Nickj10
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Hi everyone,
We have two tylototriton shanjing (Emperor Newt) that are around 5 months old. We have had them for about 2 and a half months. We are feeding them mostly mealworms with occasional wax worms and night crawlers. One of the newts eats daily, recognizes us when we walk by and sticks his head straight up when he wants food eating very quickly. The other one eats roughly every 5-6 days despite us trying daily she does not have the same head raise behavior that the other one does when she wants food, and she is not very good at grabbing the worm from the tweezers. She will often miss quite a few times, sometimes leading her to give up and no longer try for the food, whereas the other newt grabs the worm quickly. Both look healthy and move similar amounts. They are tweezer/fed.
We are somewhat worried as one newt is growing somewhat quicker as he is eating much more. We hope both newts will take to feeding more frequently as they are juveniles. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we can facilitate this, and if we are doing anything wrong? Any tips for feeding to help the other newt get more accustomed? Is this within the realm of normal?
Thank you!
I have attached photos of the set up. They are primarily terrestrial with a permanent small pond in the center of the tank created by laying a dish in the stone and covering it with rocks.
We have two tylototriton shanjing (Emperor Newt) that are around 5 months old. We have had them for about 2 and a half months. We are feeding them mostly mealworms with occasional wax worms and night crawlers. One of the newts eats daily, recognizes us when we walk by and sticks his head straight up when he wants food eating very quickly. The other one eats roughly every 5-6 days despite us trying daily she does not have the same head raise behavior that the other one does when she wants food, and she is not very good at grabbing the worm from the tweezers. She will often miss quite a few times, sometimes leading her to give up and no longer try for the food, whereas the other newt grabs the worm quickly. Both look healthy and move similar amounts. They are tweezer/fed.
We are somewhat worried as one newt is growing somewhat quicker as he is eating much more. We hope both newts will take to feeding more frequently as they are juveniles. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we can facilitate this, and if we are doing anything wrong? Any tips for feeding to help the other newt get more accustomed? Is this within the realm of normal?
Thank you!
I have attached photos of the set up. They are primarily terrestrial with a permanent small pond in the center of the tank created by laying a dish in the stone and covering it with rocks.