Thanks much, I'll go pick up the bigger 30 gallon then for him tomorrow from the storage unit and set that up for him, look into getting a chiller as you said. To this point I never had a cold water animal so that's good to know that there even is such a thing as a chiller.

And sorry if I sound unknowing, I do know quite a bit about swordtails and eels but when it comes to newts... you can clearly see I don't.

I only have this little guy because the owner was simply going to let him go and the next person in line was a six year old with a five gallon tank.

Thanks much for the help.