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meghan

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Any suggestions on reasons and a solution here would be appreciated. The marm larvae (some are beginning to morph) will only eat brine shrimp. They aren't interested in the least with the live blackworms or thawed bloodworms. I'm making sure the blackworms are chopped small enough. This is getting very aggravating as I feel I'm doing something wrong. I held off on giving them bbs thinking they'd get hungry enough to eat the blackworms but to no avail. I finally gave in last night and gave them brine shrimp. They went from stick thin to rounded bellies off the brine shrimp. Obviously they can't live off of bbs exclusively after they morph. I'm doing my best to prevent any deaths at this point. Has anyone else with marms experienced this?
 
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Hi Meghan,
I like using baby brine shrimp for larvae salamanders and newts. For axolotls I use it till they are big enough to eat salmon pellets. The problem with newts or salamanders that want to go on land is you have to feed them something else when they go to land.
I try to introduce blackworms early to animals that will be crawling on land. If you back off on the brine shrimp and feed chopped blackworms along with them the larvae should switch over. If you wait to long you are stuck with what might be problem feeders on land. Hopefully the larvae will have a feeding response to a small amount of brine shrimp and move on to the blackworms. I also feed new metamorphs springtails, fruit flies, fruit fly larvae, and chopped small earthworms.
 
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jennifer

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I would say feed both for a week or so. The bbs die after an hour, but the chopped blackworms stay alive. The larvae will get hungry enough to start munching the blackworms during the remaining 23 hours of the day. They will get used to the blackworms, keep trying.
 
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