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Hi, I have a female warty newt, today she is bloated (just her stomach) and she floats at the surface (seems to have trouble sinking). Last night when I went to bed she was on the bottom of her aquarium with no appearant problems. When I went into my bedroom at about 8:30 p.m I found her tank (that I had just cleaned last saturday) absolutly filthy. It turns out that my brother thought she looked hungry at about 6:00 a.m and dumped in about half a can (about 18 grams) of "HBH Newt and Salamander Bites" (the crappy food he feeds his newt, I feed her chopped earthworms. He dumped it on top of her rocks so quite a few were washed into the water because of the filter current, and the ones that did not fall into the water still washed pollutants into the water. She is currently in shallow water (so that she does have the stress of attempting to prevent floating). I don't know how many she ate, the instructions say to feed 2-3 per newt so she probably over ate. I read the caudata.org article on bloat but I don't think she has kidney diesease, eggs or infection. About a month ago she got bloated from eating too many crickets (but she did not float), she recovered after three days of not eating and was then swiched to chopped earthworms and was perfectly healthy until she got hold of this smelly pollutant "newt food". Should she simply not be fed for a little while and kept in clean water or is additional treatment required? Can being in polluted water for that long cause bacterial bloat? Any advice is appreciated.