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[jimi reptile]

OK, my friend found a salamander and it was a blue spotted salamander! From what I have researched, they are kinda rare and It is a juvenile. It was running around the dead leaves, and they caught it. I have it in a ten gallon with some peat moss and Asian moss? with a hide of a piece of bark and a few plastic plant leaves. I have a spot in the tank that he can get to the water (it is not in a dish, there is a fourth inch of water on the whole bottom of the tank, but there is the only place that he can access it). He is sharing the aquarium with a wood frog and a pair of spring peepers. They don't come out of hiding much, though so would that be a problem housing them together?

just wanted to share that

 

[Untide]

I find these all the time. I have a window well since my room is the basement and they tend to fall into it and can't get out.

 

[froggz]

I would suggest releasing it where you found it. Your amphibian inexperience shows with you wanting to mix species such a tiny space. Your wood frog will eat the peepers, I guarantee it. Why not research the care of your amphibians and give them all proper and SEPARATE homes, after returning the salamander to the leaves.

 

[thestack510]

What does that have to do with salamanders? I don't get it at all.

 

[nrich]

troll

 

[ez2animate]

That was a bump

 

[geckofreak24]

i would let it go, small salamanders in my opinion are the hardest animals to care for, if it is tiny then it will be hard to feed, and ypu need to keep the cage very moist, and there is pretty much no insentive in keeping them since you will proably never see them since they always are hiding

 

[laughing dog]

i had some for in with an assortment of animals including two garters that should have eaten them, but when i re did the tank all of them had no tails, but had been breeding like everyhing else as the tank was covered under everything with them(i had a really naturalistic forest tank with no top, and a heat rock and clamp lamp. you should have earth, and a water dish to keep cleen, as most herps seem to prefer to poo and pee in water, wet moss standing in water with all of them in that small a tank, along with dead worms in water will poison them.

 

[got spots?]

I say release it. You just said they are rare. Wanna know why? People take them or take away habitat.

 

[Taquiq]

Let it go!

 

[shanerules]

blue spotteds aren't very rare. they are getting more and more common in the pet trade. i believe you can get them on the kingsnake classifieds for $24? they are a very neat species but i wouldnt reccomend any salamander other than a tiger or maybe an axolotl for a beginner at keeping caudata species.