Food for young spotted salamander

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robert

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I have a spotted salamander that recently completed its metamorphous from larva to adult. I was wondering what I should feed it. I have heard about foods like earthworms, crickets, etc., but these seem too big for his little mouth; he is still relatively small (only about three inches long). Any recommendations?
 
Hi Robert....when my newts were as small as yours must be, I used to feed them with small peaces of chicken! And when they where in the water I used frozen bloodworms...
 
fruit flies, pinhead crickets to crickets about 1/8" long, chopped earthworms
 
I have a new spotted morph myself and it eats chopped pieces of night-crawlers almost exclusively. I've also had good luck with live black worms; both are given and readily taken from tweezers.
 
I fed my marmoratus exclusively on live blackworms for the first few months after metamorphosis and experienced no problems.
 
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