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Update on my T. Yangi. It's been about two weeks. They are both eating worms and are nicely plump. A few questions tho. They are SLOW. They move like they are in slow motion. Is this normal? They are attentive and look at me and eat but all very slowly. Should I feed them every other day? They are Hugh and I'm afraid of over feeding them. Plus they don't seem to deficate every day, is this normal? I am having a problem, if I dust the worms with calcium as soon as they taste it they spit the worm out. How do I get around this problem? Thank you. Now for the pics :)
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Great looking newts you have there, I find mine to be 80% aquatic this time of year for me and then terrestrial during 3-4 months during the winter.
 
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Right now they are in a quarantine cage. I have damp moss on half the cage and damp paper towels on the bottom. They have a water bowl that.is large enuf to soak in but they both avoid it like the plague. The tank they are going into is as of right now a 75 land 25 water but I might change that to 50/50.
 
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Slow movement is normal for Tylototritons. I always marvel that these species are even able to survive in the wild - how do they get food when they move this slowly??:confused:
 
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mmfh said:
A few questions tho. They are SLOW. They move like they are in slow motion. Is this normal? They are attentive and look at me and eat but all very slowly.
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They shouldn't be lightning fast movers like Jennewt said, and this species in particular are quite lazy and very bold, so this is kind of normal. They eat slowly too, taking their time to take down their food.

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Should I feed them every other day? They are Hugh and I'm afraid of over feeding them.
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Feed them 3 times a week at this size, that has always been a general rule for a few of my species, and they never seem to loose weight or get obese.

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Plus they don't seem to deficate every day, is this normal
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From what I have found of my breeders they don't seem to do it everyday, aslong as your individuals are defecating? Are you certain they are defecating?

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I am having a problem, if I dust the worms with calcium as soon as they taste it they spit the worm out. How do I get around this problem? Thank you. Now for the pics :)
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You should be gut-loading live food anyway really so the Supplements are an extra reassurance that they are getting it. However what kind of worms are you using? I never really found this a problem before.
 
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albatross55 said:
this newt is 0% aquatic?
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They are 75-80% aquatic for their breeding period which is normally most of the summer time however, you are not guaranteed that they will enter the water. They are predominantly terrestrial for the rest of the year and will hardly enter the water.
 
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I find mine to be pretty speedy when feeding time comes, and also quite active when in the water. I have seen one small male pound a worm that was double its body length in under 2 minutes. The worm was meant for a large female and he stole it :p. I have not noticed mine to be too sluggish but that may just be my individuals.
 
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The one that I have is huge; and she only gets bigger once she's finished eating a Canadian Nightcrawler. One thing I've learned about my tylo is that she "goes" after spraying her with water. She's very sluggish, dislikes water, and spends her day digging around in her cave and just staying in her spot once she's done.
 
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Actually, as far as feeding goes I'm just confused. I have roaches, Isopods, crickets, red worms, and night crawlers. I do have frozen bloodworms but since I'm feeding on land I'm not sure how to feed those. Also, with as slow as they are I couldn't fathom how they would catch any thing but a worm. How do you gut load worms? I remember reading somewhere that a person injected worms with liquid calcium but I'm not sure any details were given, like how much and where to get liquid calcium. So far they will eat the red worms and the night crawlers but spit them out if they have calcium powder on them. As far as fecal matter, twice now I have found black smudges that by process of elimination IMO must be fecal matter because the cage is as of now quite sparse.
 
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Tylos will stalk legged prey and catch it with a snap of the jaws or tongue. They don't need to be fast to catch prey by surprise.

Gutloading works well with scavengers or omnivores like crickets, probably not so well with isopods. Overall, earthworms are pretty good food, and neither dusting nor gut-loading are really needed or helpful. In fact, if dusting causes prey to be rejected completely, it seems counter-productive. In the wild, prey should be abundant beneath subtropical leaf litter or downed logs, and a slow toxic predators have little fear of starving.
 
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I don't have this species.... yet I would suggest that you feed your worms fish flakes that way they are gut loaded a friend of mine injects liquid calcium into his feeder worms
 
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mmfh said:
How do you gut load worms? I remember reading somewhere that a person injected worms with liquid calcium but I'm not sure any details were given, like how much and where to get liquid calcium.
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You shouldn't need to like Frogeyes says, it's unneeded as they are very good nutrition wise the only food I would Gut-load for them would be the Crickets and that's about it really. Never injected either, don't know anyone that does it either if I am honest really. I have never had any such problem before :/
 
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