Feeding hatchling corn snakes

[uting]

African Clawed frogs are fully-aquatic so why feed a land dwelling animal fully-aquatic frogs and besides why waste a nice African Clawed frog when you can feed pinkies to your Corn Snake.

 

[micstarz]

Alright. Thanks.

Well ACF's are cheaper and I can gutload them and keep them alive longer...$1.2 usd for four where pinkies are like 60 cents for 1...

 

[coura]

No no...I meant that corn snakes in Hong Kong are all shipped （CB) from the States...

I might breed my Cynops. It's a big hassle for me with so much stuff going on (online stuff, raising a cuttle, snakes, setting up a 15 gallon, a series of exams, feeding and maintaining everything else I've got set up...heck, I don't even have the time for breeding bettas and guppies!

I'm not sure whether the newts are WC or CB actually.

Clues that hint WC:

The asian newts (Pachy, Para and Cynops) cost like $1.25 USD while foreign caudates like axolotls and tiger sals cost liek $100 usd

The simple cheapness of newts could mean WC

Factors hinting at CB:
The neverending supply of newts which are all the same size
The Cynops readily accept pellet foods (Pachys and Paras don't)
I've heard of some breeders in mainland China, I think.


So I don't know, but one thing I'm sure of;

Perhaps I could breed, but it wouldn't help the pet trade in any way...a batch of however many newts I could take months to raise would only be replacing a fraction of the weekly or monthly shipment of hundreds of new newts...

You wouldnt be helping the pet trade at least not yet The thing is that now they are readbly avaible but that isnt shure to continue in the future with habitat destrocion and very importantly the cytric fungus. You establishing a breeding group would help in the long term, both keeping them on the planet and on the hobby. Of corse you can not compete with the pet trade numbers now, BUT you can regarding quality and a true newt entusiast will be more then willing to buy from you hardy and conservacion friendly ofspring from your adults isnted of malnorished and sickly imports. The fact that they are easy to come by is actualy good for you because you can put a nice group together. And you can simply breed them because of the amazing learnig experience that represents, nothing in the hobby like it

 

[micstarz]

The situation in Hong Kong is most demotivating...the only "newt enthusiasts" I have ever met are a guy who keeps cherry shrimp and has an axolotl (and thinks its a fish) and one of my relatives, who has a tiger salamander and only recently learned it was an amphibian...

I guess I could probaby sell to some of the smaller scale herp shops. But...
They cost $1 USD for one and $5 USD for 6...