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a friend of mine just gave me two fire bellied newts. ive been unable to get them to eat, and i cant find newt pellets.
anyone who can give me an idea of what to feed them id appreciate it. also, she gave me a fire bellied toad and an albino clawed frog. anyone who has an idea on either of those please let me know.
thanks
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*Victoria*

Caudata Culture at Caudata.org has caresheets for all kinds of newts and salamanders. Sometimes newts will stop eating after being moved, but should start again within a week. I feed my C. orientalis (a Chinese Fire Bellied Newt) frozen bloodworms (thawed), live blackworms, and live earthworms cut into small pieces. If you can find really small earthworms, you won't have to cut them up too much and they'll still wiggle. Otherwise, you may need to find a way to wiggle the food around to make it look inviting until they get used to what you offer. I haven't heard of many fire-bellies of any kind liking newt pellets much. Don't leave uneaten food in the tank for more than a couple of hours. You may have better luck feeding them if they are in the water.

well as we have seen do not put anything with your firebellieds. I do know how to take care of the African Clawed frog. Just wondering if you know if it's a dwarf or not and wondering what color it is. The frogs do best in an almost full tank of water like a fish with gravel and a filter and air bubbles. They breathe air so you need to leave about an inch of water from the top but they do not survive long on land. I say this because they do escape and jump and I have found them alive on the carpet in the past usually ok to just dust off and put back in tank. If it seems ill then put in a shallow container for a few days with little water so it's easy for it to get air. They usually eat freeze dried tubifex or bloodworms. I no longer have my frog friends as they all died separately after various vacations (uncle has bad luck). But my lost recent freen dwarfs did not eat the tubifex but loved the loose freeze dried bloodworms. If you have a dwarf they're more docile it's ok to put it in with hardy fish like mollies. We had a bunch of non dwarfs before with fancy tailed goldfish and they literaly grabbed their tails and rode with the fish in the tank, some say the non dwarfs will eat the fish but i think if the fish are bigger it will be ok. The frogs have always outlasted our fish because they don't seem to get the ick or at least not as easily. They like the water temperature warmer like 75-78 if it gets lower in the 60's they'll be ok but they slow down. sorry this is so long let me know if you want more info

I've had my fire bellies for a few years and only seen them eat once while i watched but they must be eating if i've had them this long

hope this helps

My firebellies love HBH newt pellets. Mabye try those.np