Shelleyf
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Hi,
I got into Newts about 4 years ago when I convinced my Fiance then boyfriend to get a fire belly newt after he killed all of his fish. My cousin has a 20 year old fire belly and he does nothing with it so I figured it was a fool proof pet.
He ended up getting a male and a female. They laid eggs but none survived past a few weeks. The mother escaped from the tank and died as result. Once we moved in together we got a new female newt and now we have Highlander their surviving offspring from 12 eggs laid back in march. the poor little guy isn't developing the way I had hoped but he's as active as ever and has the cutest little newt toes.
Most of my pet experience is around Land hermit crabs so I hope to learn lots about keeping fire bellys and possibly other newts in the future.
Biggest newt pet peeve is how our local pet store keeps newts and fiddler crabs in the same enclosure. Any suggestions on how to stop this practice would be most helpful.
I got into Newts about 4 years ago when I convinced my Fiance then boyfriend to get a fire belly newt after he killed all of his fish. My cousin has a 20 year old fire belly and he does nothing with it so I figured it was a fool proof pet.
He ended up getting a male and a female. They laid eggs but none survived past a few weeks. The mother escaped from the tank and died as result. Once we moved in together we got a new female newt and now we have Highlander their surviving offspring from 12 eggs laid back in march. the poor little guy isn't developing the way I had hoped but he's as active as ever and has the cutest little newt toes.
Most of my pet experience is around Land hermit crabs so I hope to learn lots about keeping fire bellys and possibly other newts in the future.
Biggest newt pet peeve is how our local pet store keeps newts and fiddler crabs in the same enclosure. Any suggestions on how to stop this practice would be most helpful.
