Crawled out of the water. Bad?

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One of my newts, Isaac I noticed had crawled out of the water and was curled up and dry (not dried OUT, but dry) on the log he had, been there since last night. Is this a bad sign? I had just done a partial water change (1/3 the water for CONDITIONED water). He's still moving.
 
don't worry i'm sure he will go back in to the water soon enough in fact depending on what species he is this is probably natural behaviour
 
Chinese fire belly. okay, I was worried as he was all curled up and looked a bit dry. :)

They're eating though, yay.
 
chinese fire bellies do occaisionally climb out of the water. he is probably just dry from being out of the water but he will soon go back in if he feels too dry. so dont worry! especially if hes eating
 
on the topic of eating, how much is enough food? They ate every scrap I put in last night and I only saw one newt actually eating so I dont even know if the other one got any nummies. I'm feeding them bloodworms every 2-3 days.
 
feeding them every couple of days should be fine for two CFB newts. i assume you mean the little packets of bloodworms you can get?
 
Its frozen bloodworms. I thaw out half a cube at a time, and normally they get most of that and my Betta gets the rest. Works out to maybe a half to quarter teaspoon.
 
Update: Came home for lunch, he had swum off again. All is well I guess :)
 
thats fine i have Paddletails but i was looking for CFBs before i got them so i know a bit about them. i feed my paddletails the same and they are fine with that
 
Horsetuna said:
Chinese fire belly. okay, I was worried as he was all curled up and looked a bit dry. :)

They're eating though, yay.
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My Japanese Fire Belly does the same thing, becoming pale and desiccated-looking but still very much alive and fairly healthy. We aimed a waterfall-style filter onto her rock ... problem solved. The water trickles down, she stays moist and happy, and also seems more active as well; she occasionally prances around beneath the falling water then curls up and rests until feeding time.

They're certainly friendly little things, aren't they? ... if I put my finger out near her head, she wraps her forelegs around my digit and I can lift her out easily. It makes tank cleaning a bit easier.
 
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Heavens, no! She has her own tank. :)
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I was gonna say, that would be an expensive lunch!

Reading over my post was quite funny, I keep bettas too and more than once I've emntioned them and had some one 'Together?!' just like that.
 
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