Paddle tail newts eating there own kind? is it possible?

[mike]

i added another paddle tail newt to my ten gallon tank and i haven't had it for a week when suddenly he was missing? i filled the ten gal all the way up because these newts stay under water most of the time and i thought he had escaped but i looked all over the floor and i couldn't find him? i know he couldn't have gone far because there slow on land but then i noticed my other paddle tail looked kinda of fat but i don't think it's possible for him to eat another newt almost the same size? is it?

 

[jim]

Do you have a lid on your tank? I once had a paddletail jump out of the water during feeding when the lid was off. He was not slow either. I only turned my back for a second to grab another worm and he was halfway across the room. As for eating another newt it depends on how much smaller the other one was.

 

[mike]

the lid of the tank was on. but it had a gap to get though. but the tank is on a shelf 5 feet high wouldn't the paddle tail have boken his legs or something falling down?

 

[edward]

moving posts.

Ed

 

[jennifer]

Please, oh please, study this carefully:
http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/escape.shtml

Yes, paddletails can climb out of a small crack. No, their legs will not be broken by a fall. Yes, they can walk a long distance away, and invariably find the dirtiest, darkest, most inaccessible corner of the house to hide in and dry up.

If there was a big size difference between the 2 newts, then canibalism is possible, but I doubt they could have been that different in size.

 

[mike]

WELL GOOD NEWS EVERYONE I FOUND MY PADDLETAIL!!!!
he all of a sudden reappeared in my tank! i figured out why he went missing. when i filled my tank all the way up the filter touched the water so my newt cralwed up the filter and stayed in the filter box for 3 days.