IanF
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I'd like to know if anyone can inform when I will be able to tell when my two newts are ready to convert back to water.
I understand some people keep them fully aquatic as they don't require a juvenile eft stage- but that also requires higher temperatures in the water and my room stays around 17C in the winter so I decided to keep them terrestrially until the temperature rises outside which it soon will.
However, they are now reaching 9 months old so soon they'll be a year- at which point I understand it is common practice to convert them back to aquatic (by this time it will be around 23 C in my room at least). How should I go about this and what should I look for behaviour wise, i.e, will they eat less, more and will they just slowly start going into the water more often.
I understand some people keep them fully aquatic as they don't require a juvenile eft stage- but that also requires higher temperatures in the water and my room stays around 17C in the winter so I decided to keep them terrestrially until the temperature rises outside which it soon will.
However, they are now reaching 9 months old so soon they'll be a year- at which point I understand it is common practice to convert them back to aquatic (by this time it will be around 23 C in my room at least). How should I go about this and what should I look for behaviour wise, i.e, will they eat less, more and will they just slowly start going into the water more often.