If you are worried about live food stressing the little guy out you could always try frozen foods. Check out your local pet stores aquarium section...and ask for blood worms. They usually come in small frozen containers with 15-20 "pockets" of frozen red mosquito larvae. They are about 1 cm cubed and are fairly easy to feed. Simply thaw one of the cubed in some sort of feeding dish and place the dish near where ever your salamander likes to hang out in his tank. It shouldn't take long for him to figure out that the dish represents food.

My salamander loves these things and I usually find him near the food dish in his tank. About every other feeding I will either substitute or mix in salamander bites. These are little pellets (also found near the aquarium / herp section in pet stores) that are designed to sink to the bottom of an aquarium for aquatic salamanders and frogs. Mine has been feeding fine on this diet for over a year now and is appears healthy in both appearance and behaviour.

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