Sand too large?

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So I fed my little axolotl today and noticed that he picks up a lot of sand as he's eating. Then I noticed his sand was a bit bigger and less fine than the sand in my larger tank, is sand this size likely to hurt him? I don't want any impaction to happen, he's about 19cm long but most of that is his tail, he's only half the body size of my other two :(

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Hi there, I would think that yes your sand is a little too big for him to be 100% safe from impaction.

You should try to get something much finer to avoid problems. In the meantime, to avoid swallowing too much sand/gravel, you could try using a feeding jar, there are many threads on here relating to jars for feeding, I use them for my 2 little guys and it has saved a lot of mess and worry about them eating sand.:happy:
 
Jen10s said:
Hi there, I would think that yes your sand is a little too big for him to be 100% safe from impaction.

You should try to get something much finer to avoid problems. In the meantime, to avoid swallowing too much sand/gravel, you could try using a feeding jar, there are many threads on here relating to jars for feeding, I use them for my 2 little guys and it has saved a lot of mess and worry about them eating sand.:happy:
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Thanks :) I've just got him a new tank so I'll get new, finer sand for that. In the meantime I'll try the feeding jar 'till his 2foot is done cycling :)
 
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