Soooo does anyone have any salamanders???

[Kris-wIth-a-K]

I picked this little girl up from Tennessee when I went camping up there for a week. It was pouring rain and I was sitting down under a tarp and she came crawling up my leg....

I named her Gary and am building her a freakin sweet tank this weekend. It's not really focused on her but you can still see what she looks like..

Pseudotriton ruber

 

[Goomba]

Pretty! If I were to do the salamander/newt spiel again I'd only do a neotenic tiger or a axolotl, or a pair of crocodile newts. Maybe a regular tiger, but idk.

Thanks for sharing the pics dude.

 

[flamesbane]

You do know that removing native wildlife from TN is illegal right?

Anyway, I wish there were more salamanders in the hobby...I do love the little buggers...

 

[UrbanJungles]

Keep that ruber really cool, they die when temps go above mid 70's...

 

[zonbonzovi]

Slick Sally & setch

Gary's pretty. Here's a few of my sallies: Bubba(Ambystoma mavortium diaboli), El Jefe(Amybystoma mexicanum); he shares a 55 g. tank with Jem & Special Ed & Tina1(Ensatina eschscholtzii); she shares a 10 g. with Tina 2 & 3. I use a false bottom for the Tinas kept drippingly moist & add ice cubes to the water dish on hot days.

 

[kupo969]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't salamanders also carry Chytrid fungus? If so I'd be careful if you have other amphibs.

 

[bigdog999]

no salamanders, but I do have newts

 

[zonbonzovi]

Unfortunately & according to this: http://www.amphibianark.org/chytrid.htm, testing seems to be confined to zoos & research institutes, except for a Swiss Co. that claims to offer a commercially available test. However, they decline to list a price, which I assume makes is financially unfeasible for the casual keeper. All I can do is keep each species out of direct contact with one another & give my paws a healthy scrub in between each tank's maintainence.

 

[pavel]

A she named 'Gary'? Ooookay. She is a pretty lil thing.

 

[Exo]

I have a blue spotted salamander I found in the basment.
It was skinny and starved when I found it, but not any more.
There is another one that lives in my back yard under a tarp.

 

[kupo969]

Unfortunately & according to this: http://www.amphibianark.org/chytrid.htm, testing seems to be confined to zoos & research institutes, except for a Swiss Co. that claims to offer a commercially available test. However, they decline to list a price, which I assume makes is financially unfeasible for the casual keeper. All I can do is keep each species out of direct contact with one another & give my paws a healthy scrub in between each tank's maintainence.

This is true but testing is not necessary. You can either quarantine and treat the animal for CF (chytrid fungus) when acquired or you can wait until it shows symptoms of it and treat then (which might be too late). If you wait you increase the chance of CF spreading to your other amphibians.

 

[Kris-wIth-a-K]

I knew it was illegal but I figured why not come back with a cool new pet. A ranger actually asked me what was in the container and I said it was the stuff moss that was growing on the trees. Technically it was but Gary was under it all but I didn't tell you that.

As for now I keep her in a KK with water and a cork bark hide to crawl on and the moss that I kept as well so she can hide it. When it gets warm I throw and Ice cube in there with her to lower the temps but when I upgrade the tank soon it will be a little harder to keep it cool.

Here is the gist of the layout.

It will be a 10g tank. Half of which will be land and the other water. I will put a 2.5-3" piece of plexi in the middle of the tank and seal it off so not much water can get though to the peat moss. I will leave a little but so it will leak through and keep everything moist and wet. The tank will be covered in pathos and the water part will have those stream rocks lying on the bottom. I'll have a few more so she can get in and out.

Aren't they "aquatic" during the winter anyways??

Kris.

 

[Goomba]

Ambystoma are asymptomatic carriers of chydridomytosis.

 

[blazetown]

I picked this little girl up from Tennessee when I went camping up there for a week. It was pouring rain and I was sitting down under a tarp and she came crawling up my leg....

I named her Gary and am building her a freakin sweet tank this weekend. It's not really focused on her but you can still see what she looks like..

Pseudotriton ruber

Thats weird. The salamander I keep showed up on the doorstep in a spring storm and I also named it Gary lol. Its a spotted salamander though.

 

[flamesbane]

I knew it was illegal but I figured why not come back with a cool new pet. A ranger actually asked me what was in the container and I said it was the stuff moss that was growing on the trees. Technically it was but Gary was under it all but I didn't tell you that.

As for now I keep her in a KK with water and a cork bark hide to crawl on and the moss that I kept as well so she can hide it. When it gets warm I throw and Ice cube in there with her to lower the temps but when I upgrade the tank soon it will be a little harder to keep it cool.

Here is the gist of the layout.

It will be a 10g tank. Half of which will be land and the other water. I will put a 2.5-3" piece of plexi in the middle of the tank and seal it off so not much water can get though to the peat moss. I will leave a little but so it will leak through and keep everything moist and wet. The tank will be covered in pathos and the water part will have those stream rocks lying on the bottom. I'll have a few more so she can get in and out.

Aren't they "aquatic" during the winter anyways??

Kris.

You should be lucky he didn't take the moss, , because in some of our parks (the Cumberland trail notably) you aren't allowed to leave anything or take anything, period (they even make you take your "waste" out ).

 

[Kris-wIth-a-K]

Gary is just an awesome name for salamanders I guess.

The moss was everywhere, and even if she had asked me why I was taking it I would have said something along the lines of "because I am a student at the University of Tennessee doing a scientific study on the growth of moss," or some b/s like that. I had a plausible story lol..