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Hello

I have five "red stomach" salamanders (the most common in petstores). They are now about 1cm and have front legs and big gills. My questions is, how do they eat beacuse I have never ever seen them eating. They are swimming around though and seem healthy?
 
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Rolle85 said:
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I have five "red stomach" salamanders (the most common in petstores). They are now about 1cm and have front legs and big gills. My questions is, how do they eat beacuse I have never ever seen them eating. They are swimming around though and seem healthy?
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It sounds like you’ve bought some newt larvae. Did you ask what they ate when you purchased them? Did the store offer any advice? Seems like a curious purchase to make without doing some research first.

Newt larvae eat tiny live food. See: http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/microfoods.shtml

If on the other hand you are asking how they eat…

They usually lunge at anything which moves and will fit in their mouth. If you feed them an appropriate food i.e. live daphnia or baby brine shrimp you should see them hopping around snapping at the food as it swims past.
 
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Did you buy them in a pet-shop? That sounds awfully unusual...
 
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azhael said:
Did you buy them in a pet-shop? That sounds awfully unusual...
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I bought two fishes and mentioned to the petshop owners that I saw a lot of salamander babies in one of the tanks then they asked me if I wanted a couple of them for free so I said go ahead.
They said that they eat left overs on the bottom of the tank.
 
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O_O Now that´s weird...
Are you sure they are larvae from a "firebelly newt"? If you can, please post a couple of pictures, i´m really curious. I´m inclined to thinking they are probbly axolotl larve....
Whatever they are, the won´t eat left-overs from the bottom. They need LIVE food...this is very important, specially during the first weeks.
Also, you can´t keep them with fish, they need to be completely lone and kept cool.
 
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azhael said:
O_O Now that´s weird...
Are you sure they are larvae from a "firebelly newt"? If you can, please post a couple of pictures, i´m really curious. I´m inclined to thinking they are probbly axolotl larve....
Whatever they are, the won´t eat left-overs from the bottom. They need LIVE food...this is very important, specially during the first weeks.
Also, you can´t keep them with fish, they need to be completely lone and kept cool.
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Hmm it seems like they do not sell that small food in Sweden that O would need right now...I could have caught food in a lake or so but since it is full of ice right now there seem to be not much to do =(
 
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Do you have other aquariums? If so, the debris in the bottom of the tanks is a rich source of very tiny micro-organisms. This can nourish the larvae when they are small. As they get bigger, they need larger food. Try to find live bloodworms or blackworms or tubifex. Also, if you can get a starter culture of whiteworms (Enchytraeus), they are easy to grow.
 
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