C. orientalis food

[TLaw]

I've been keeping CFB's for a year now, and I've been feeding them exclusively Hikari frozen blood worms. Tonight I was just wasting some time at a Petsmart and was peaking around inside their freezer and started thinking, should I be mixing up their diet at all? Like should I from time to time give them some frozen brine shrimp or anything like that? I remember like a year ago trying to feed reptomin bites or something like that, but they weren't having none of that, I didn't even see them take on bite.

 

[IloveMyNewts]

Oy, I have a trio of these little guys and I give mine California Blackworms. They go absolutely nuts for them! Its a lot of fun to watch them have such a strong feeding response. They also go by the name Tubiflex, but they aren't true tubiflex worms because those are allowed to be sold in California.

 

[Joost]

Yes, it's heathier for the newts, when they have more kinds of diets. Don't stuck on one kind. Also try live food as earthworms, this is the best food tou can get. The diet of all my newts is over 50% earthworms, and as a completion, i feed tubifexworms, artemia and red musquitolarvae, and daphnia as well

 

[Bowl of seeds]

I agree with joostpopei,
A varied diet is important so your newts can get nutrients from several types of food.
My C. orientalis have a staple of chopped night crawlers, and occasional black worms, slugs ( Pesticide free),Daphnia,and Mosquito larvae.
I even fed them wasp larvae from a fallen nest once (I made sure with our community here first)

In all try feeding him several different types of food and see which ones they like :happy:.

-Frank

 

[Lusiwarrior]

Hi,
I also try to give mine a varied diet, for reasons already mentioned here! I give them the land in earthworm abundance, fly larvae and frozen bloodworms. Just do not give more types of food due to lack of availability! Where you can see here the nutritional value of each food: Caudata Culture Articles - Nutritional Values

 

[Azhael]

Bloodworms are good, but are not nutritionally complete at all....in the long run they will leave your newts with severe deficiencies( this species is not prone to MBD but it doesn´t mean it can´t happen).
They need variety and most of all, they need calcium, so sn staple of earthworms is ideal. You can suplement the earthworms with the bloodworms, and many other foods.

 

[caudatadude28]

My adult newts are almost exclusively fed on chopped nightcrawlers and earthworms. They are much higher in essential nutrients. In addition to earthworms and nightcrawlers I occasionally offer bloodworms(frozen), whiteworms, and waxworms. Here is the chart of nutritional values of amphibian foods. I recommend reading through it.

 

[TLaw]

How small would earthworms have to be chopped up? Like to the same size as reptomin bites or something like that?

 

[Azhael]

They can take surprisingly big earthworms, but chopping them into 1cm long pieces works well (2cm for large females).

 

[Joost]

Most newts can eat earthworms, which are just as long as themselves. I've never used calciumsuplements for my FBN in 16 years. Never had any problems. I think that varied food will do fine for Cynops

 

[Lusiwarrior]

The earthworms are the live foods rich in calcium, such as could you see in the table of nutritional values! Of all the live food that we have, the earthworms such as Lumbricus terrestris and Dendrobaena spp. are without doubt the most complete. The chemical elements exist in proportions conducive to a good cell growth, and there is one missing and an excess as is the case of other live foods.
In my opinion these worms should be the food base of all newts! Passing to provide them with earthworms, is the best you can do! Choose 2 or 3 food supplement and stay with a diet!