[For Sale] Fire Belly Newt Efts(C. Orientalis)

I have quite a few Cynops Orientalis (Chinese Fire Belly Newts) efts for sale. These are a species are are very difficult to find thanks to the ban that only just got lifted last year. They are captive bred individuals from my breeding group.







They are $30 each plus shipping. Shipping price vary due to location of where they are being shipped, if you want a quote just shoot me a message with your zip code. All boxes are insulated and shipping is done Monday through Thursday if weather permits. All shipments are done via UPS with express next day options only, I will not ship any other way but express to ensure they arrive there in the fastest manner.

-These are TERRESTRIAL efts, they are not aquatic adults and will need to be in a terrarium set up for at least a year before they may begin to show signs of becoming aquatic.
-They also need to be fed live foods, they current are fed a diet of dusted fruit flies but can eventually be trained to eat frozen food from tweezers
-Roughly around an inch in size

Are you interested in any trades at this time?

Unfortunately not looking for trades. I do not have the space to keep anymore species of newts/salamanders at this time.

40 is kind of crazy.... these are 15$ at best.....

Originally Posted by zaj56

40 is kind of crazy.... these are 15$ at best.....

I am curious as to where one would find captive bred newts- of any species- for $15.

Originally Posted by zaj56

40 is kind of crazy.... these are 15$ at best.....

Then don’t buy them?

I mean earlier this year in February I bought Japanese fire belly newts for $10 each and then back in November I spent $25 each.

Originally Posted by zaj56

40 is kind of crazy.... these are 15$ at best.....

You are probably think back to when it was around the 2010 to 2015 era where these species was massively still imported as wild caught where you could buy these at any pet shop for anywhere from $6 to $15. I got my adults around 2012 when they were everywhere and readily available. That is until the importation ban happened in 2017 where this species in particular basically vanished off the maps in the newt keeping world. Yes some species can still be found but I know that captive bred ones are definitely going for more that $15 cause it just not possible to raise CB newts with selling them at the price of the wild caught imports.

Captive breeding this species is by far not easy, they are not like other captive bred species that grow fast and are hardy. These guys require a lot of time, labor as well as requiring live foods in order to grow as larvae and then even once they are like these efts I have that they still need live foods and a terrestrial set up. It was a lot of work on my end this year to have managed to raise this many and my price reflect on the work, time and cost that went into raising these guys.

Not implying disrespect but i have a friend i actually met off here that breeds newts and yes - they go for around 15 cb. Just have to look and be patient. Its not very difficult to raise these if You have the time. I understand where you are coming from my opinion just differs. I think 40$ is unreasonable. Ill refrain from further comments. Have a nice day.

Pushing this back to the top, I still have around 50+ of these guys left, price is the same. I do offer discounts on quantity orders for those looking to get a large amount of them.