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    Lol, thanks!

    I will be bringing these since they're very low maintenance, but I think I'll be keeping these. Very fun to watch!

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    Paul, those tanks are very nice congrats. I'm very amazed how happy your newts must be in the past to be reprodicing for you as this is one of the first times I've heard of captive bred newts.
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    Thank you.

    From looking on line it's not common but not rare for firebellies to spawn. It's is odd at the temperature the water is.

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    Update on the efts. Won't eat from my tongs yet but they will forage for live worms.



    Penny for reference on their size. Cute little buggers!

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    It's been awhile since I've updated these but there have been a lot of downs on both the shrimps and newts...

    Shrimp tank:

    I decided to redo the entire set up. I was having mass casualties from either poor water quality or the break out of all the other stuff (planaria, scuds, and seed shrimp). A lot of the shrimplets were outmatched by the scuds and survival rate was low. Poor water quality led to many adult deaths (high TDS and low gH).

    I had to junk all the plants from the prior tank and since Petco was having the dollar per gallon sale I just picked up a new aquarium. Amazon has always been my friend and I found some shrimp substrate for cheap and I had a ton of ohko stone left. I pulled out as many shrimp/shrimplets as I could during the transfer and made sure not to transfer the nasty stuff over.







    Newts:

    These guys have been thriving and truly enjoy their environment. I did learn a valuable lesson with the efts. Almost all my aquariums are in my office and require a low temp in all... I live in AZ and its been well over a 100 the last week so i leave my fan on. Well because of this I dried out 4 of my 6 eft newts, now I'm left with 2.

    Since I had a spare 29 lying around I decided to transfer the adults over. The 20 long was filthy and had driftwood rotting in it so it was kinda a no brainer.


















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    man, Al would love this update!

    Very cool.

    Click here to view my 75g Acrylic Tank w/ Bean Animal Overflow with 40g Sump Thread

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    Thanks! Forgot Al was big into herping

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    Quote Originally Posted by woopaul5 View Post
    Thanks! Forgot Al was big into herping
    LOL that just sounds like...so wrong....I hope it clears up

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    Quote Originally Posted by pitdogg2 View Post
    LOL that just sounds like...so wrong....I hope it clears up
    What happens in Vegas stays in vegas

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    What? What happened now? (As I used to tell my buddy) If your gonna do that in Vegas then that's the risk your gonna take! Look at the bottle, the prescription says take these pills for two weeks to complete the cycle! Not just stop after the burning sensation goes away!

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    Just a quick update.

    Well only 3 of the babies newts survived through trial and error. Hope fully they start again this winter




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    Very cool. Very striking orange these have!

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    Since I'm home a quick update. All the baby newts have passed . But I think one may be gravid now...













    One of the shrimp tank


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    love love love the newt thread! about 10 years ago i had a tank of these guys and they also laid eggs all the time, folding the plant leaves over them to keep them hidden. they were a great pet! i could never figure out how to raise the babies tho because they always climbed up the edges of the tank and i couldnt keep them on the floor to eat. you seem to have a good system worked out tho, and love the photo updates

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    Quote Originally Posted by woopaul5 View Post
    Since I'm home a quick update. All the baby newts have passed . But I think one may be gravid now...













    One of the shrimp tank

    Love the newts. So cool. Brings back memories of my dad bringing them home from work when I was a kid.

    I run into California Tiger Salamanders all the time. They are so beautiful but unfortunately protected

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