Jesthing
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Hello,
I had originally posted on here not too long ago for help with picking out a newt. (First newt/salamander thread http://www.caudata.org/forum/showthread.php?t=58111). Ends up there was a suddent drop in temperature and it was not safe to ship newts so I caved and bought 2 at a local petshop not wanting to wait until spring. I asked a girl and she said she had been working there for 3 or 4 months and I was the first to buy a newt!
Either way I have 2 questions.. They keep taking this curvy posture, kind of like a scared cat. They put their heads on the rocks and peck. Are they looking for food/hungry? They kind of do that when they eat. I've been feeding them everyday since I got them incase they had not been fed enough at the petstore. They are hungry little guys! Doesn't show that much in the picture but she (i think it's a she) will really curve up and put her head in the rocks.
Question 2: They are always in the water. I have a floating plant they could go on and driftwood that breaks the water with a little area to rest on/rock trail to facilitate climbing on it and they have not used it at all. They just walk around the bottom of the aquarium and swim up for a "gulp of air" every now and then. Is that normal?
Thank you!
PS. I have other pictures of the newts here.
I had originally posted on here not too long ago for help with picking out a newt. (First newt/salamander thread http://www.caudata.org/forum/showthread.php?t=58111). Ends up there was a suddent drop in temperature and it was not safe to ship newts so I caved and bought 2 at a local petshop not wanting to wait until spring. I asked a girl and she said she had been working there for 3 or 4 months and I was the first to buy a newt!
Either way I have 2 questions.. They keep taking this curvy posture, kind of like a scared cat. They put their heads on the rocks and peck. Are they looking for food/hungry? They kind of do that when they eat. I've been feeding them everyday since I got them incase they had not been fed enough at the petstore. They are hungry little guys! Doesn't show that much in the picture but she (i think it's a she) will really curve up and put her head in the rocks.
Question 2: They are always in the water. I have a floating plant they could go on and driftwood that breaks the water with a little area to rest on/rock trail to facilitate climbing on it and they have not used it at all. They just walk around the bottom of the aquarium and swim up for a "gulp of air" every now and then. Is that normal?
Thank you!
PS. I have other pictures of the newts here.