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The Endangered Giant Panda. How to Create a Hyperlapse. What's Wrong with Science on TV? Mysteries of the Driftless Wins Emmy. If you have an aquatic salamander, feed it water organisms like live shrimp, minnows, and worms. It's best to feed adult salamanders times per week rather than every day. Be sure to sprinkle a calcium supplement on the food at every feeding and add a multi-vitamin times per week.
Never feed your salamander human food, since it won't be able to digest it. For tips on when you should feed a salamander by hand, read on! Did this summary help you? Yes No. Log in Social login does not work in incognito and private browsers. Please log in with your username or email to continue.
No account yet? Create an account. Edit this Article. We use cookies to make wikiHow great. By using our site, you agree to our cookie policy. Cookie Settings. Learn why people trust wikiHow. Download Article Explore this Article methods. Related Articles. Article Summary. Method 1. Feed land-dwelling salamanders bugs. Salamanders who live on land thrive off of a diet of worms and bugs. This salamander food can be found at most pet stores.
This sort of food provides plenty of nutrition for your salamander. Feed aquatic salamanders water organisms. They eat things that swim around in the water, like shrimp. You can also get these foods at a pet store. You may also be able to purchase them at tackle shops. They also enjoy small fish like minnows, other types of shrimp like ghost shrimp and crayfish, nightcrawlers, and worms like earthworms and blackworms.
Choose appropriately-sized food. If you have a small species of salamander or a juvenile, you should feed them smaller bugs. Their mouths are too small to eat large bugs. Go for small foods, like fruit flies, small grubs, small crickets, and worms cut into smaller pieces.
Only feed larger bugs to larger salamanders. Feed the salamander live foods. Most salamanders prefer to hunt for live food instead of eating dead food. This means you should feed your salamander live worms, bugs, and shrimp instead of dead ones. They can even be fed from trays. Avoid wild caught food. Some people will go outside and get bugs to feed their salamander. However, this can pose risks for your salamander. The bugs you catch may have diseases or have been exposed to chemicals.
Do not try to feed your salamander any human foods. I've had good success keeping Blue-spotted Salamanders in captivity for periods up to a month or two.
They're small, so you can keep them in a small aquarium. For spring-caught individuals, I set up an aquarium that is half water-half land, or that has a large island floating in shallow water. Early in spring the salamanders seem to prefer to be submerged in water most of the time.
They even choose to eat under the water if given the choice. I've noticed that their preferences change as the season progresses. Later on they spend more and more time on the land in the aquarium, and ultimately avoid going into the water, so long as their is a moist surface to lie on. A summer-caught salamander should be kept in a terrarium with moist moss or gravel. If you put soil in, it will burrow under, make a mess, and you'll never see it.
They like to hide under things, so a small cave or piece of bark in the aquarium is a good idea. And keep a secure lid on the aquarium.
Small salamanders walk up glass like you or I climb stairs! Worms are readily eaten by captive Blue-spotted's. I haven't been able to get them to eat any hard- bodied invertebrates or insects, but they do well on a worm a week. Store-bought crickets might be an option, smaller-sized ones would be best. Like I mentioned above some folks have been able to get them to eat crickets, but I never could. Don't feed salamanders, or any other critter, worms that have been kept in captivity for more than a few days.
There is evidence to suggest that worms are wonderful breeding grounds for toxic bacteria! Even though the worms may still appear healthy they may, in fact, have become a living lethal brew of toxins. I learned this the hard way feeding young snakes with captive worms.
Always feed critters with freshly-dug garden worms. If you're ever lucky enough to catch some salamander larvae, they can be raised quite easily in a small aquarium. Feeding them can be a bit tricky, as they require live food. The motion of their prey is a stimulus to attack. So you have to have a source of tiny water animals: daphnia, copepods, insect larvae, etc. If you have a pond, lake or other wetland nearby, you can take a fine-meshed dip net and swirl it around to collect some of these tiny critters.
Put them in a small jar and empty the contents into the aquarium. Another way of getting food items for the larvae is to take bunches of plants from a wetland and place them in the aquarium. These will usually be covered in tiny animals that the larvae will eat. Change the plants every couple of days to keep a constant supply of food available.
When you notice that the larvae are beginning to lose their gills and tail fins this can happen rapidly, once they reach at least 3 cm in length , provide them with some land: a floating piece of wood or a rock sticking out of the water. When they are finished their transformation, release them back where you got them.
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