Eurycea larvae help

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Ok, so a little while back I got an adult eurycea cirrigera but I had to release it. Now I have a larvae and I need a little help on feeding it. Right now it is nearly 2.5 in long and it is eating the smallest earthworms I can find. I want to know what else I can feed it that I could buy from a store. Sadly my parents won't let me buy anything online so the food has to come from petsmart/petco. I have heard of people giving their larvae frozen or freeze-dried bloodworms. I would like to know how to get mine to eat non-living ffods like that.
 
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Most newt and salamander larvae will ONLY eat live foods. Chopped black-worms are a good staple that can possibly be found at a local pet-store or fish-store. You could also try bloodworms, however, as these aren't live, they'll have to be hand-fed to stimulate movement. The larvae can be fed every day or every other day.
 
Thanks. I have some freeze-dried bloodworms that I give to my fish. How could I make them move so my salamanders willl eat them?
 
I've had some success sucking one into the end of a pipette and then wiggling it out the end to entice a feeding response in N.viridescens larvae. Eventually it got to the point where the larvae would associate the pipette with food, and come over to it.

I will say though, that I felt like they didn't grow large enough on blood-worms as a staple. I'd definitely look into getting black-worms or white-worms in addition to the blood-worms. The black-worms, even when chopped into tiny pieces, still wiggle around. The white-worms are small and can stay alive, wriggling, for a bit under water.
 
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I would LOVE it if I could find blackworms. Unfortunatly the only fish stores I can get to is petsmart and petco. I am not sure if they have blackworms but I'll look into it.
 
Freeze-dried bloodworms are a very poor choice...they are VERY lacking in nutrition.
Frozen bloodworms are better but still are not good enough as an staple.
Try tiny earthworms, crustaceans, etc...
 
Thats what I am currently feeding them, small worms (and some insect larvae that I suspect are small hellgrammites). It is just a hassle to go out everyday in search of food. It is very hard to find worms small enough for my larvae. As you can see in the pictures, they are just over 2in long. I also have one more question to ask, will they morph into adults soon?
 
Risigan said:
I also have one more question to ask, will they morph into adults soon?
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These larvae can take years to morph into adults, though when fed well, they grow rather quickly.

I should also mention that I can't access your photos. It says something about the gmail account being unavailable.
 
I was browsing the hikari website and I found out that their freeze-dried bloodworms are more nutritous than their frozen ones! I guess that is good news now that my larvae love the freeze-dried worms.
 
Can't anybody tell me when my larvae will morph? I let the larger one go. How long unttil the smaller one morphs?
 
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Can't anybody tell me when my larvae will morph? I let the larger one go. How long unttil the smaller one morphs?
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How come you released the larger one?

It's hard to say when they'll morph. It could be months, or more if you ask me. Maybe someone with more expertise on plethodontids can give you a better answer.
 
I released the larger one because it refused to eat. I was thinking my larvae would morph soon because of its size. The smaller one now looks similar to the large on in color.
 
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