Originally Posted by dwhatley
I did find that, as the eggs were closer to hatching, only dead food would be accepted
That is why I was wondering about the atrophy in the squid tentacles. My original WC merc would eat live if I attached it to a tube and bothered her with it, then she started to refuse and I froze the crabs and offered them dead. Later she started pushing them away but would take dead shrimp directly from my fingers and not the wiggling air line. Her daughter refused the live sooner but would take hand fed shrimp almost daily (both pooped regularly so I know they were actually eating the shrimp).
I did find that, as the eggs were closer to hatching, only dead food would be accepted
Steve O'Shea;124481 said:This is very interesting!
That is why I was wondering about the atrophy in the squid tentacles. My original WC merc would eat live if I attached it to a tube and bothered her with it, then she started to refuse and I froze the crabs and offered them dead. Later she started pushing them away but would take dead shrimp directly from my fingers and not the wiggling air line. Her daughter refused the live sooner but would take hand fed shrimp almost daily (both pooped regularly so I know they were actually eating the shrimp).