Firebelly Newt Tadpole Care

[ceeej31]

About a month or so ago I got two Cynops orientalis at a reptile expo. I wasn't sure on the sexes when I got them but it looked like 1.1. One of them (the possible male) was very skinny at first but has since filled out nicely. The other (the possible female) had a very healthy weight; almost to the point that it looked obese.

I have been keeping them in a very simple 2.5 gallon tank with a small driftwood haulout, fine gravel, a patch of duckweed, and some java fern and moss. this setup was intended to be temporary until I could make space in a ten gallon for them.

Now for the good part. Last night when I checked on them I noticed something strange picking through the gravel, as I looked closer I realized it was a tadpole! A closer looked revealed two more healthy tadpoles hiding in the java moss each about a centimeter long. I guess I had a pair after all.

I need help figuring out what I'm going to do with these little guys. I've read the care sheets on caudata.org so and I am confident that I will be able to successfully raise them but I was wondering if anyone here had any first hand experience that might help me out.

Thanks in advance.

 

[snakefin]

You should follow the caudata caresheets, if I remember the parents eat the tads and the tads are pretty hard to raise supposedly.

 

[predfish]

i was reading somewhere u can feed tads goldfish flakes and blood worms when they get older

 

[ceeej31]

You should follow the caudata caresheets, if I remember the parents eat the tads and the tads are pretty hard to raise supposedly.

i was reading somewhere u can feed tads goldfish flakes and blood worms when they get older

Thanks to both of you, i will be sure to keep these in mind.

 

[kearth]

Seperate the out as soon as you can. The parents will eat them

You better start culturing daphnia and brine shrimp now before they starve.

They need live food for the first few weeks to month of their life.

Good luck to you with them.

 

[ceeej31]

Seperate the out as soon as you can. The parents will eat them

You better start culturing daphnia and brine shrimp now before they starve.

They need live food for the first few weeks to month of their life.

Good luck to you with them.

Thanks, would live blackworms be too big because I have easy access to those.