Question: How long till one starves to death?

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This is a morbid question, but some baby axies dont seem to be eating chopped blackworms/bloodworms and are very slow growers
others seem to be doing fine and im wondering if they all eat
i stopped giving brines 3 weeks ago
if any havent eaten since, would they even still be alive?
 
Not sure how long they can go without eating, but 3 weeks seems improbable. You should be able to see if they are eating by looking at the digestive tract from below. I snapped a pretty terrible pic of my hatchlings for you to illustrate. There are 5 albinos, and one of them hasn't started eating yet. He's on the left side, between my thumb and a fat larvae, and the snail. His digestive tract is missing the brown line (yes, it's poop!) towards the end you can see in everyone else, because he hasn't been digesting anything. The one on the far right just recently started eating. You need to make sure the food is chopped small enough that the little guys can eat it. It is normal to have variable growth rates, and it is not uncommon for the difference to be extreme.
 

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