Why are some of my ASF's eating poop? I just noticed that one of my tanks had less poop in it then it should,because today is cleaning day. Well I sat back and watched, and some of the moms are eating poop!!!! YUCKO!

Then I saw one of the moms in another tank doing the same thing! I feed Mazuri 6f and occasionaly carrots. I use food hoppers so they NEVER run out of food... they also never run out of water. All the moms seen doing this are currently nursing litters.

They seem perfectly normal and healthy. In fact, the tank where almost all of the poop has been eaten has much fatter / bigger looking babies! I know they are healthy. Since I started breeding asf's months ago, not a single ASF has died... other then the ones that were fed off of course!