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 Help!chinese FBN wont eat

what do i do i tried feeding him baby pinhead crickets,bloodworms and baby reptomon and i cant find anything that i think he would eat!
12/09/07  05:49pm

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 Help!chinese FBN wont eat

sorry i meant to write baby ReptoMin lol


PLEASE ANSWER
12/09/07  05:56pm

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 Help!chinese FBN wont eat

PLEASE ANSWER!
12/09/07  06:22pm

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 Help!chinese FBN wont eat

How long have you had it?
12/09/07  08:00pm

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Potatoman
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   Message To: Keechoo   In reference to Message Id: 1541208


 Help!chinese FBN wont eat

about a month.i keep putting blood worms in hoping he will eat them but wen i see him theyre either still where i put them or theyre in the water.



12/10/07  09:05am

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Keechoo
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   Message To: Potatoman   In reference to Message Id: 1541826


 Help!chinese FBN wont eat

Sometimes they need extra time to get acclimated. I would keep trying. I thought my FBN wasn’t eating until I found him catching them in his cricket rock.
12/10/07  12:46pm

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 Help!chinese FBN wont eat

this post may be dead but :
try holding the pinhead by its head using tweezers an put half its body in the water just above your newt.
When i do this with mine the crickets move there legs which attracts the newts as they see the movement.
01/20/08  09:04am

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Potatoman
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   Message To: Hedgehoge   In reference to Message Id: 1586584


 Help!chinese FBN wont eat

thx sometimes i come on this forum aand i usually check this so thx.i tried it and i got him to eat 1!lol fingers crossed 4 tomorrow.
01/22/08  06:35pm

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   Message To: Potatoman   In reference to Message Id: 1541024


 Help!chinese FBN wont eat

Try providing it with a semi-aquatic environment. Some specimens, when they aren’t in breeding condition, prefer to live on land. I have one like this in my collection that has been doing well for a couple of years. The setup is basically a 10 gallon aqua-terrarium with a woodland area where I have a few flat slate rocks under which it likes to hide, and a water area just a couple of inches deep, with some aquatic plants. This portion is separated by an inclined strip of glass, beveled at the edges, and cemented in place with silicone. I use a fluorescent light overhead, mainly for the benefit of the plants. I also have some red-spotted newts in the same setup that seem to divide their time between the land and water.

The firebelly seems to basically prefer the land area, and tends to hide under one particular rock, but can be tempted to snap at any small cricket or worm that is dangled before it with a broomstraw.
So, why not try a setup like this and see if there is any improvement?
03/18/08  07:05pm

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   Message To: Potatoman   In reference to Message Id: 1541024


 Help!chinese FBN wont eat

Some specimens can be coaxed into eating by placing them overnight into a small "playpen" consisting of a plastic Tupperware container with small air holes in the top, filled with a one inch substrate of damp soil. Just drop some very small worms, pinhead crickets, or woodlice in with the newt, and unless it is sick, you’ll see that it will start hunting them!
03/18/08  07:30pm


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