

I also use fish eggs I get from catfish I catch during their spring spawn. Two new microsporidia, Anostracospora rigaudi n. I feed my Axies a mixed diet of chopped earth worms, gutloaded crickets, little balls of black worms ,very thin strips of raw catfish meat and pellets. Current literature data for bee bread is overshadowed by bee pollen, particularly of honeybee Apis. I also didn't start feeding them crickets until they reached 5 inches. Stingless bee-collected pollen (bee bread) is a mixture of bee pollen, bee salivary enzymes, and regurgitated honey, fermented by indigenous microbes during storage in the cerumen pot. A gutloaded criket is a great wat to get vitamins and calcium into your Axie.
GUT LOADING BRINE SHRIMP BEE POLLEN BENEFITS PLUS
yolk plus pollen, brine shrimp (Artemia). Brine shrimp (Artemia parthenogenetica) has an important role in the energy flow through trophic levels in different seawater systems. compared the benefits of brine shrimp eggs (cysts) plus moist bee pollen versus natural. I feed my Axies crickets a couple times a month and have never had any problems. Microplastics (MPs) are ubiquitous in the aquatic environment and can be frequently ingested by zooplankton, leading to various effects. I also feed crickets kale and collard greens which are loaded with vitamins. I feed mine scambled eggs with crushed bee pollen, blue green algae, and rep cal mix. nematocysts to capture a small crustacean like a brine shrimp.

Cricket nutritional value comes from what they eat. mouth is the sole opening to the gut cavity, which means hydra take in food and get rid. Adding vitamins/selcon might be enough, but it tends to coat the brine shrimp as opposed to them ingesting the vitamins/selcon in question. Unless they are gutloaded they are useless. So in order to gut load brine shrimp, you have to get the brine shrimp nauplii to develop mouths. Now what is wrong with crickets you might ask. These have hard heads compared to crickets. Axolotls also would eat small native fish. All of these have much harder shells than soft bodied crickets. So what is left for Axolotls to eat the rest of the time? Water insects like water boatman, drangonfly larvae, aquatic isopods and land insects that fall ino the water. The vegetal origin can vary greatly, depending on the landscape and the season (Lau et al., 2019). Bee pollen is defined as the agglutination of flower pollen, nectar, and honeybee salivary substances. They don't live in water and are only there by accident. Elena Azzini, in Bee Products and Their Applications in the Food and Pharmaceutical Industries, 2022. Earthworms enter streams and other bodies of water after heavy rains. In the wild Axolotls are not eating huge amounts of earthworms like they do in captivity. Indigenous trade of medicinal plants in South Africa is a multi-million-rand industry and is still highly relevant in terms of primary health care. If you can feed a Tiger Salamander crickets without harm there is no reason a Axolotl couldn't eat them. Honestly I don't see why so many people are against crickets.
