Fire Salamanders & Fire-Bellied Toads Feeding

Feeding of the Salamanders and Toads

Feeding of my Fire Salamanders and my Fire-Bellied Toads. I feed worms, slugs, bugs and woodlouses to them, that I collect in the garden or the fields. When I can't find anything in the nature, I give them mealworms (which I breed myself), or crickets(bought).




General Information on Fire Salamanders:

"The fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) is possibly the best-known salamander species in Europe. It is black with yellow spots or stripes to a varying degree; some specimens can be nearly completely black while on others the yellow is dominant. Shades of red and orange may sometimes appear, either replacing or mixing with the yellow according to subspecies. Fire salamanders can have a very long lifespan; one specimen lived for more than 50 years in Museum Koenig, a German natural history museum.
Fire salamanders live in central European forests and are more common in hilly areas. They prefer deciduous forests, since they like to hide in fallen leaves and around mossy tree trunks. They need small brooks or ponds with clean water in their habitat for the development of the larvae. Whether on land or in water, fire salamanders are inconspicuous. They spend much of their time hidden beneath stones, wood or other objects. They are active in the evening and the night, but on rainy days they are active in daytime as well."

Fire salamander. (2014, October 11). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:15, October 17, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fire_salamander&oldid=629214070



General Information on Fire-Bellied Toads:

"The Oriental fire-bellied toad (Bombina orientalis) is a small (4 cm, 2") semiaquatic frog species found in Korea, northeastern China, and adjacent parts of Russia. An introduced population exists near Beijing. They are commonly kept as pets in land and water vivaria. B. orientalis is also known as the 'tuti toad'.
It may properly be referred to as a frog, despite its common name, because of the tubercles on its back.
Oriental fire-bellied toads, species of Bombina, are typically a bright green with black mottling on their dorsal regions, but their complexion may also darken to brown and even black depending on their background scenery. Like other Bombina species, B. orientalis has a bright yellow to red (generally bright reddish-orange) ventral region mottled with dark brown to black. The skin on its dorsal side is covered in small tubercles, and although it is typically referred to as a toad, the fire-bellied toad is not a true toad - family Bufonidae."


Oriental fire-bellied toad. (2014, September 3). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:17, October 17, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oriental_fire-bellied_toad&oldid=624028260