TJ
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I've finally got my C.e.p juvies "trained" to feed on frozen bloodworm cubes dropped into the tank corner (rather than needing to be fed individually by hand). For some reason, this didn't work months before when I tried it with them.
I drop one 3-gram cube into the corner of the tank and it just "disappears" completely within a few hours. Of course, I do check to ensure all juvies have eaten (which is pretty easy to tell since their bellies fill out). All 34 of them, aged 8-12 months (?), have been successfully feeding this way for over a week now.
I wonder if this is something the juvies have to learn. In the initial stage, I had trouble getting them to eat hand-fed bloodworm and had to rely on pinhead crickets. They subsequently either learned to eat bloodworm fed by hand or I myself simply mastered the technique.
Has anybody had their juvies naturally take to hand-feeding in the initial post-morph phase or does it always take a while, months even, to accustom them to it? Has anybody successfully fed their juvies the way I'm feeding mine now (food regularly dropped in fixed location) in the initial post-morph phase?
The reason I'm wondering this is that I have dozens and dozens of C.e.p larvae now on the verge of morphing (3 have already)!
I've heard they'll eat bloodworm all on their own if it's placed right on front of them or if they're kept individually in small containers on moist towels, but I have neither the time nor the space to maintain dozens more containers.
Tim
(sorry, but I guess it's too late at this stage to switch this post to the Newt and Salamander Help forum)
I drop one 3-gram cube into the corner of the tank and it just "disappears" completely within a few hours. Of course, I do check to ensure all juvies have eaten (which is pretty easy to tell since their bellies fill out). All 34 of them, aged 8-12 months (?), have been successfully feeding this way for over a week now.
I wonder if this is something the juvies have to learn. In the initial stage, I had trouble getting them to eat hand-fed bloodworm and had to rely on pinhead crickets. They subsequently either learned to eat bloodworm fed by hand or I myself simply mastered the technique.
Has anybody had their juvies naturally take to hand-feeding in the initial post-morph phase or does it always take a while, months even, to accustom them to it? Has anybody successfully fed their juvies the way I'm feeding mine now (food regularly dropped in fixed location) in the initial post-morph phase?
The reason I'm wondering this is that I have dozens and dozens of C.e.p larvae now on the verge of morphing (3 have already)!
I've heard they'll eat bloodworm all on their own if it's placed right on front of them or if they're kept individually in small containers on moist towels, but I have neither the time nor the space to maintain dozens more containers.
Tim
(sorry, but I guess it's too late at this stage to switch this post to the Newt and Salamander Help forum)
