Anyone keeping Notophthalmus viridescens?

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Hello all. Just wondering if anyone is keeping this species and what your tank conditions are as far as things like pH, conductivity, temp. range, etc.? I have some indirect experience with these guys and am planning on adding a few to my "zoo" at home once I have the conditions set up and stable. Also, I like to have a bit of variety in the diets of my animals so any menus that people would like to post would be great too. Any advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance...
 
I do not currently keep this species, but I have in the past. A lot depends on getting healthy specimens. I had some that lived with me for around 20 years, and others that died within a year or so. Beyond that, I would say that there is some evidence that they don't like hard alkaline water.

Will you be getting aquatic adults, or efts? Food choices depend on this, and on size. For some ideas, see:
http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/foods.shtml
 
I keep these and have in the past, I have found that they aren't too demanding as far as conditions go, just read the article that Roy linked. I think that they are pretty easy to keep and beautiful as well. I have always fed them a main diet of earthworms and small grubs, I will probably try some blackworms now that I am raising larvae. In the past I have fed them "newt bites" (even though they were wild caught) but now I don't anymore because they make a mess of the water if the newts don't don't eat them, and mine don't eat them. I am raising adults though, the efts (juveniles) need smaller foods (or more finely chopped earthworms haha).

I have heard that people have problems with parasites with these newts, but as of yet I have not experienced this (hopefully I never will).

Good luck to you and your future newts.
 
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