Care Sheet for Salamanders, NewtsAverage Rating Given To This Care Sheet Is 3.00 (1=lowest, 5=highest) Last Updated: 07/14/2003 |
Main Category: | Aquatic/Land |
Sub Category: | Salamanders, Newts |
Care Sheet Submitted By: | Paulo |
Years Experience: | 3 to 5 Years |
Species: | Japanese Fire Belly Newt |
Other Species or Phases this Care Sheet May Cover: | newts
fire belly newt |
Sexing and Characteristics: | ??? |
Mostly Active During: | Day |
Substrate and Water Needs: | The pet stores seem to keep them in a tank full of water with an external filter.
I prefer to keep them in a tank that is half water and a half gravel, with so moss and a cave or 2 on the gravel out of the water. |
Lighting and UVB: | I use a dome style light with a 40watt bulb on a timer to give them 9 hours of light a day. This heats the tank up to around 85 deg. I have not seen any problems from not using a UV bulb. |
Temperatures and Humidity: | Day time tempatures are about 85 deg. (with light on) and at night it slowly cools to about 76 deg. (the room temp).
I do not do anything speacial for the humidity, since half the tank is water and they have the moss and caves to hide in if the light starts to dry they too much. |
Heating and Equipment: | N/A |
Caging Provided: | 10 gallon tank with a screen top.
Two small under water filters. One to create move the water around and another that runs a fountain. |
Diet: | Carnivorous |
Description of Diet: | Freeze dried Tubifex Worms and small live crickets. |
Supplements, Nutrition and Usage: | None. |
Maintenance: | Clean out any dead crickets. Vacumme the gravel and clean the filters once a month. |
Some Words on this Species: | I will update this as I collect more information. |
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