Help needed with newt larvae

superfin · Mar 3, 2009

My Chinese fire bellies have given birth and the little sprogs are swimming all over the tank.I have had no time to prepare and I am freaking out!

I have fished the little guys out but would somebody tell me what to do because I am not experiences with this.:shocked:

Chris:wacko:

Mark · Mar 3, 2009

Firstly, read this: http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/raising.shtml

superfin · Mar 3, 2009

I've read it and I have prepared two shallow containers of water and I have put some stress coat in to get rid of the chlorine,should I wait a while longer or should i put the larvae in the containers right away?

Chris:wacko:

p.s sorry about the title I was just very exited

superfin · Mar 4, 2009

Please could someone help,they are not eating the food and they already look like mini versions of an axolotl,is this normal or are they just not eating the food.I am feeding them frozen daphnia but none take any interest to it.

Chris:dizzy:

slowfoot · Mar 4, 2009

Very small newt larvae will usually need live, moving prey. Try some live daphnia. Also, read this:
http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/raising.shtml

superfin · Mar 4, 2009

How long do you think they will live without food because I can't get live food at the moment.But hopefully I can get some tomorrow.Will they live until then?

Jennewt · Mar 4, 2009

Yes, they'll live until tomorrow. Leave them in the parents' tank until you have food for them. A well-aged aquarium usually has some native micro-organisms in it that larvae can eat.

superfin · Mar 5, 2009

Are you sure the parents wont eat them? because I only found 8 in my tank and I hear there can be up to 200.But anyway they survived the night and i'll try to get some live food later.When I get it I'll tell you what I have because I'm not so sure right now.

chris:wacko:

superfin · Mar 5, 2009

What should I do?,I asked my parents to feed the newts because I had to go out(i didnt have enough time to explain how to feed them.They put the daphnia in with the newts but they didn't drain the water from the bag of daphnia and it was very salty.Suprisingly they all survived but two have the apperance of death but when I tried to fish them out they squirmed in the net.I am going to exclude them but I'm not sure whether I should kill them (to put them out of there pain) or not

chris

slowfoot · Mar 5, 2009

Daphnia shouldn't be salty. Do you mean brine shrimp? As for the sick larvae, I would just leave them - many young larvae sit motionless for hours. Just let nature take its course.

superfin · Mar 5, 2009

I am not sure about the daphnia and it doesnt matter.But youre right about the newts they reccovered in an hour:happy:

chris:wacko:

Jennewt · Mar 5, 2009

Most firebelly newts aren't very interested in eating their larvae. If the adults are hungry, they will. And there may be specific adults that go after them, but mostly they leave larvae alone. I would actually encourage you to leave a few of the larvae in the adults' tank and see how it goes. They often do better there than in a separate container.

If it was brine shrimp you bought for them, these are too big for young larvae.

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