Hi there,
I wonder if someone has any ideas here. I have a paddletailed newt which, for the past year or so, has only been eating worms. Prior to last summer he ate pretty much everything I gave him ... dried bloodworms, pellets, chicken heart, mealworms, crickets, etc. Then I had to leave him in the "care" of a pet store while I was on vacation, and on my return he had narrowed his diet drastically. I've no idea why, but now he refuses everything except live worms.
This might not seem like such a problem to those with access to bait shops, Walmarts and the like, but here in metropolitan Taipei no such thing exists, and worms can only be wrestled from the ground of parks and patches of wasteground.
Now, after a bit of a dry spell, I'm having no luck finding any worms at my usual spots. Does anybody know if it's possible to wean newts off worms and onto something more convenient instead? If so, how?
Many thanks in advance!
I wonder if someone has any ideas here. I have a paddletailed newt which, for the past year or so, has only been eating worms. Prior to last summer he ate pretty much everything I gave him ... dried bloodworms, pellets, chicken heart, mealworms, crickets, etc. Then I had to leave him in the "care" of a pet store while I was on vacation, and on my return he had narrowed his diet drastically. I've no idea why, but now he refuses everything except live worms.
This might not seem like such a problem to those with access to bait shops, Walmarts and the like, but here in metropolitan Taipei no such thing exists, and worms can only be wrestled from the ground of parks and patches of wasteground.
Now, after a bit of a dry spell, I'm having no luck finding any worms at my usual spots. Does anybody know if it's possible to wean newts off worms and onto something more convenient instead? If so, how?
Many thanks in advance!