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Question: Switching Food Types

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gfsward

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Ok, so my baby axies are starting to grow their back legs and still feeding on brine shrimp. I've tried feeding them salamander pellets and frozen bloodworms but they won't go after them. I'm wondering if they're still too young for that type of food or if I'm doing it wrong? What stage, or age, do they usually start switching away from brine shrimp.
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I changes from BBS to frozen bloodworms and live blackworms when the babies had their back legs. I use to mix up some earthworms(cut small of course), bloodworms with some blackworms so it looked like everything was moving, then slowly added more bloodworm than blackworm. When they left me they would eat cut up earthworm, bloodworm and blackworms no problem.
 
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We did something similar, weaning them off brine shrimp by adding both the brine shrimp and the bloodworms at the same time. The greedy ones would grab the bloodworms (more food!) :) Once it looked like everyone was comfortably eating bloodworms, we stopped the brine shrimp.
 
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that makes a lot of sense and sounds like it would work like a dream :)
thank you :)
Btw, Zaria, I'll be posting some pics soon of how the little guys you sent me are turning out :D
 
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