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Salamandridae

Sword-tail newt

Cynops ensicaudaนิวต์ท้องแดงโอกินาวาyellow-bellied / Okinawa newt

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Temperature20–26 °C
Enclosure60×40
Diet7 days

The numbers

Temperature

152025303540 °C
20–26°Ambient

One ambient band, 20–26°C. This sheet states no warm side, no cool side and no night figure, so none are shown. Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet stateswater 20-26 °C; tolerates cooler winter dips and brief peaks to 30 °C; no basking zone

Identity

Family / Order
Salamandridae / Urodela

Enclosure and conditions

Enclosure

60 cm40 cm
50100150200 cm
60 × 40 cmWidth × depth
24dm² of floor
Substrate: not in our dataWater: not in our dataWarm side: not in our dataHides: not in our dataUVB: not in our data

Drawn from the stated numbers. Seen from above: the sheet gives a footprint and no height.

Why

The rectangle carries the exact width-to-height ratio of the figures above it, and the ruler under it places that width on the 0–250 cm scale every sheet here shares, so two species still compare at a glance. Nothing is added that the sheet does not name: a lamp drawn on a sheet that never mentions one would be invented equipment. What the sheet leaves out is listed rather than left blank, because an empty tank reads as « none needed ».

The sheet statesAquatic tank, base around 60 x 40 cm for a pair or trio, densely planted with rocks, driftwood and plants for cover. Very fine sand substrate (avoid gravel, impaction risk). Low-flow or no filtration to avoid current. A small emergent land area is required. Larvae reared in 5 L containers.

What your climate adds

This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.

Diet

Feeding rhythm

every 7 dAs the sheet states
4Meals in 28 days

Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window.

Why

The windows widen as they go because the interval is a range: four meals after a 10–14 day cycle land anywhere between day 40 and day 56.

The sheet statesEarthworms, brine shrimp and thawed chironomid (bloodworm) larvae. Fed about once weekly in winter and twice weekly in summer.

What it needs

A thermometerbecause tempwater 20-26 °C; tolerates cooler winter dips and brief peaks to 30 °C; no basking zone
Not stated: The size of the enclosurethis sheet describes the enclosure without a figure: « Aquatic tank, base around 60 x 40 cm for a pair or trio, densely planted with ro »

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.

Sources

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What this sheet states

62%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 4 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: humidity instrument and audit, day/night engine and awake count on the globe, the diet section. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.