r/salamanders

This is a rare critter and even more interesting is its outside its known range.

I hope the picture is okay, but basically I am at my parents house and I looked at vase my mom has full of pothos clippings (she left the vase outside all summer apparently and just now brought it in) and this little guy is crawling around inside!

He appears to have all his legs grown and is maybe an inch long? What is he/she? What food is needed? Does he/she need to be released into the wild asap? Can it still breathe underwater? We live in western PA, will it get too cold? Any help is welcome!

I live in central Ohio and I saw a freaking blue spotted salamander outside my house?? I read they don’t live here and are endangered in Ohio

I am watching a friend’s dogs this week, but they also have a salamander. I haven’t been given any instructions on how to care for it. I don’t know a lot about salamanders, but this doesn’t seem like a good set up.

Any advice on what I should do?

Figured I’d make one last post before it starts getting too cold to ship but I still have a good amount of Chinese firebelly and blue tailed firebelly juveniles available if anyone in the US is interested! Check out my MorphMarket link in my bio if so. Also up for some trades for other newt species I don’t have.

I really enjoy trades, I traded some of my juvenile Chinese firebelly newts for some juvenile alpine newts.

I think these Spring Salamanders are subadults but I’m not certain. Still a cool find for my area though! (Ithaca NY)