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is it ok to feed fruit flys to axolotl larvea
and weevils to adults i have absoloutly no problem finding these
 
Can't think of a reason why not. But I don't know if your larvae would eat them initially; you might need to wait until they were past the brine shrimp/daphnia stage. Hopefully someone who's actually raised some will reply to you, as I haven't. :p.
 
Hi Waterpuppy,

This article provides a list of foods appropriate for caudata and it also advises that fruit flies are not appropriate for aquatic caudata.

http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/foods.shtml

Fruit flies are not very nutricious and would escape before larvae could catch them I think, not to mention the size of the fly compared to the larvae.

I would suggest you read these articles carefully if considering rearing larvae:

http://www.axolotl.org/rearing.htm
http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/microfoods.shtml

Do you have any larvae?

Cheers Jacq.
 
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