Red salamander won't eat.

[Cloppy]

So I have him setup with a 10 gallon tank with gently flowing cold water and lots of moss, but We will not eat. I put small earthworms in front of him, and he is not interested in them. He just waddles away or keeps going about his burrowing. He will stare at them but there is no feeding response.

 

[Aron1234]

Throw in some small crickets and isopods I'm sure it'll find them. I have one in a ten gallon that's all water with a sponge filter and I feed him earthworms and I get an amazing feeding response

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[sde]

That's one of the problems with collecting animals, it takes extra effort to acclimate them to captivity. Give him some time, let him settle in, and try again. Also, leave some food in the tank right before you turn his lights off for the night, he may eat them overnight.

 

[Sith the turtle]

I also advise having him in a darker room, and having you leave whenever you feed him, so he doesn't have a "giant predator" glaring him down when he attempts to find food. Also, worth asking, are the earthworms too large for him? And are they the "red wiggler" worms? Red wigglers, if you did get them, release a horrible yellow fluid that makes them inedible to all but the most stubborn, hungry, or inexperienced animals. Canadian night-crawlers are the better worm, as they're nutritious and don't have any defense mechanisms like that

 

[Cloppy]

No, they are not red wrigglers. And also about 10 isopods and 2 earthworms seem to have disappeared in the last 2 days so he might be eating them.

 

[AdvythAF]

You could try other types of foods. In the wild, caudates have a very, very diverse menu. Maybe try some beetles, roaches, or termites? (depends on how large the animal is)

 

[juliesr]

What temperature are you keeping him at? How much water? What kind of land portion? A 10 gallon for a recently caught animal is pretty small and hard to keep parameters in check. I would suggest no smaller than a 20-gallon long aquarium and replicate the environment you took him from starting with water quality and temperatures. If you can't replicate his environment than I would suggest not keeping him.