Question: what age do chinese fire bellied newts start breeding

[hogy33]

what age do chinese fire bellied newts start breeding, and also can someone point me towards a good site showing with pictures how to sex newts
Thankyou

 

[Mark]

It will take anything between 1-3 years for them to become sexually mature.

There's a really great care sheet here: http://www.caudata.org/cc/species/Cynops/C_orientalis.shtml

And an article on sexing newts here: http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/sexing.shtml