Kaiseri wont eat

[steven1969s]

Hello everyone.

Four days ago I got a couple of 3 month old Kaiseri in the mail and since then they haven't eaten anything.
The person who sold them to me kept them terrestrial in a plastic bin 1'x1' with a small low dish for water. I'm also keeping the the same way with, soil, moss, hidding places and a deep
water dish at ground level. The temps are in the low 60' and at night in the high 50's.
I have tried giving them pinhead crickets, wax worms and I have also have put some bllack worms in their water dish, but nothing
Could it be too cold for them?? (60'), should I try putting them in a aquatic setting, with maybe 2inches of water and a climbing places??

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Today is day 4 and they still don't seem interested in their food.

 

[Revan]

Newts can take well over a week to settle in. You will get a better feeding response when the newts are aquatic in my experience.

Temps are ok, but don't I wouldn't let them get much cooler, as that will only decrease the feeding response.

Raising them aquatically is perfectly fine.

 

[Jennewt]

How do you know if they are eating the pinheads or not? It's often difficult to tell, especially if you put a lot of pinheads in at once. Same is true for the blackworms in the dish. I think 4 days is too soon to tell if they are eating or not.

 

[steven1969s]

I thought of putting them in a plastic bin with 2 inches of water and gjving them a lot of plants and rocks to hide in. Can I just put them in water when they were terrestrial before they go to my home?. (They are only 3 months old)
I counted the pinheads I put in their bin and in the morning they were all still alive.

How long can they go without food?

 

[steven1969s]

After playing with the temps a little (raised to 65 f ) I'm happy to say that one newt had a wax worm in his mouth this morning. Of course he wouldn't eat it in front of me, however, as soon as I stepped out of the room and came back 5 minutes later, one of the 2 newts had a juicy worm in his mouth.

I guess it was too cold.

Steve