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frozen worms? or live?

findi

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Eartworms are easy to breed, if you cannot find small ones commercially....main drawback is temperature, most species do best in a cool basement-type area, below 19 C if possible. Set them up in a screen-topped plastic garbage can with alternating layers of dead leaves and topsoil, cover surface with dead leaves and add some cornmeal/fish food flakes below this every so often and you should have plenty of young in no time.

Re freezing, veterinarians are split as to the "pain " factor...until recently...view was always that ectotherms enter a hibrernation-like state and then die, currently most do not favor it, however. Invertebrates definitely operate on a "different plane" than us, re pain, however......crickets feed readily within minutes of having had their rear legs pinched off (to keep them in a food bowl), sharks disembowled by others in a feeding frenzy themselves go on feeding - "happily enough", it seems...and so on.

Axolotls will do quite well on a diet composed largely of non-living food items - I've had great success with commercial trout chow.... Reptomin Food Sticks also useful, add to this an occassion al earthworm, small live fish, cricket. Blackworms are earthworm relatives, can be fed whole and are a great food source as well.

I have a number of amphibian/reptile husbandry and natural history articles posted at
http://blogs.thatpetplace.com/thatreptileblog, in case you'd like to read a bit more.

Good luck, Frank Indiviglio
 
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