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What are an axolotls prey?

Updated: 10/8/2023
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In captivity, axolotls eat a variety of readily available foods, including trout and salmon pellets, frozen or live bloodworms, earthworms, and waxworms.
They eat mollusks, fishes, insects, worms and other amphibians.

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Well, the Axolotls are critically endangered because some nonnative fish (nonnative to the axolotls' waters in Mexico) are eating they're young. Some of these fish are the African Tilapia, and Asian Carp. They are eating the axolotls' main sources of food. I hope this, at least, half answered your question.
Predatory birds.
Birds and large fish, however normally the axolotl can live for up to 25 years although the average axolotl rarely gets much older than the age of 15. May I add that axolotl's is considered to be a critically endangered species
well alot of things eat a axolotl like crocodile,turtel frogs,and some fish
Their natural predators are birds (such as storks) and large fish. But their unnatural predators are humans. In Mexico, axolotls are caught and sold as food, or as pets kept in artificial aquarium homes.

(Axolotls are aquatic salamanders that can range from 6 to 18 inches in length.)

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Axolotls are aactually meant to be at the top of their food chain. They eat whatever they can find including, if they're very hungry, each other until they become adults, when they stop being cannibals. They were a staple food source for the ancient Aztects and are now eaten by Mexicans as a delicacy (but there are so few left in the wild they only live in one lake, Lake Xolchimilco). Because of invasive species like Carp and Pike brought to the lake illegally, however, they are now also eaten by some invasive species.

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blood worms (midge larvae), black worms, white worms, grindel worms

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They eat almost anything they can catch. Dead and live fish, insects, crustacea, larvae etc.

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many things! mostly bloodworms, pellets and small fish.

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