Fire belly newts..?

[fisheewishee]

your 5 gallon tank, what size is it? im having trouble finding how many gallons/litres mine is! id prefere it in litres because uk us gallons are different.

my tank is 48x18x15 for my axolotls

I have two different kinds of fire bellied newts that i read, need a 15 gallon tank for four so i need a couple of 15 gal tanks as i have 4 of each newt but dunno what size

 

[Emg]

gallons....liters....I dont' have a clue....LOL ! I never did learn the metric system.

 

[Nuriel]

http://www.aquahobby.com/articles/e_convert.php
check out this link for conversion.

 

[04cobratorchred]

Hey EMG, what do you feed your newts and how offten thanks.

 

[Emg]

I feed the mostly freeze dried tubifex worms and occasionally live black worms. Since it's warmed up around here now, I will go out and dig up some small earthworms and offer those to them too. I'm sure they'll love them !

I feed them about every other day....and they don't always accept the food at that. I've had them for several months...maybe since Nov or so.

Here's a close up of the platform section...

 

[WinterWind]

EMG, how do you plant the plants and root them down? I see that you use the black platform and then a layer of soil. How do you get enough dirt to be able to plant them, or are they in pots?

 

[Emg]

I don't have much substrate on there at all. The plant was in a wad of that felt like stuff. I had removed most of it but kept some on. The fern was in a clump of it's own soil and I just plopped it down in there. The root ball on them pretty much holds them up and the moss helps as well.

I used plexiglass for the platform and the substrate is Echo-Complete, which is a dark almost black product. Looks very much like dirt.

 

[WinterWind]

Do the plants grow OK with that set up?

Do you think I would be able to use planting soil like miracle gro to plant them?

 

[tricksterpup]

Very impressive and very nice EMG.. I having been planning on converting a 10 gallon to a newt tank here in the next few weeks.
I picked up a filter for the tank, its the hagen stingray. its an in water filter.

This would help with a stream like effect.
I also plan to use this for the land. the Zoomed Turtle dock
I think this might be more suitable than silicone some land.

But my hopes are to get some actual eastern newts instead of firebelly but now that I have a spare 5 gallon down stairs.

 

[WinterWind]

Can you compare eastern newts and fire-bellied newts (chinese)? Are the eastern spotted newts larger than the fire-bellied? Are they more active? And what do they eat, how easily do they take food? Thanks.

I think I might have seen some eastern newts at the LFS.