Throughout Indiana DIET Eat small arthropods such as spiders, mites, ticks, pill bugs, ants, beetles and caterpillars. EGGS Single female can produce 800-1,000 eggs, laid singly or in clusters of 2 or 3. Eggs are attached to vegetation and hatch in 2-3 days. First two weeks spent in leaf litter on bottom of the pond, later eating algae. Dorsal color, olive brown to dark green with metallic gold flecks, belly creamy and iridescent, tail musculature pale and uniformly pigmented or blotched, edges of tail fins blotched or mottled with purplish black.
Transformation occurs within eight weeks with maturity reached within one year.