They are so tiny!

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I picked up my Fire Belly newts and ADF'f today and they are soo tiny. They ended up gathering up 6 instead of 5 newts, so I had to get the extra one. ;)
I had planned on 6 ADF's but they only had 5, so it balanced out.

They all looked so small, so I decided to try and feed them. The frogs didn't touch the sinking pellets at all, but I did hand feed the newts! I put in some frozen bloodworm, but they weren't interested, so I picked them up and dangled them in front of their faces and all but one ate. The biggest one didn't...so I thought that was funny. Five out of six prefer the floating log or doc's and one is swimming around checking out the new diggs. I'm going to attempt some pics :D... be back soon.
 
I'm going to attempt some pics :D... be back soon.

You better do since this is the Photo & Video Gallery! ;)

It would have been helpful for someone like me to have a description for "ADF". Out of your signature I can see that you mean "African Dwarf Frogs".
 
They all looked so small, so I decided to try and feed them. The frogs didn't touch the sinking pellets at all, but I did hand feed the newts!
If the dwarf frogs are Hymenochirus spp. Then they'll need either live foods or frozen bloodworms. They'll rarely eat sinking pellet foods right from the beginning, they go more by movement. If they are just baby Xenopus then they'll probably eat the pellets.
 
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Sorry about the delay with the pics. I'm having camera issues... I thought my rechargable batteries were dead, so I went out and got brand new ones and it still won't turn on.:mad:
I went ahead and put the new batteries on the charger to get them nice and hot and hopefully that will work... this camera is retarded (Kodak EasyShare). Their isn't anything easy about this camera....
 
Pics:


Newts:

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Feeding bloodworms:

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Frogs:

Hiding frog:

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Peeking out:

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Can you see me?

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