I have recently just bought a CFB, and am keeping it in quarantine from my other two CFBs that I have had for a year. Aside from making sure it's healthy, I'm also trying to let it grow as much as possible so that it does not get bullied around by the other two who are a fair amount larger. My other two newts are 8.5 cms long and female, and 7.5cm long and male. This new one is 6cm long and I'm not sure yet if it's male or female. My question is, how long will it take for it to fully grow?
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How Long Does it Take Cynops orientalis adults to fully grow?
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Re: How Long Does it Take Cynops oreintalis adults to fully grow?
Full grown can take a lot of years, but also depends on the temperature, your newt in is. Normaly they are mature in 2-4 years, and won't grow that much anymore
Full grown can take a lot of years, but also depends on the temperature, your newt in is. Normaly they are mature in 2-4 years, and won't grow that much anymore
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Re: How Long Does it Take Cynops oreintalis adults to fully grow?
I think the mixing with the other, after the quarantine, there will be no major problems! When my cyanurus arrived, the female was almost 2cm less than the male and have not had any problems! You can always do what I did, fed it every day with 2 or 3 pieces of earthworms. Now it is almost the same size, although still far from ideal size! If you do the same with your'll see growing quickly! As orientalis are very pacific and the struggle between them will be almost non-existent not see the size is the problem. After attempts to join to watch them as you can, if you observe any behavior that you seem tin're here to help!
I think the mixing with the other, after the quarantine, there will be no major problems! When my cyanurus arrived, the female was almost 2cm less than the male and have not had any problems! You can always do what I did, fed it every day with 2 or 3 pieces of earthworms. Now it is almost the same size, although still far from ideal size! If you do the same with your'll see growing quickly! As orientalis are very pacific and the struggle between them will be almost non-existent not see the size is the problem. After attempts to join to watch them as you can, if you observe any behavior that you seem tin're here to help!
Re: How Long Does it Take Cynops oreintalis adults to fully grow?
How old would you think the 6cm one might possibly be? Would you say the other two are full grown? I never really ever bothered measuring them until today, the male I've had for 11 months and the female 9 months, but I don't THINK that I've noticed much change in their size.
How old would you think the 6cm one might possibly be? Would you say the other two are full grown? I never really ever bothered measuring them until today, the male I've had for 11 months and the female 9 months, but I don't THINK that I've noticed much change in their size.
Re: How Long Does it Take Cynops oreintalis adults to fully grow?
Newts never completely stop growing; they can continue to grow for their whole lives. Of course the growth is very slow after maturity.
Indeterminate growth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Newts never completely stop growing; they can continue to grow for their whole lives. Of course the growth is very slow after maturity.
Indeterminate growth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Re: How Long Does it Take Cynops oreintalis adults to fully grow?
Jen, would you say it's ok to put the little guy with the other two in a month or two? The female can be a bit of a bully a lot of the time, nipping at the male to keep him out of the feeding dish at dinner time. I'd hate to see the same happen to my little one.
Jen, would you say it's ok to put the little guy with the other two in a month or two? The female can be a bit of a bully a lot of the time, nipping at the male to keep him out of the feeding dish at dinner time. I'd hate to see the same happen to my little one.
Re: How Long Does it Take Cynops oreintalis adults to fully grow?
I would suggest that you might want to increase the feeding schedule for the adults. If the female is getting nippy, this may decrease if they are fed every-other day or every day. I would say it's safe to add the little one any time, BUT ONLY if it gets enough to eat in the group. In other words, I wouldn't worry about its size or getting nipped (assuming that it's healthy, eating well, and has been through the quarantine period), I would only worry about it not getting enough to eat when it has competition.
If you add it together with the bigger ones and it turns totally terrestrial, this is a sign that it needs to be on its own longer.
I would suggest that you might want to increase the feeding schedule for the adults. If the female is getting nippy, this may decrease if they are fed every-other day or every day. I would say it's safe to add the little one any time, BUT ONLY if it gets enough to eat in the group. In other words, I wouldn't worry about its size or getting nipped (assuming that it's healthy, eating well, and has been through the quarantine period), I would only worry about it not getting enough to eat when it has competition.
If you add it together with the bigger ones and it turns totally terrestrial, this is a sign that it needs to be on its own longer.
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You could also put in two food dishes to avoid any agression. I do that with my two (purely because one is totally aquatic and the other is more terrestrial) - If they were both fed together I think I'd still be tempted to put in two bowls for them.
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Oh I'd also be interested in finding out about size vs age; approximately. In peoples experience roughly at what age is your newt around 3" in length (both of mine are roughly); I don't need an exact age just an approximate (i.e. normally between 2 and 4 years or something rather than ohh 2.5 years old exactly). I am just curious.
I'm also rather curious about this. That is, if indeed you can make a determination on age based on size. Like for my newts that I mentioned earlier, how old might they be possibly?
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Well, is difficult to say how old is a newt, taking in consideration just the size. I remember that high, in Carpatian Mountain, a friend of mine found some very old Messotriton alpestris that look small. How he found the informations about their age? Simple, but traumatically in the same time. It's call skeletochronology. Basically, you ned to cut a finger from every newt and remove the soft tissue til you have just the naked bone. Then you must prepare the bone for criotome and cut very thin slices. After the coloration process you put the slice at microscope and number the the rings just like you do with a tree.
Is the only method if you want to find the exact age, but also you need training and a lot of scientific information.
I'm not a very good English speaker, so I'm sorry if my post is not grammatically correct.
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Is the only method if you want to find the exact age, but also you need training and a lot of scientific information.
I'm not a very good English speaker, so I'm sorry if my post is not grammatically correct.
Best regards