Marbled Salamander not eating

[carlos]

Help!!!! Please help me!!!! My Marbled Salamander (Ambystoma opacum) stop eating for 3 weeks, what can i do now???
Thank You......

 

[joel]

You need to give more details, like tank setup, parameters, how many you are keeping together, food etc. before someone can actually diagnose your problem.

 

[fabrizio]

Hi... for example, check the temperature of the tank they live in... under 15°C, they stop eating and moving... you know?



Fabrizio.

 

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[carlos]

Hi... now the temperature is 13.8, and it live alone in a 8"X 5" tank with loose substrate (moss), and i feed it crickets twice a week.

 

[leanne]

Is he getting skinny? Is he still active otherwise, or is he hiding in the substrate?

 

[edward]

All of the captive marble salamanders I normally see are usually obese so a three week fast is not out of the ordinary. These salamanders have slow metabolisms and are often overfed when kept at cooler temps. I don't have my conversion calculater handy but the ones at work continue to move and feed below 40 F (I just haven't measure how low exactly) When they get that cold sort of feed them when I remember and they still get obese.
Check out the care sheet on marbles caudata care which tells you how many crickets/week a marble salamander needs at different temps.
If you are using an acidic substrate such as sphagnum moss thus can cause a salamander to stop feeding and eventually die so substrate is important.
Just some thoughts
Ed

 

[carlos]

yes, it always higing in the substrate, and not active, and he is not too skinny. now, i try to leave the crickets for him to hunt by himself, i wish he can eat by this way...... /. .\