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frozen food for terrestrial juveniles

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I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to how I can wean my terrestrial juveniles off of live black worms and start feeding them frozen bloodworms. My 4 babies are doing very well- they morphed approximately 1.5-2 months ago.

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Hello shop worn angel. Why do you want to feed your newts frozen bloodworms, instead of live blackworms? You could still feed terrestial newts live blackworms if you just put some in a dish with a few rocks that the worms can cling onto. Also try covering the dish slightly so your juvies would go in there to hide. Good luck with them.
 
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Persuading terrestrial morphs to take frozen bloodworm is often difficult. Some species are easier than others so it really depends what species you're talking about here. The best method is to roll a few defrosted bloodworms into a small ball and poke it onto the end of a toothpick which can then be wiggled in front of their faces. As they get used to hand (tweezer) feeding this becomes more successful. Unless you have some large, well settled and outgoing newts I would think yours are still too young to be trained to hand feed.

Placing a small pile of frozen bloodworm in the enclosure isn't going to work; it'll just go moldy and the newts will ignore it.
 
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I've had limited sucess feeding frozen bloodworm to terrestial morphs, the majority Ive tried with wont take them but a few will. I fold a paper towel in quarters to form a little pocket, moisten it, and drops the worms inside. I then position the 'open' side as close as I can to where the newt hides/travels.
Your best putting it in as close as possible to when they feed and remove it the following day. The same method with live blood worm works a little better.
 
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Wow! Thanks for the advice. Yes...I must say that I'm likely not going to be able to feed these little guys frozen food. They are so funny- they will go near it and hover over it for several minutes, only to eventually walk away. They do seem to find the live worms more appealing at this time, as they go to eat them almost as quickly as I put them in the tank. Perhaps I'll have to wait until they become aquatic to feed them the frozen worms. Oh- I should have mentioned that the babies are chinese firebelly newts.
 
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