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How would you fatten up an axy thats still on blood worms?
 
With live black worms if they are small or earth worms if they can take them. From reading your other post, if it is 3 months I'd go for the black worms. Axies love those, not sure if yours have had them yet. There is one little cheeky lotl that I've met who won't eat anything else :)
 
As they are still so little I would be feeding them little and often, probably three meals a day of you can. It is rather difficult and expensive to get black worms over here.

Do you have ice blocks that go in a cool bag? Could you put the tubs in a box on top of the ice blocks? It should keep the water cool, without cooling it so much they loose their appetite. If you can do that then put some live daphnia in the tubs with them so they can eat as they wish without spoiling the water.
 
Keep them in temps less than 75 F. Feed them salmon pellets and earthworms all day every day. They'll get fat, in a good way.
 
Thank you for all the help :)
 
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