oops hijacked thread!!!
Hi nancy
caudates are the tailed amphibians and anurans are the frogs and toads
Oscar,
i have a large compost heap at work where i am allowed to keep a large part of the collection and another compost heap at home in the garden. i mostly feed them earthworms and slugs. Crickets are rarely used as they are nowhere near as nutritional as live worms. But I always have some crickets for the frogs, so ocasionally a cricket may get thrown to a salamander.
I am very interested in the Triturus genus and work with wild populations too. I am a licensed amphibian worker as part of my countryside ranger job. So as its winter here most of my triturus and the Salamandra are in their winter rest stage.
i have about 80% of them aquatic. Its much easier to care for them in water and much easier to feed than when they are terrestrial. But, some of them like the juvenile marmoratus would easily drown if kept aquatically at this stage in their life so they are terrestrial just now, will encourage them to become aquatic next year.
The sals are all terrestrial except Pleurodeles waltl.
At least most of these live for 10 to 20 yrs unlike our cephy friends
They are not all in tanks, the ones in my house are but i find that those large opaque holding boxes which are plastic and sold in DIY shops are great. Very cheap, secure lids and light enough to see through them. Especially good for when the newts are hibernating etc
Cheers
Colin
Hi nancy
caudates are the tailed amphibians and anurans are the frogs and toads
Oscar,
i have a large compost heap at work where i am allowed to keep a large part of the collection and another compost heap at home in the garden. i mostly feed them earthworms and slugs. Crickets are rarely used as they are nowhere near as nutritional as live worms. But I always have some crickets for the frogs, so ocasionally a cricket may get thrown to a salamander.
I am very interested in the Triturus genus and work with wild populations too. I am a licensed amphibian worker as part of my countryside ranger job. So as its winter here most of my triturus and the Salamandra are in their winter rest stage.
i have about 80% of them aquatic. Its much easier to care for them in water and much easier to feed than when they are terrestrial. But, some of them like the juvenile marmoratus would easily drown if kept aquatically at this stage in their life so they are terrestrial just now, will encourage them to become aquatic next year.
The sals are all terrestrial except Pleurodeles waltl.
At least most of these live for 10 to 20 yrs unlike our cephy friends
They are not all in tanks, the ones in my house are but i find that those large opaque holding boxes which are plastic and sold in DIY shops are great. Very cheap, secure lids and light enough to see through them. Especially good for when the newts are hibernating etc
Cheers
Colin