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Live food for my newts

Booyeahkasha

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So I have been raising three fire bellied newts for about 4 monthsish and I figure I would try giving them some live food. I believe they are all full grown and they are about 4 inches long.
These are my first newts so I wasn't really sure where to start. I'm also not sure what other info one might need to help me put. So let me know what else you might need.

Thanks :]
 

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Worms are the best staple live food. Either pieces of larger worms like night crawlers available at bait shops or small garden worms are great. I have had good luck with red worms as well, but some newts will refuse them. The article Jennewt linked to is a great place to start.
 

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Thank you for the help so far. I wouldn't mind culturing my own live food for them. I have never done that before so I would be interested in trying.
 

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I second earthworms, mine love 'em :p I usually just feed them small ones from my garden around half or less the newt's size. I also tried slugs and they took them (although they were confused by how slow they were).
 
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