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First of all don't worry... my two FBNs are doing fine.
I'm just curious as to what some other treats they will like are.
Right now they are on a frozen brine shrimp diet. I figured i'd try to keep it to a frozen diet for nutitional reasons... frozen seems to be better than dried/pellet food. That and anything live they leave alone. Got like 10 guppy fry in there... never see them dissapear.

Just curious... figured they may want some variety.
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Later,
WhisQuila

Try earthworms. Guppies really aren't a natural food of firebellies. Chopped earthworms are good, as are blackworms or frozen bloodworms.

the guppies were never meant to be newt food. I bought some feeder guppies to get the tank cycled... which sorta never happened but i don't seem to have a problem with the tank. Anyway... one was pregnant and my guppy population trippled. Seems like i only lost about 3 or 4 of the fry. anyway... they clean up the uneaten brineshrimp. I'm oging to need to move them to my other tank with the two mollies soon. and then i was thinking of getting a mystery snail. (any thoughts on that?)

I'll try the frozen bloodworms and blackworms. Would try earthworms but don't know where to get any. All hard red clay around my house. That and pesticides and stuff.
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Later,
WhisQuila

My FBN's came from the wild. I have plenty of earthworms available - no pesticides - but they chow down on small store-bought live crickets! Love 'em!

Anyway, I only feed my son's newts live (chopped) earthworms & crickets. Because they came from the wild (I didn't do it! My son did!), they want to see there prey wiggle about.

If you have a pet store around, give it a shot.

Both of the newts now eat from my foreceps. They're SPOILED ROTTEN!!!

Good luck

Becky

aka tworoughs: Jimmy Neutron and Libby

Crickets are good. Earthworms can be bought at any bait shop. That's where I get mine.