WHATS A GOOD NEWT DIET

[bruce]

<font color="ff0000"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica"><font size="+1">IM NEW AT THIS NEWT KEEPING. I WAS TOLD TO FEED MY LITTLE FELLAS NEWT PELLETS AND AN OCCASIONAL CRICKET.THEY LOVE THE CRICKETS.I FEED THEM EVERY 2-DAYS.ANY INPUT WOULD BE APPRECIATED.THANKS BRUCE</font></font></font>

 

[jennie]

I have Chinese fire-bellies, and I feed them frozen blood worms mostly, they don't really go for the pellets.

 

[jennifer]

The diet that is nutritionally best and easiest to obtain is usually earthworms and bloodworms. See:
http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/foods.shtml
(Also you may want to read the FAQ.)

 

[elizabeth]

<font color="ff6000">Bruce, which are you referring when saying: chinese red bellied newts? Cynops pyrrhogaster or orientalis? How about feeding earthworms, chopped nightcrawlers, glass shrimp, waxworms, bloodworms.</font>

 

[samuel]

Should be Orientalis, but again, most petstores owners are dishonest imbeciles. Bruce, perhaps u can tell us the size of ur newts. I'll go with the jennewt diet.