ali
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Hey guys. I've just started chaning the feeding habits of my taricha granulosa. I have one that is quite larger than the other (although both feed with equal agression!).
I formerly fed them in separate feeding dishes so as not to have left over food all over the tanks, and I was worried about their size differences.
I don't feed bloodworms very often now, they normally only eat chopped nightcrawlers, so I've moved to feeding them in their tank using a feeding dish.
They're used to me pointing their food out to them (sometimes waving it over their mouth) with a turkey baster and don't seem to understand that there is a pile of worms beneath them in the feeding dish. Should I continue to point it out to them or let them discover it (hopefully) on their own?
Also, they got SO excited when they realized it was feeding time that they went into amplexus, a rather fierce amplexus which was a two newt mating ball. Shortly after, while quite obviously trying to viciously attack a worm, my larger taricha ended up with the entire leg of my younger taricha in his mouth. I tapped him on his side with the turkey baster and he let go. Do you think I should go back to feeding them how I was? Or let them get used to this new method and just watch closely until things go well?
I formerly fed them in separate feeding dishes so as not to have left over food all over the tanks, and I was worried about their size differences.
I don't feed bloodworms very often now, they normally only eat chopped nightcrawlers, so I've moved to feeding them in their tank using a feeding dish.
They're used to me pointing their food out to them (sometimes waving it over their mouth) with a turkey baster and don't seem to understand that there is a pile of worms beneath them in the feeding dish. Should I continue to point it out to them or let them discover it (hopefully) on their own?
Also, they got SO excited when they realized it was feeding time that they went into amplexus, a rather fierce amplexus which was a two newt mating ball. Shortly after, while quite obviously trying to viciously attack a worm, my larger taricha ended up with the entire leg of my younger taricha in his mouth. I tapped him on his side with the turkey baster and he let go. Do you think I should go back to feeding them how I was? Or let them get used to this new method and just watch closely until things go well?