I need help with feeding my slamander it's not eating!

[karolina]

I have a Long-toed Salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum) named Tuni sadly I can't find ANYTHING at ALL that Tuni will eat I tried blood worms but I learned that this is a fully terrestrial species so no aquatic foods for my salamander. okay I have tried feeding Tuni worms medium sized ones and small ones putting the live worms in Tuni's container but they crawled in from of him and over him and under him and he just moved away from them, so I tried giving him them with tweezers that did not work (chopped up in pieces) they where only the worms in my backyard though. Also I tried feeding him live wood bugs and snails which he also ran away from I only have 3 pet stores here with a 4th opening in nov.7 but one of them doesn't sell live food/bugs and the other two did not sell anything to feed Tuni with! Crickets are my last resort I am going to try to see if paws and jaws has some, because sometimes they do. Has anyone had the same salamander as me or knows anyone with one? if so please help my Tuni is getting thin and weak I have had him for like 4 days without food his current home is in a critter carrier with about 5 cm of topsoil on the bottom (which I keep moist but not muddy), half a hamster tube for him to hide in and a half buried yoghurt cup with an opening. Please help me or suggest some other foods/bugs I am not allowed to mail order or use internet to buy anything :/

btw the stores here are petcetera ,paws n jaws, and bosleys, and petsmart is opening in nov.7 I have never seen or heard of petsmart so hopefully it will be a good pet store.

 

[karolina]

yay! I am happy to conclude that after constantley observing Tuni he has finally eaten a small worm! yay ^^ I am so happy. That worm was in there for like 2 days but he got it it rained today so I will go worm hunting tomorrow T_T which will be also rainy. well tomorrow I will hopefully have his tank set-up.
I guess he was just stressed out from me changing his current home.

 

[joan]

I've kept longtoeds. The hardest part is finding food small enough. Chopped worms are fine. Usually they just need a few days to settle in before they start eating. I buy all my worms at walmart. If you find that it is really shy, take a long paperclip and bend it so it has a long handle and a short 'stub' (like a big L shape). Skewer the worm on the short part of the L, and hold the long part way up at the top. Then they don't see this giant hand coming at them and get freaked out, they just see the wriggling worm at the end.

 

[karolina]

okay too bad the walmart here doesn't sell bugs or live foods they has a very small pet section with no reptile/amphibian supplies and have only like 8 tanks there with barely any fish they occasonally have fire bellied newts but thats about it, the only other 3stores don't sell food for salamanders they only have ones for aquatic or not the right kind, I guess it's back to digging for worms T_T good thing my mom just got rid of all her veggie plants in the garden and they turned up all the soil before winter worms arne't hard to find in my mom's garden, can I feed the worms anything? like a few pieces of veggies and fruits? cause I plan to get as much as I can in like a week before it starts raining cause I will not be able to feed my sally once there's snow

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thanks for the advice I will try that and I am going to move Tuni into his tank before the end of the week.

~sorry for spelling errors I have no time to fix them I have limited computer time and need the time for my homework~