Firefox219
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I've had 2 fire bellied newts since august now they've never had live food though i'm wondering if they'll eat some now.
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caudatadude28
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I have rarely seen a newt refuse live food. I think that live food is the best. Pellets and frozen foods are inferior to it in nutrients. My newts also get much more excited about live food. I would suggest chopped earthworms/nightcrawlers. Live bloodworms and blackworms are good too. What is available to you?
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As caudatadude suggests, earthworms are excelent. They are in fact the ultimate caudate fodder!!!
Thyey are highly nutritious, rich in calcium and they just love them. Just make sure you get them from a chemical free area or culture them yourself.
In addition to a diet based on earthworms, you can add variety by offering frozen bloodworms (very handy, quite good for a frozen food), brine shrimp, isopods, slugs, crickets, waxworms, a wide variety of fresh water crustaceans (Daphnia, gammarids, shrimp...), tubifex, fly maggots....
Thyey are highly nutritious, rich in calcium and they just love them. Just make sure you get them from a chemical free area or culture them yourself.
In addition to a diet based on earthworms, you can add variety by offering frozen bloodworms (very handy, quite good for a frozen food), brine shrimp, isopods, slugs, crickets, waxworms, a wide variety of fresh water crustaceans (Daphnia, gammarids, shrimp...), tubifex, fly maggots....
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carlyjane
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They'll be grand Ii'm sure - i''ve only had my cynops about a week now and they were eating live brine shrimp the day after I brought them home!