Illness/Sickness: P.ruber quit eating.

[sirus14]

My northern red salamander stopped eating about two weeks ago. It's been in captivity about three months and it is primarily aquatic. It lives in a 15 gallon aquarium with 2/3 of it being about 3 inches of water. It was eating worms but now it just quit eating and it's lost alot of weight. Any suggestions
Please reply.
Taylor.

 

[Kaysie]

How warm is your tank? What kind of worms were you feeding?

 

[sirus14]

I keep the water cold. I freeze about 30 ounces of it's water and put the ice cube in everyday. It ate small chopped earthworms. I keep food in the aquarium like smaller crickets and slugs and today it looked bigger. So I think it ate something. Wouldit be better to keep it In Something with more water?

 

[Jennewt]

I don't think these sals usually inhabit deep water, so the water depth sounds fine.

Keeping a tank cool with frozen water isn't the best approach. I really wouldn't recommend it as a long term approach to keeping it cool. This being winter, surely there's a cold non-freezing place you could use, like a basement or garage?

 

[sirus14]

I put it in an aquarium with a flowing stream and plenty of different food items. it ate some fish and a worm segment. problem solved
Thanks,
Taylor