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4 x fire belly (Cynops) newts for sale

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I have four fire bellied (Cynops) newts for sale.

I'm not sure if they're Japanese or Chinese species. The one female seems to be swollen with eggs at the moment. The two males are very healthy and probably around three years old. I also have one that appears to be a recent morph. The female got her front leg bitten off by a frog in the tank a few weeks ago. It appears to be growing back.

I would definitely prefer to sell them all as a group. I'm hoping to get $35 each for them.

I prefer to sell these to someone in California, although I understand it may be legal to ship from state to state fairly soon.
 

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I live in Wisconsin and would buy them if you would ship

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I would do $25 each plus shipping only if you buy all 4. I don't see anyone selling these any more, and $10 is cheaper than they were before the ban....so $10 makes no sense. It seems most newts I've seen sold on this site in the last year, and on Caudata (I check often), are selling for $30-$70 each....and we won't be able to import more for a long time. Give me evidence to the contrary and I'd reconsider.
 
These newts are the lowest priced newts and once were less than $10,even as low as $5each.The newts you see priced $30 to $70 are the European newts.I don't see these newts going for more than $15 each but that's just my opinion.Alot of the newts you see priced on caudate.org are still over priced.These look like the Chinese species.
 
A year and a half ago it was not yet Illegal to import Chinese newts. Now it is illegal. Supply and demand. I will gladly make my price more competitive if I see cheap firebellies back on the market. These days they're as rare as a European newt, and that's unlikely to change.
 
Very few people are breeding Hypselotriton orientalis here in the states. They usually require a tricky terrestrial land phase that makes it time-consuming to grow them out to be aquatic again and to the size most people want to see when they buy a newt. That is a perfectly reasonably price for what the market is.

Those 5.99 firebellies you saw were wild-caught, imported animals that mostly likely were sick before they even got into the USA; let alone that pet store; and were most likely kept too hot, with incompatible animals; and usually slowly starved on people when they got them home because the stress they were put under was too great for them to recover.

I hope you find a proper home for these who will breed more of them. Other then Cynops cyranus; most Asian newts are going to be more rare as time goes on.
 
Are these captive bred?The seller doesn't say and keeps them with frogs!Newts should never be kept with frogs.The seller also says one of the females legs got bitten off by a frog in the same tank.This is not the way newts should be kept!It is legal to ship from state to state in 49 states now.Please do some research before keeping Amphibians next time as you didn't even know what kind of newts you have and to keep newts with newts of the same kind.
 
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@amphibi You are correct. Newts should not be kept with other species. The female and the male at the bottom of the photo frame were given to me recently by one of my customers who knew I keep newts. The female sustained her injury before I got her. All 4 animals were purchased at pet stores....so chances are fairly high they were not captive bred. I purchased the little morph at a pet store in Fresno 2 months ago. It was their only newt in stock, and they said they couldn't find suppliers for any more. I am selling them because I've gone a little nuts since the import ban and purchased every newt I could get. It has led to me having too many tanks going...so I'm trying to downsize a little.
 
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Thanks for all the inquiries. These newts sold to an individual who lived within driving distance of me. They sold for the original asking price ($35ea)and there were several offers. I decided to sell locally to avoid the health perils of shipping. Due to supply and demand, it appears that the once over-imported firebelly is now a rare newt that will sell at the price of European newts.
 
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