Holiday food for tylos

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Hi Guys Any one got any tips on food to get a friend to drop into my tanks while im away for a week or so ?. Usefull pellets any thing just to keep them going.Regards KB
 
Letting them go unfed has almost zero risk to their health. Letting your friend put in pellets (or just about any other food) has a significant risk. I've heard too many stories (including my own) of owners coming home to tanks with mucked up water and sometimes dead animals. Newtsitters are rarely as diligent with cleaning as they are with feeding. If newts are robust and kept cool enough, they can go more than 2 weeks without food, and this is usually the safest approach.
 
I usually stock my tanks with earthworms; they burrow into the sand and under the rocks and other fixtures in my tanks and emerge at night, when the newts are hunting. That way, I can just drop a fresh glob of worms into each tank every couple of weeks and let nature take it's course. They survive fine underwater, but the tank needs to have plenty of places for the worms to hide, otherwise they tend to get ragged about by curious newts until they die, even when the newts are full.
 
I agree completely with Jen. Better to provide clean water, cool temperatures, and no food at all for a couple of weeks.
 
Ditto what Jen and Frog Eyes say. For healthy, robust newts kept at normal temperatures I would even stretch to 3 weeks without food with no risk of starvation. Sick newts sometimes linger for months and months without food showing how well adapted they are to cope with lean times. Rotting food in an aquarium will kill a newt much faster than no food.
 
Last winter I did not feed any of my tylo's for three months and they were all fine.
Chip
 
Was this be the same for verrucosus as there such a greedy newt
 
Hi Thanks for that guys mine are still quite small and close to morphing they are well fed so I wll see if they can go hungry for a few days regards KB
 
Hi apologies for the bump but just curious I have read about newts being fine for a week without food Incase of a holiday. Just curious what would anyone recommend in the case of tylototriton species
 
An aquatic newt/sal needs to eat more often than a terrestrial one. I assume your verrucosus are aquatic? They could certainly go for a week (assuming they are healthy and plump to begin with). It's still advisable for someone to look in on them every day or two. For an absence of more than a week, you should have someone feed them, but aim at significant UNDERfeeding.
 
Thanks feedback just read this and was curious but luckily enough have flat mates always around if did have to leave
 
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