Question: Live earhworms

Hi all
So iv decided to start using live food, aka earthworms, so i can hand feed my axie. I read that they have to be the right size. My axie is about 5"s, so what sort of size would be appropriate? The ones i just got out of my front garden are quite big so i snipped one in half. I felt awful tho because it was writhing!!! Do they feel pain? How do u get over it? Or am i just soft? Lol. When snipped though, a load of gunk and slime came out. Is this safe for the axie? Not poisenous or anything? Obvs i would wash under water to get rid of the soil n stuff. All advice, as always, is muchly appriciated none of my local petshops know much about them, so i trust you guys a hell of a lot more than them!! Thanks x

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I'm actually wondering the same thing about size. I bought worms from the LPS that are intended as angle worms (Canadian Nightcrawlers and something labeled just as Angle Worms) and they were various sizes. I believe I've been feeding the Angle Worms which looked smaller when I put them in the bin, but I've noticed that when I stick them in water to clean them they'll stretch to about five times the original length. Either way, my axie doesn't seem to be having any problems getting them down, but I could see not wanting to choke a younger one with worms that are much too large.

I think my assumption would be...try to cut them in pieces that aren't too much wider than your axie's head BEFORE the worm stretches out, but that's more what I've been going by with mine since I'm not exactly sure myself.

I think thats a good way to look at it. Although, the worm i ended up giving him, i didnt chop it, and it was quite big. Not quite as big as him stretched, and he went for it almost straight away. It took him a while to eat it, and he just kept hold of it foe about 5 mins before polishing it off im going to go get some from lps, but will try getting smaller ones for now. Those were what i found in my garden x

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