Biting off more then they can chew

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Today is day one of chopped blackworms(
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yippie) and the waltl larvea are eating them like crazy...or at least they are really giving it a good try. It seems I did not chop them enough, and now it looks like a war of attrition going on down there, larvea on one end, worm on the other, both just going for it. A few worms were unfortunate enough to have a larvea at BOTH ends (now if I could get a picture of that). I do now have some concern, quite a bit actaully, that the little guys will kill themselves trying to swallow these worms, as they are not "biting the ends off". Is this likley? I am not going to start trying to remove the worms from their tiny little mouths unless I absoloutly have to...
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(Message edited by newtsrfun on October 01, 2006)
 
Hello Jeff
I always had great results feeding larvas the little organism that are about the size of the period at the end of a sentence found in ponds for the first 10 days or so.
After that is when I started to feed them things like black worms.
It has been my experience that if I try to feed them chopped black worms earlier than state above many of them had a very hard time swallowing the black worms and some of them choke to death!
Hopefully that will not happen to any of your larvas!
Good luck!
 
My guys are about 1 month old now and are just getting back leg buds.
 
Jeff at one month old you should not have to worry much about them choking to death!
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They should do fine with the chopped black worms!
Best wishes to you and your little guys!
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