Ensicauda popei and ensicauda nominant

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Just a few individuals as of lately I’ve amassed a large colony of sword tails both popei and the nominant,any tips on terrestrial to aquatic transition on young ?
 

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Read the thread I posted recently. I just transitioned some to the water. One of them took weeks while the others just a few days. 1.2.0 Cynops Ensicauda Popei new adults adjusting to water help.

You're doing the right thing, just keep them in an aquarium with water that's 1 to 1.5 times high as their length. Put something that floats for them in the beginning but start making it smaller and smaller to force them slowly into the water. Have a lot of plants floating around as well so that they are partially in the water when they're trying to rest on land.

From my understanding, when they are terrestrial, their skin hasn't not adapted the ability to absorb a little bit of oxygen in the water. The only way the acclimate is by getting wet and continuously shedding their skin over and over again and each time they shed their skin in water the better the new skin gets at absorbing water.

My Newts now sleep underwater. I actually haven't seen them use their floating corkbarks I made for them at all for a few weeks now.
 
VentureBro said:
Read the thread I posted recently. I just transitioned some to the water. One of them took weeks while the others just a few days. 1.2.0 Cynops Ensicauda Popei new adults adjusting to water help.

You're doing the right thing, just keep them in an aquarium with water that's 1 to 1.5 times high as their length. Put something that floats for them in the beginning but start making it smaller and smaller to force them slowly into the water. Have a lot of plants floating around as well so that they are partially in the water when they're trying to rest on land.

From my understanding, when they are terrestrial, their skin hasn't not adapted the ability to absorb a little bit of oxygen in the water. The only way the acclimate is by getting wet and continuously shedding their skin over and over again and each time they shed their skin in water the better the new skin gets at absorbing water.

My Newts now sleep underwater. I actually haven't seen them use their floating corkbarks I made for them at all for a few weeks now.
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Perfect the popei have taken to the water amazingly,the regular swordtails are the indviuals that are giving me the issue ,the breeder I received them from raises them terrestrially
 
MidMichiganNewts said:
Perfect the popei have taken to the water amazingly,the regular swordtails are the indviuals that are giving me the issue ,the breeder I received them from raises them terrestrially
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I think it should work on them as well. They're essentially the same Newt, their genetics only differ slightly.

You just have to go acclimate them slowly by making them going from having land to a bit of water and then slowly transition that to being the opposite.

The newts I got were 100% terrestrial at the time.
 
VentureBro said:
I think it should work on them as well. They're essentially the same Newt, their genetics only differ slightly.

You just have to go acclimate them slowly by making them going from having land to a bit of water and then slowly transition that to being the opposite.

The newts I got were 100% terrestrial at the time.
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I’m aware i think you may have missed the point 😊,I’m doing these methods with them as well and they aren’t taking however the popei did ,looking for a different option
 
MidMichiganNewts said:
I’m aware i think you may have missed the point 😊,I’m doing these methods with them as well and they aren’t taking however the popei did ,looking for a different option
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Well how long have you been doing it for?
 
MidMichiganNewts said:
I believe it’s coming up on about four weeks now,I was thinking of switching them into a moss bed and slowly flooding it
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It took 4 weeks for one of the boy for me and yes for a week I did do the moss bed with him. Then forced him back into the tank.

When they are on their floating piece of land are they staying wet? My corkbark has a bunch of moss on it so they were still wet and soaked with water on land. This helped their skin shed and change.

I kept the water at 70-72F not sure if that helps.
 
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You can see on this floating piece of cork there is a bunch of moss and the one on the back left. That is the one that didn't want to go in the water, but he would always be wet because of the Moss. I believe that helped him transition since his skin did shed and and started to look more wet. I see in the photos that you're sharing your nominal ones look pretty dry. Are they like that now? When you go take a look at them?
 
No all have slick moistened skin now ,that picture was after a tank change they say in a rubber ware for a moment,I think I’m going to just try the same method again for a longer period of time ,works on all my other species
 
MidMichiganNewts said:
No all have slick moistened skin now ,that picture was after a tank change they say in a rubber ware for a moment,I think I’m going to just try the same method again for a longer period of time ,works on all my other species
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Yeah, I think you're doing the right thing. I was in a panic, I thought the boy would starve himself to death from being overly stressed. I was so relieved when I saw him decide to finally hop in for the first time.

I know other people give much tougher love by just giving them plants only and nothing else to float on. I wonder if they had any losses.
 
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