As usual, every Friday morning I get ready for clinical at the hospital, and glance into the adult newt tank because my female cynops orientalis Fez is always out there looking at me and doing a kind of dance. The three other adults don't like to come out during the morning and stay near the back of the tank.
Well, this morning, I look in and there's Fez, upside down. Oh no, she must be dead. Newts don't stay upside down lying on a rock underwater. I go in to take away her body and see if I can see what happened and she swims away! Thanks, Fez, for the scare. She's now acting like nothing ever happened, lol.
It's not the first time they have scheemed to do crap like this. Once, my male Diablo crawled into the whisper filter and was at the bottom. I looked through the entire tank looking for him, desperate and certain that he escaped, despite my pretty much "escape-proof" tank, only to find him sitting in the bottom of my filter after I took it out. He knows not to go into it anymore. My other male Bart also scared me once by climbing into a hollow plastic rock that had a hole in it I didn't know about. I once again freaked out because I was certain he escaped. Spitfire, my other female, is the only one so far who hasn't been smart with me.
Anyone else have stories of their newts freaking them out?
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Why do they try to freak me out like this?
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I have a story but it doesn't have a happy ending. 8 years ago I had 2 adult fire-bellied newts. I had always had a lid on their tank but one day I left it off. I think I was trying something new with a water accessory of some kind but I can't remember for sure. Anyways, I come home from school and couldn't find the newts in the tank. I end up finding them in the closet completely dried out. I had no idea that they could shimmy up a corner.
Recently with my 2 new fb newts I had a little scare. The smallest one wasn't easy to find at first. He ended up being under the water filter which is fine since his previous owner said he enjoyed spending time under there. I raised the filter just in case to ensure that he can't easily become stuck to the inlet of the pump.
