Great news!

[Red Eft14]

My chinese fire belly newt had its leg bitten off by my red eft about a month or a month and a half ago and since then he has'nt eaten becuase of the pain,so the bone fell off and the womb is closed and looks wayyy healthier and I seperated him and put him in a 2.5 gallon with shallow water and moss and he seems to be climbing on the gold ribbon plants that I have in there and also he seems to be swimming in the water mosre often and is getting use to life with 3 legs and :happy: lol so as I said he still has'nt eaten and I will try to feed him so live black worms this week and he should take it since it seems that the pain has gotten away more.

 

[Yahilles]

1) Congratulations for mixing species
2) The firebelly's leg will regrow

 

[eljorgo]

I dont know if it will regrow but I got to agree with Janusz, congrats on mixing species that share same distributional area in wild. Maybe you could add a few Triturus cristatus too, why not

 

[Kaysie]

Let's not drag this thread down into a 'blame game'.

 

[Red Eft14]

lol I am guilty of mixing them but when I got them I just took them without haveing them in each diffrent tanks becuase in the petstore that I work at some guy gave in the red eft and I took it home becuase my store could'nt sell it becuase it's illegal since its native to NY(thats where I live lol) and when I came home that night my sister's friend had the fire belly and she had it with a green tree frog in the same enclosure so I had no choice so I took it becuase she couldnt keep it and I housed them in the same tank since Ifhad nothing else at the moment.But the tree frog was seperated right away though.

 

[Kaysie]

For future reference, the toxicity of Notopthalmus should be enough to make you think twice about mixing species.

 

[Greatwtehunter]

If I'm not mistaken, I think it is also illegal to possess the eft in NY since it's a native and there is no open season on them.

 

[Red Eft14]

yes it is illegal but I didnt go out there and catch it some guy gave it to me at my store and I couldnt sell it becuase then my store will get in trouble so I took it home,and it's not like aspca is gonna come in my house looking for a 2 inched newt and yet agian someone gave it to me and I took it becuase they knew nothing about its care and I tryed explaining it to the person about its care since he was'nt going upstate any time soon to release it so he just gave it up to me

 

[Red Eft14]

do you think I should release it?

 

[Kaysie]

No!

Now that it's been housed with a foreign species, which is often imported in terrible conditions and full of illness, you can NOT release it into the wild. You will introduce non-native pathogens and could wipe out an entire population of salamanders. DO NOT RELEASE IT!

 

[Red Eft14]

I was thinking that because what you just said I read in a book.Then what I do with it since its illegal I didnt know when I got it till I did research.

 

[Kaysie]

If I were you, I would think about donating it to a local nature center or something like that.

Alternately, keep it and hope it doesn't get confiscated.