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How much food should baby axolotls have?

dudzie

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I have 40 babies, that i feed frozen bloodworms once or twice every day.
But how much food should they get each time?
should i keep on feeding them until they stop eating, or will they eat until they explode? :p

Do they look like they have eaten too much in the photos? :)


p.s. I chop the bloodworms and put them in the tank, and the axolotls find the food by them selves. So some eat more than the others.
 

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Conventional wisdom is that you can't over-feed juveniles. (You can, however, put too much food in their container and foul the water.) So, feed them as much as they:happy: want to eat. Yours look pleasantly full.
 

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Thank you �� the food is always gone after a Little while, and i do water changes every day :)
 
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