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What commercial foods would be good for red-spotted newts? I have already tried HBH and Reptomin food sticks...
 
Most off the shelf products are not accepted by notos. They generally prefer live foods, chopped earthworms being superior. With a bit of work you may be able to get them eating frozen foods from a toothpick. If they are fully aquatic, they can be trained to free feed off frozen if you mix some in with their blackworms and earthworms slowly over time. I prefer Hikari brand frozen foods.
 
I use Reptomin and OSI brand pellets as part of a varied diet for all of my caudates. I presoak the pellets and then offer them individually via forceps. Overall most all of my animals readily accept them however there are individual exceptions. For the record I do not keep notos however.
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