Newt with Loss of appetite

Hello,

I have one Fire-Bellied Newt, which has been fine for about a month on his own, but just recently he has stopped eatting.
I have been feeding him every 3 days with frozen bloodworms, but he hasnt eaten anything for about a week.

He is very lethagic as well, he is very content on sitting on his rock or plant with his head out of the water.

I thought to start with it was the water, but having tested both the temperature and the nitrate level, this is not the case.

I put in a smaller tank for an hour, while cleaning out his tank yesterday, and it seemed to perk him up a little bit, with only a centimeter of water in the bottom of the tank, but he is back to the way he was now!

I have put in some frozen brine shrimp tonight to see if he will eat that, but so far, he has just sat on his rock.

Please help...

Hi.
I am wondering if it was one of two things..do newts slow down when colder ? I have axolotl and they have since the temps drop. I was also wondering if they might be better fed with live food...maybe bloodworm etc. I suspect if he see's something wriggling he might just pounce and eat, might be worth a try.

I have been trying to get hold of some live bloodworms, but the petshop keep forgetting to order them.

If anyone knows of anywhere in Chesterfield I can get hold of some, that would be great.

Im not sure about the temperature thing, but will do some research.

Thanks

Temperature

We have just checked the temperature again and its 19 deg C

is this ok?

Having not much else to do I checked on the care sheets it appears that 20 degrees and under are ok..but one of the food items it suggests is chopped earth worm....maybe that might be worth a try.

http://www.caudata.org/cc/species/Cynops/C_orientalis.shtml

Earthworms are always a good bet, but in my experience i wouldn't be too concerned about a newt not eating for a week.

Was the newt previously aquatic and now spending its time out of water? I agree with Peter, I wouldn't worry too much yet.

I put in some frozen brine shrimp for a change last night, and he seemed to have eaten most of them.

He was mostly aquatic when we first got him, its only recently he likes to be out of the water, i was wondering if he is just bored..

I have some live bloodworm on order, but the pet shop is useless and keeps forgetting to order it, hopefully this weekend they will have some in!

I will stop panicing for now, thanks for all the advice

Keeping caudates presents a host of challenges- but i honestly don't think that you need to worry about your animals getting bored)

etcballs, dartfrog.co.uk is a good place for obtaining livefood for newts, they sell bloodworm and lots of other live cultures by fbn's are lucky I live right next to an aquarium store that always seems to have plenty live bloodworm i ordered them a whiteworm culture which arrived today however, nothing wrong with a bit of variety.
thats good to hear that he's eaten something hopefully he will be fine, 3 of my newts have never even entered the water yet the water quality is fine and theres not much going on to stress them i think they're still jueveniles.

if your newt seems to prefer land at the moment you could always try feeding him some pin head crickets my terrestrial red efts love those!