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I vote for Chinese Fire-Bellied Newt.
I bought one, oh, seven or eight years ago fom a shady petshop. I hadn't thought he'd last more than a couple weeks, a month or two at most. Then I found out that they can easily live to be twenty years old.
You need both land and water, but depending on the individual newt, they may like one more than the other. They really like frozen bloodworms, but they're perfectly happy with "salamander bites" which are soft fishmeal/shrimp pellets. They don't need a lot of attention, just a clean tank and regular day/night cycles. In fact, it's better if you don't handle them much, because the oil on our hands can bother them, and the stuff on their skin irritates ours.
And don't listen when people say they're boring. I mean, they're not a bundle of excitement, but they can certainly have personalities. For an amphibian. Anyway, mine regularly comes up to the glass when I'm sitting by the tank, and it used to "play" with my fish... if you count "play" and waiting for it to swim by and jumping on it.
I love my newt. <3
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