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    Firebelly natural sunlit tank

    I never clean this tank just top up the water soil and clayball substrate been running for three years the newts are fine without a lid my cat drinks from it but the newts dont seem to care some plants i took from outside and some i took from my fishtanks that have since gone aereal. sun light...
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    Mobile foto of cynops

    Just some mobile pictures to browse through
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    Is my orientallis dying?

    Today i saw a very strange behaviour. the newt was clambering over some bogwood then he sort of raised both arms and they satyed raised position and he sort of floated off the bogwood alittle. his eyes then looked whitish. it looked like i had just watched him die.i got really worried and put my...
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    Set up a dirt 30g for firebellies

    Hi ive recently been experimenting with dirt tanks in my aquariums. Ive created this thirty gallon terrarium using clayballs for the land mass; to create the steep hills, and I put a layer of already soaked soil (out of a broken down aquarium) on the top to weigh down the clayballs, and to give...
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    What to do with eggs of cynops orientalis?

    I tried to rehouse them in a 5 gallon but the went cloudy then mouldy. If I leave them in the tank they are eaten. At the moment i have them in a waxworm tub floating in the water. I think so far so good although im not sure that the eggs are even fertilised. They are a dark brown on one side...
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    Urgent!!! eggs found some questions on what to do.

    Hello i think my cynops orientalis has started to lay eggs. i have three newts no idea on sex.there are two eggs both are wrapped in a different leaf. they have a clear outer (egg white) and a white yoke. are these fertile? question two. the other newts are beggining to find there whearabouts...
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    Found this online and i need answers

    It says, is this normal? id like to know if anybody does. While i have your attention i was searching for pictures of cynops orientalis natural habitat. if anybody has a link or something that would be cool. normal newt? - Aquariums Forum - GardenWeb i shouldn't laugh at this image but my...
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    Fire belly oddly leaving the water

    Suddenly one of my fire bellies has left the water twice in a day, and except without my knowledge they havent left the water in a year. should i be worried? do a major clean up? i dont know? just makes me think there is something ive done to the water. hes back being aquaric after falling off a...
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    Biological filter

    I have much elodea in my ten gallon and a land area where plants also root down into the water section substrate, 3 cynops orientalis, 5 cherry shrimp, no machine filter. I have not been changing the water because of being inundated with fish fry. I always check the newts as when i introduced...
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    Fat little b*$%^&ds

    My fire bellies are really fat, I do not even need to describe it they just look really fat. I dont know the sex but I doubt they are pregnant. I was so desperate to get them eating that Ive gone totally overboard with wax worms and crickets and blood worms. they are extremely happy there is no...
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    Getting these plants growing ???????

    Hello I have been determined to create a biofilter in my cynops orientalis tank. I began by taking basic pond weed (not duckweed) from a pond. This worked well and began to grow but then failed. I have now bought the greener equivalent from the pet shop (It is several long shoots with short...
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    Fire bellied newts + waxworms

    I just fed my fire bellied newts a wax worm each and they loved them. So much so, one of them after eating his tried to steal the other newts worm and they got into a kind of alligator death roll which i had to break up with my finger. I was wondering how often i can give them these worms?
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    Commando newt protesting against water?

    THE FACTS I recently converted a fish tank into a newt tank. it has an external filter that i have flowing over rocks (a waterfall) into the water (there is little current so i have extended the suction pipe to consume water from the opposite end of the tank from the waterfall, is...
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