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Anything else to feed fire-bellied newts besides blood worms?

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I have been feeding it bloodworms (frozen, from the pet store). It's pretty thin. Anything else I can feed it? What about fruit flies? I feed those to my dart frog.

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Earthworms, and i would recommend getting them right away. Bloodworms are nutritionally incomplete and if fed exclusively for long periods of time they can result in very severe nutritional issues and metabolic conditions which may even lead to death.
Other than earthworms you can try waxworms, isopods, blackworms, whiteworms, Daphnia, small crickets....
 
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Mine love spikes/maggots. The spikes are a pretty big mouthful for them but they all eat them very enthusiastically. I ordered the spikes online.
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Spikes refer to the pupae of the Blue Bottle Fly and are maggots smaller than a wax worm.

I'd second Azhael's recommendation on getting earth worms. My orientalis are fed almost entirely on chopped nightcrawlers. When I was first given my orientalis pair they were extremely emaciated and stressed so I originally fattened them up by putting them in a shallow tub with plenty of live blackworms.
 
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