Any tips for maintenance or anything i possibly did wrong?
Used leca for trainage layer and have about 4-6 inches of substrate
I have springtails and isopod cleanup crew and the soil is made up of
50% topsoil no fertilizer
30% coco coir
10% orchid bark
10% sphagnum moss
It is said that the colours of spotted salamanders serve as a warning that they are poisonous. However, they are primarily nocturnal animals, and at night their colours are barely visible to potential predators.
So what is the real purpose of this yellow colouring? Is it a remnant from a time when salamanders were more diurnal?
I'm attaching a photo of a salamander having a meal
Found this little guy on my walk this morning. I have never seen anything like it. Thought it was a little snake but then i noticed he was walking. Anyone know what it is?
Location: Bay area, California
What kind of salamander is it? Are those eggs behind its front leg?
Are there any Canadian salamander breeders/sellers at all? In Nova Scotia there are 4 species you can legally buy, but the issue is literally nobody has them. These species include Ambystoma tigrinum, Necturus maculosus, Cynops orientalis, and Taricho torosa. What's the point of these species being legal if nobody can get a hold of them? It's like they don't want us to have salamanders.
Any ideas? I'm not familiar with the region and my own research has ended in doubts
First pic is before & second pic is after. my TS doesnt burrow often and I assumed it might’ve been because there was not enough substrate so I added a couple more inches. used this time to move some stuff around & im really happy with the outcome!
I didn’t know there were people who eat them. Was very tempted to bring one home.
I acquired my eastern tiger salamander as a rescue in 2005, and he was fully grown, so I'm not sure exactly how old he is. His neighbor, Louise (A. jeffersonianum), turned 28+ this year. I've had her since high school; I'm 43 now. No photos because she's not into being perceived.
Found this little guy when we were tearing out a tree. My brother was going to keep him in a spare twenty gallon that I used to have for my leopard gecko but upon finding he was endangered he was released. Awesome experience! We live in the middle of a bunch of fields in NW Ohio so I didn't expect to see one of these around at all!
hi ya’ll!
i recently got a freshly morphed tiger salamander. the first time i hand fed him, i gave him a nightcrawler worm and he ate it. he then proceeded to not eat anything from the tweezers, including roaches, small-ish hornworms, and the same worm as before. he has eaten a couple of small crickets when i let him hunt, but he’s now not catching any of them. he also let a hornworm cuddle with him instead of him eating it, lol. so very much not interested. i’m getting a bit worried, as this is all i’ve seen him eat in a month.
does anyone have any advice. picture of him attached!
Bought these Salamander boots a while ago. I just noticed one of the yellow salamander inlays came off.
Now somebody will find a little rubber salamander somewhere.
Salamanders are cool. I saw a fire salamander once. Beautiful animals. but a rare sight.
Okey dokey.. so I’m scared. I have several salamanders and eggs suddenly appeared. I have two “western tiger salamanders” with some pieces of wood near by their shallow water pool, and today I woke up to what looks like hydrated chia seeds all over the wood. Even crazier-I also have an aquatic tank with what I believe to be a paedomorphic tiger salamander because it looks very much like an axolotl and has gills. Well surprise surprise, same thing. I woke up this morning and there are eggs suspended in the aquatic plants growing in its water. If they’re laying eggs does that mean they’re fertilized? Or did they just do it because it happens sometimes? What am I gonna do if they’re viable and I’m suddenly overrun with babies? Where can I take them? I’m kind of panicking and could really use some help. Thank you so much.
Ps please let me know if I need to immediately do something with the eggs (ie move them into or out of the water, move them to their own incubation enclosure, keep them moist, submerge them, etc.)
I love salamanders so much and want to do whatever is best for them. Thanks again
Brothers it's okay to like shiny vibrant salamanders, we are all sons of the same Primarch..
But in all seriousness Nuln was invented to replicate shadowing and darkening of crevices. I on the other hand like this lather my salamanders with it cause it pops my Warpstone green even as a layer paint.
I don't know why but I love my minis shiny.
If you do over douse your miniatures in this oil you can always rectify by using a ultra-mat varnish I use the company AK.
Hi! I just caught this salamander in my basement. Curious on what the lil guy is!