Help with FBN paludarium

Good day all. I will be getting my first ever firebelly newt in two weeks and I would like some advice on my setup. The person I am getting them from said they have been out of metamorphosis stage for about 2 months. By my research I have found out that they are still very land based, so I wanted a tank with both land and water but not too deep so thats why my design works for me. Please tell me if this is good enough for a juvenile newt. Thanks

Welcome to the forums! It looks nice! What size is it? I have used similar setups for a long time. I highly suggest you feed them on a dish or paper towel so they don't eat gravel by accident. Juveniles are clumsy and can swallow gravel when trying to eat, especially live food. Update us with a pic of your first newt when you get him!

It looks nice but maybe you could take some gravel out and keep just a shallow layer. It's easier to clean! I had guite a lot gravel and stones at first but I've taken most out because I couldn't handle it. And it's good to have gravel size bigger than the newts head so it can't swallow it accidentally (people use sand or bare bottom, too). Good luck with your new newts, they are nice animals!

Set ups like that look nice, but aren't the best for a few reasons. Firstly the gravel will trap dirt and quickly make the water area unhygienic and the heaped up substrate land area will do the same. In addition to that the water area is much too small to be able to keep water quality and temperature stable for any length of time.
If the newt you're getting is genuinely a captive bred juvenile, the best set up would be a bare container with a damp paper towel substrate, a small, easily accessible water dish and some small hides for shelter. Although a tank like that doesn't look so good, I've found it to be the best way of keeping very young juveniles. As they get older and bigger, they can be transferred into a shallow aquarium that's crammed with live plants to prevent drowning until they eventually start to swim and submerge. After that you can slowly raise the water level until the aquarium is almost full with just a small island or cork float for a land area.
Tanks that have a 50/50 land/water area aren't really suitable for most newts as they are either fully aquatic or seasonally aquatic, so 50% of a land/water set up is always wasted.

Thanks for the advice. After doing a bit of research on here I have decided to go with a sand bottom with a cork float. I loved the look of my first idea but when I tried to clean my shallow water it was pretty much impossible while using my python, which waste so much water.

That's actually much better, though I would put another little hide space for it to hide in