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Question: Regurgitates worm

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Hello, i'm newbi of this forum.

I have a couple of axolotl. The female regurgitates earthworms ! Why this ? She eats any other tipe of food ( at least for chironomus, trout and bloodworms ), but she doesn't eat this basic food.

I post also a video to explain the situation. She She really seems to regurgitates the worms !


Ps : i cut the worms before feed she, but this isn't the solution.


Bye, thanks for answers!

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Your video doesn't work.

How often do you feed them? Regurgitation is almost always a case of over-feeding.
 
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Did you see her spit out the worm? Are you sure the worms are small enough? Feeding food that's too big can cause regurgitation too.
 
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Probably the worm was too big! I feed her today whit the same worms and she eats without problems!
 
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My axie did this after I accidentally dropped an entire worm into his feeding tank and he snapped it up before I could do anything. Naive as I was, I thought this meant he was big enough to be able to eat them whole.

Nope.

Don't get me wrong; Godric was perfectly happy to gobble up two or three whole worms... which he regurgitated later that night.

For my case, it was definitely a double-whammy of over feeding and the food being too big. For your girl, you might just want to try cutting the worm up for her. I suggest bites that are a little smaller than the width of her head. Try that out, and if it works then hurrah!
 
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I agree, I think you just need to feed her smaller sized worms. If she spits it out, cut it smaller and try again until she can get it down.
 
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