TheLioness
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Hi there, long time forum surfer first time poster.
I was recently given a female Japanese red bellied newt to look after. She is an ex-London Zoo animal (my friend works there and ended up owning her but has now given her to me).
She arrived to me healthy and well, but has since not eaten (I got her two weeks ago today). She's used to eating frozen blood worm which is what my friend gave me to feed her. I have changed the viv she is in as I had a bigger one and figured I might as well give her as much space to roam about as possible.
However every time I drop some frozen bloodworm in she doesn't eat any. For a few days she was acting a bit stressed; swimming around the sides of the viv and into the corners and trying to haul herself out, so I moved her into a spare room where the radiator isn't on so it's cooler and she isn't under any direct light, as well as making her a fixed raft in the corner of the viv which she can now find (I think she didn't realise there was a raft floating about). I also noticed that because she wasn't eating and I was leaving food in her viv longer than I probably should to try and encourage her to eat that there was a growing colony of black planaria in her tank. I emptied the viv and ran the substrate, enrichment and everything in her tank through boiling water which seems to have sorted that problem out.
This has stopped her "stressed" behaviour but she's still not eating. She now hasn't eaten for two weeks now and I'm really starting to worry about her. I've tried moving her back to her original viv and putting nothing bur water and food in there to see if she's just not finding it in the larger viv, but still no luck.
Anyone got any advice?
I was recently given a female Japanese red bellied newt to look after. She is an ex-London Zoo animal (my friend works there and ended up owning her but has now given her to me).
She arrived to me healthy and well, but has since not eaten (I got her two weeks ago today). She's used to eating frozen blood worm which is what my friend gave me to feed her. I have changed the viv she is in as I had a bigger one and figured I might as well give her as much space to roam about as possible.
However every time I drop some frozen bloodworm in she doesn't eat any. For a few days she was acting a bit stressed; swimming around the sides of the viv and into the corners and trying to haul herself out, so I moved her into a spare room where the radiator isn't on so it's cooler and she isn't under any direct light, as well as making her a fixed raft in the corner of the viv which she can now find (I think she didn't realise there was a raft floating about). I also noticed that because she wasn't eating and I was leaving food in her viv longer than I probably should to try and encourage her to eat that there was a growing colony of black planaria in her tank. I emptied the viv and ran the substrate, enrichment and everything in her tank through boiling water which seems to have sorted that problem out.
This has stopped her "stressed" behaviour but she's still not eating. She now hasn't eaten for two weeks now and I'm really starting to worry about her. I've tried moving her back to her original viv and putting nothing bur water and food in there to see if she's just not finding it in the larger viv, but still no luck.
Anyone got any advice?