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Question: What to do with floating larvae?

helobed

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Hey,
At the moment I have an odd 350 larvae in my care (about 2 weeks old) and I have just found 3 floating upside down, still alive, at the surface of their containers. It looks like they have air bubbles in their digestive tract, but they also have some food in there??? I thought this only happened when they don't eat (I have been feeding them all chopped blackworms)

I have transferred them so a shallow tub with some worms in there for them, but what would you all recommend I do? so far I have only had 2 deaths and would like to keep it that way. can they be saved?

Thanks in advance
 
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One of my babies had a floating but a few days ago. Lasted maybe 20 hours now it's back to normal.. No special care needed. Hope yours are fine too! :)
 
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Oh, cool
looks like they're not all floaty anymore and just back to being plain awesome :D
 
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I've seen it on my babies as well. They sometimes gulp too much air and swallow it. They end up floating but then they'll burp/poop it out and they're back to normal. I haven't done anything about it and they were all okay :D
 
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350?? You have got your work cut out! I have 21 and that is hard enough. Good luck!! ;)
 
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mine doo it too! I find a water change usually clears it up so it must be an oxygen thing for me. There has been one or two that have swallowed air and insist on floating, but they usually sink in a few days. If you are feeding BBS dont worry... they still manage to eat somehow.
 
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laalflaach said:
350?? You have got your work cut out! I have 21 and that is hard enough. Good luck!! ;)
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Ha ha it's not as hard as it would seem - my first batch was over 1000 so I have plenty of methods to cope with the babies this time round.

... They are really distracting though. I'm off to do some important job have a quick glance at the babies and 30mins later wonder what i was going to do originally??? Doesn't help that they're scattered everywhere. Gah! i need blinkers or something.
 
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