Feeding 8 day-olds white worms?

[tigmades]

I'm not overly happy with how many brine shrimp are hatching. It's always a pain to separate them from eggs, and there never seems to be enough that hatch even though I've 54 of these newborns, and am using a slightly heaping teaspoon of bbs eggs.

I ordered some decapsulated bbs eggs and my daphnia eggs have yet to hatch, so I tried some of the white worm culture I was given with my kidlets.

A chunk of them actually tackle the worms, a number of them swim away from the wriggling mass... I think the adults are too long, for one of the axies grabbed it, and half of it is sticking out of its mouth. The axie has it in a death grip and won't let it go... will it eventually drown and the axie will finish eating it? It's been a good 5 minutes and it refuses to spit the worm out...

I was thinking of using the white worms (chopped) instead of bbs until my decapsulated ones arrive... should this be alright? I read that they lack carotenes, but carotenes aren't too important to axies, are they?

 

[Jennewt]

Yes, whiteworms are fine. I wouldn't recommend chopping them. Just use them whole, then remove the ones that were too big for the axies.

 

[tigmades]

Yes, whiteworms are fine. I wouldn't recommend chopping them. Just use them whole, then remove the ones that were too big for the axies.

Could you please tell me why you don't recommend me chopping them? My hatchlings are only ~3/4" long and they won't actually eat any of the full sized ones unless I managed to find babies in the small culture I have. My bbs hatchery wasn't producing enough bbs (even with 2 hatcheries going).