Molch
Well-known member
- Joined
- Sep 28, 2010
- Messages
- 1,385
- Reaction score
- 36
I've had my 4 C. pyrrhogaster for 13 years. Several years ago I bred them after I hibernated them in a moss-filled crate at 40 F for about 2 months.
Then I moved to Nome and started a new job, where until this summer I had no electricity at home, so the newts lived in a tank at my office, where I didn't have the space to set up a breeding operation etc - long story short, for the last 5 years they've just had a cooler (ca. 55 F) but aquatic period during winter but have not bred.
Now I got power at home and the newts have moved back in with me. I'd like to get these old chaps into breeding mode again. They are healthy and plump, but I fear they may have forgotton how to make babies .
Do you think another moss-crate hibernation will get them back into breeding mode? How do all of you hibernate this species?
Then I moved to Nome and started a new job, where until this summer I had no electricity at home, so the newts lived in a tank at my office, where I didn't have the space to set up a breeding operation etc - long story short, for the last 5 years they've just had a cooler (ca. 55 F) but aquatic period during winter but have not bred.
Now I got power at home and the newts have moved back in with me. I'd like to get these old chaps into breeding mode again. They are healthy and plump, but I fear they may have forgotton how to make babies .
Do you think another moss-crate hibernation will get them back into breeding mode? How do all of you hibernate this species?