Joshuats99
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Hello all,
I'm new here and relatively new to keeping Caudata. I've kept slimy salamanders, a cave salamander, a red backed salamander, and I raised an eastern newt larva to adult but ended up giving him to a friend. Anyway, I ordered three Alpine Newt Efts and they'll be arriving on Tuesday. I've done plenty of research and I'm just really nervous and excited so I wanted to get some opinions here. Especially seeing as I couldn't find anything on alpine newt efts specifically(other than a paragraph in Reptiles magazine), has anyone raised these efts and would you recommend going the paper towel and simple hide route or the more somewhat natural route. I've already made a setup with primarily cocofiber and some sphagnum moss with some dead leaves on top, based off of this post: http://www.caudata.org/forum/f1173-...mus-taricha/86619-caring-very-small-efts.html
Should I change that and make it dirt like in the post? And I know his post is for a very different group of newts, that's why I didn't use dirt. And after all this, they'll probably be fine. The seller tells me they're already eating so I figure I'll get them to eat fine as well. Thanks in advance.
(P.S. I found out about the new ban right after ordering them. I'm going to do everything I can to help get it changed, but I'll still be getting them just in time.)
I'm new here and relatively new to keeping Caudata. I've kept slimy salamanders, a cave salamander, a red backed salamander, and I raised an eastern newt larva to adult but ended up giving him to a friend. Anyway, I ordered three Alpine Newt Efts and they'll be arriving on Tuesday. I've done plenty of research and I'm just really nervous and excited so I wanted to get some opinions here. Especially seeing as I couldn't find anything on alpine newt efts specifically(other than a paragraph in Reptiles magazine), has anyone raised these efts and would you recommend going the paper towel and simple hide route or the more somewhat natural route. I've already made a setup with primarily cocofiber and some sphagnum moss with some dead leaves on top, based off of this post: http://www.caudata.org/forum/f1173-...mus-taricha/86619-caring-very-small-efts.html
Should I change that and make it dirt like in the post? And I know his post is for a very different group of newts, that's why I didn't use dirt. And after all this, they'll probably be fine. The seller tells me they're already eating so I figure I'll get them to eat fine as well. Thanks in advance.
(P.S. I found out about the new ban right after ordering them. I'm going to do everything I can to help get it changed, but I'll still be getting them just in time.)