I'm currently raising about ten Alpine newt (apuanus) larvae and everything's going well, but my goodness can they eat! They get two net fulls of live daphnia/mosqueto larvae mix, along with frozen bloodworm and the occasional tiny chopped worm daily and their bellies are visibly bulging and yet they still frequently rip each others legs or tails off and eat them! I've raised C.pyrrho larvae for the past two years and they seemed like gentle creatures, I certainly never saw this level of gluttony and cannibalism!
So basically what I want to know is:
Is it possible to overfeed them? Not from a fouling the water point of view as they swallow everything!
Can they digest everything they eat in a day, or do they just carry on swallowing stuff and pass what they don't digest as waste?
Is it normal for them to be so cannibalistic, even when they are obviously well fed?
So basically what I want to know is:
Is it possible to overfeed them? Not from a fouling the water point of view as they swallow everything!
Can they digest everything they eat in a day, or do they just carry on swallowing stuff and pass what they don't digest as waste?
Is it normal for them to be so cannibalistic, even when they are obviously well fed?