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My larvae morphed!!!

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Today my eurycea cirrigera larvae morphed! Now I have 2 adults and 1 larvae. Just wondering, has anyone else noticed that adults are much more shy and more reluctant to eat?
 
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If the adults are wild-caught it´s perfectly normal...they are not used to captivity, they are wild animals.
 
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The adult that I caught as an adult I understand will be shy, but I have this larvae for a few months now. He/she ate very well when it was a larvae, but now it does not seem to eat anything.
 
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What are you trying to feed it? They should do very well on pinhead crickets, springtails, and flightless fruit flies.
 
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Mine is almost entirely aquatic. It comes out of the water sometimes but never for more that a few minutes. I have an adult salamander who is almost 4 in long that is the same.
 
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Hmmm...where were the larvae collected?

You could try blackworms, whiteworms, or adult brine. Also feeding them terrestrial insects might help to persuade them to spend more time on land.
 
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