Crickets or mealworms are good staple foods. Tiger salamanders can also eat earth worms, dubia roaches, and wax worms.
[header] How to feed a tiger salamander [title] Buy food for the tiger salamander. [step] Tiger salamanders eat insects only, occasionally pinky mice (recommended for larger salamanders only, and also as a treat. Pinky mice can make your tiger obese and it can get sick).