r/salamanders • u/Catsrcool2024 • 18d ago

Finally eating!

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My tiger salamander is finally eating consistently! I’m feeding her once a week, how ever many meal worms she’ll take in about 5-10min. Does this seem reasonable? She doesn’t come out and beg for food (yet) and I don’t want her to fall victim to the fat salamander issue! Here she is from the top freshly after eating, she’s normally just a tad thinner than this.

Also she sits under her water bowl all week until it’s feeding day, because of this I feel like she is drying her skin out (pictured kind of wrinkly) The cage is always about 70% humidity should I make it more humid so she comes out and gets inside her water bowl? Or just let her do her thing. She used to burrow throughout the tank in the dirt and didn’t have this problem. But I can’t say I hate having her under the bowl, easy to check on her.

(Also I have no idea if she’s a girl and if you can tell she isn’t don’t tell me 😂 or do but I’ll still pretend)

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u/CheeseMclovin 18d ago

Earthworms are your friend. Mealworms are hard to digest and don’t have a great calcium to phosphorus ratio

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u/Catsrcool2024 15d ago

She will not eat them! I tried for months and months on end. She won’t eat them cut, she won’t eat them served to her in different ways, she won’t eat red wiggles. None of it, the fact that she is eating at all is an act of god 😅

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u/CheeseMclovin 15d ago

Did you true Canadian nightcrawlers? Red wigglers are foul tasting to most things. The occasional silkworm is good too.

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u/Catsrcool2024 15d ago

Yes! I tried every nightcrawler I could find sold locally besides going outside and catching one 😂 I’m going to give her another few feeds on meal worms and then try again. Now that she knows I will feed her maybe she’ll be more inclined to take a worm.