Toothcat
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I got 3 firebellys about a year ago. Sadly one died, but the other two are very happy. I was concerned for a while that one was a much better hunter than the other because it got very fat, so I changed up feeding so there wasn't so much competition between them. However in cleaning the tank today I noticed BABIES so the fat one must have been full of eggs!
They look like miniatures of the adults but with frilly gills and the biggest is 3/4 inch long nose to tail tip. I have no idea how many there are because the substrate is large gravel from a local river (maybe 1 inch diameter) and the little ones can crawl deep down between to hide. They poke their little heads up sometimes and I've only seen 3 at once.
Questions:
Do I really need to separate the adults and babies? I'm not sure about setting up another tank $ wise. I don't know how to move babies without crushing them.
How to feed them? Today I got frozen brine shrimp and chopped blood worms I tried using a turkey baster to get it in the rocks but don't know if they eat. There seems to be lots of flies and worms in the tank, either from food or because I barely washed the substrate from the river. I think they eat those and leftovers the adults can't reach.
What do I do if they make it to morphing & how will I know? Now that I've done some research here I think the one that died originally wasn't done its terrestrial phase. It sat out of the water until it almost dried up, then dove in and drowned. I think my tank is too aquatic for raising them.
They look like miniatures of the adults but with frilly gills and the biggest is 3/4 inch long nose to tail tip. I have no idea how many there are because the substrate is large gravel from a local river (maybe 1 inch diameter) and the little ones can crawl deep down between to hide. They poke their little heads up sometimes and I've only seen 3 at once.
Questions:
Do I really need to separate the adults and babies? I'm not sure about setting up another tank $ wise. I don't know how to move babies without crushing them.
How to feed them? Today I got frozen brine shrimp and chopped blood worms I tried using a turkey baster to get it in the rocks but don't know if they eat. There seems to be lots of flies and worms in the tank, either from food or because I barely washed the substrate from the river. I think they eat those and leftovers the adults can't reach.
What do I do if they make it to morphing & how will I know? Now that I've done some research here I think the one that died originally wasn't done its terrestrial phase. It sat out of the water until it almost dried up, then dove in and drowned. I think my tank is too aquatic for raising them.