Our lass has just transfered a load of fish out of her smaller tank and now wants some red belly or fire belly or whatever ya call em. What are they like from peoples experience?
Red Belly Newts
- Thread starter Micky_Fahaka
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I have a breeding colony of red belly newts
and the fav foods are live or frozen bloodworm
and live daphnia.If you live somewhere warm
stick an old container outside full of old tank water.
This will attract all the insects to lay in the water
and your newts get free food!!!
and the fav foods are live or frozen bloodworm
and live daphnia.If you live somewhere warm
stick an old container outside full of old tank water.
This will attract all the insects to lay in the water
and your newts get free food!!!
They love bloodworms as mentioned above. Tank must be very well sealed or you will have little newts not where they are supposed to be. I had one crawl out once, and I almost stepped on as it was walking across the floor, but my wife screamed "STOP! NEWT! FLOOR!" I looked down and sure enough a dried out, but still walking newt. The tank was sealed well enough for just about any fish, but not for him.
Bless! Thanks for that, I think we'll end up with some before the weeks out...I cant wait to set the tank up and make the platform etc..!
I have a paddletail newt (pachytriton labiatus) which is a much larger newt. He will take down earthworms, and any other worm that is smaller.
To feed them, look into indoor composting with redworms. I have a 10 gal. rubbermaid with 1/4" holes driled along the boarder of the top and the bottom. I then fill the tup with moist paper shreder shredings and a few dozen worms. Put vegitable composte (not too much and never meat) in the tup and they will eat it and breed. When the papershreds are all used up remove it (leaving the worms) and use it as fertalizer. This will produce all the redworms your newts can eat.
We really enjoy our fire belly newt; mom says he has a puppy dog face. He is very sociable and comes out to say "hi"and "feed me" whenever someone stops by his tank to say hi. He has surprised all of us by living so long; by our estimates he is at least 7 years old and still going strong. He did manage to get out one time, my little brother found him walking in the halway covered with fuzz and half way dried up, but a little bath and TLC got him back in shape.