Axolotls will eat live food but can easily become conditioned to eating more convenient pellet food. ... Live Tubifex worms can also be part of the diet during this transition stage.

Diet: Despite their ... they hunt for food using a suction technique. While suctioning up food, gravel may also get inhaled, which helps grind up food in its belly. Habitat: The axolotl is lentic, ...

THE fact that a diet of mammalian thyroid will induce frog-tadpoles to metamorphose precociously into the adult form is now well established. ... Metamorphosis of Axolotl caused by Thyroid-feeding.

Although plenty of axolotls are bred in captivity for scientific research and, in some places, food, they are on the brink of extinction in Xochimilco, their only natural habitat.

Axolotls are capable of biting food items and giving any neighboring tank fellows a nip if they get too close. There is also some suggestion they can remove limbs and indulge in a spot of ...

The only way to save and study the wild axolotl, Dr. Zambrano and his colleagues determined, was to promote a renaissance of ancestral farming practices, and then convert segments of the farmers ...