What your triturus eat??

[felipe]

Hi, I would like to know how do you feed tour triturus!! I feed them with chicken meat, california worms(as we call them in Brasil, in the USA and England I think you call them "nightcrawlers") and fish pellets... Tell me what your triturus like to eat in the terrestrial and in the aquatic period! (If you can, make a description of the bug/worm that you is talking, because they could have different names for me!) Thanks!!!

 

[william]

i feed mine almost exclusively on earthworms (aka nightcrawlers) with the odd slug every so often.

 

[olaf]

Hello Felipe,
when they are terrestrial, they also feed on crickets (Acheta). When they are aquatic, they also like larvae of midges (bloodworms?)or Gammarus (small crustaceans, I dont know if you get them in Brazil). A very good food for many aquatic newts (Cynops, Pleurodeles)when I dont have live food is frozen Artemia, I think aquatic Triturus should also take them.
Olaf

 

[felipe]

Here in Brasil we have Gammarus, but only dehydrated, they are sold as turtle food here! I used to give them frozen bloodworms or live artemia, but they are too small for my triturus, and I stop to feed them with this... I will try crickets now...but I think they will get scared!!! The pleurodeles eat crickets too?