Fire belly newts..?

Thanks for all the great input. Do u think if i would drill some holes in there that would work? How dirty do you think this would make my water?
 
I guess it would depend on what you use under the plants. If you use a substrate like flourite or echo-complete...it wouldn't dirty the water at all. You would just get the occasional flake of substrate that's small enough to fit through the holes...which would just drift to the bottom of the tank.

Personally I like the echo-complete because it does look an awful lot like dirt and is a good start for your plants with all the nutrients and stuff it has in it. the down side to it is that it's pretty expensive. Flourite works just as well though.
 
What's flourite? Could I get that at, say, petco? And it won't dirty my water?

Would potting soil like miraclegro work? Or will that dirty my water?

BTW, today I went to my LFS and took a look at their firebellys. Only had one today, and it was in the corner. About 3 inches in legnth, but skinny and so tiny! Emg, how many inches would you say yours is?
 
Does anyone know where i could order some fire belly online. i can't find them anywhere. and the pet store won't order any. Thanks
 
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O4cobra, my LFS always has them in stock. They shoudl be fairly common. If you ask your LFS, they should stock them easily(not petco or big chain store).

If not, try this site: http://www.caudata.org/forum/ and check out the classified and make a wanted ad.
 
Some places won't sell certain things because they are illegal where you live. I think I recall some folks saying they couldn't get newts in S. Cal because they are concerned they would get loose in the wild and survive...pushing out native species....

Potting soil would probably dirty up the water....cause it to become cloudy. The flourite won't do that because it's really grains of iron rich clay. But...the thing about flourite is that it's such an incredible pain to wash all the dust off of it to begin with...lol....you have to rinse that stuff...and rinse it...and rinse it...etc..etc...etc....till the cows come home !!!

But if you take just a little bit at a time and rinse it out good it shouldn't be too difficult. Put some in the bottom of a bucket and just let the water run and run....outside preferably....until the cloudiness is rinsed from it. Keep stirring with your hands too to keep the dust up until most of it rinses out.

Forgot to tell you that last time around....lol.....sorry...

and yes...you may be able to find it at PetSmart..that's where I got my bag from.

Good luck, have fun ! :)
 
Emg said:
Some places won't sell certain things because they are illegal where you live. I think I recall some folks saying they couldn't get newts in S. Cal because they are concerned they would get loose in the wild and survive...pushing out native species....

Potting soil would probably dirty up the water....cause it to become cloudy. The flourite won't do that because it's really grains of iron rich clay. But...the thing about flourite is that it's such an incredible pain to wash all the dust off of it to begin with...lol....you have to rinse that stuff...and rinse it...and rinse it...etc..etc...etc....till the cows come home !!!

But if you take just a little bit at a time and rinse it out good it shouldn't be too difficult. Put some in the bottom of a bucket and just let the water run and run....outside preferably....until the cloudiness is rinsed from it. Keep stirring with your hands too to keep the dust up until most of it rinses out.

Forgot to tell you that last time around....lol.....sorry...

and yes...you may be able to find it at PetSmart..that's where I got my bag from.

Good luck, have fun ! :)
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Thanks a lot EMG, i am having no luck at all on finding the fire bellys do you know of any other ones that are cool to have i was thinking eastern newts? what do you think? thanks
 
04cobra, have you finished setting up the tank?

I'd love to see some updated pictures ASAP!
 
WinterWind said:
04cobra, have you finished setting up the tank?

I'd love to see some updated pictures ASAP!
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WW, also for potting soil you can use water garden potting soil, that is like flourite, I have a huge bag of it and use it in my tanks, another product you can use is the clay kitty litter, if you wash it out thoroughly it should do nicely. But you gotta get the Clay litter only, and its dirt cheap.
 
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