Frantic tiger salamander

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Hello, my eastern tiger salamander has been very frantic for about an hour. He is running around his enclosure and is trying to climb out. Recently he has only been accepting mealworms and nothing else. He is in a ten gallon aquarium and is full grown to about 10.5 inches long. He has also become thiner these last few months and is about as wide around as his head. I have had him for about a year and a half and I haven't encountered any problems like this with him. I'm wondering if this is behavioral or if there is something wrong with him. Sorry if I made any grammatical errors.
 
I've noticed that mine sometimes change behavior based on sudden changes in the weather outside. I think its largely influenced by the change in barometric pressure, such as during spring rain storms.
You should really try to get it to eat something besides mealworms. They're not very nutritious and their shell is not digested very well. I would keep trying to give the salamander some earthworms at every feeding. Earthworms are considered nutritionally complete, and pose no problem being a staple diet for your salamander.
Your enclosure is also a little small for a salamander of that size.
 
That makes sense because there was a thunderstorm last night and it's about 10-15 degrees warmer than yesterday but is it normal that he doesn't want to eat anything else. Anyway I will keep trying to give him earthworms.
 
Some of my tigers don't accept earthworms. I feed them roaches out of my culture and some waxies and beetle larvae now and then.
 
Yeah roaches make a great alternative to earthworms. I've fed them quite a few times and my salamanders loved them.
 
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