ALL OF MY VIVARIUMS, PALUDARIUMS AND AQUARIUMS -- UPDATE!
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2025
- Here is an update on every one of my enclosures! Sorry it's been a while, but life happens. I have a couple new ideas cooking so hopefully will be able to put together some interesting new projects over the coming months!
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The second I heard a fellow father say "keeps me on my toes" I was dubbed, keep it up brother! This is a great hobby for the kids and it is bloody awesome to see amphibians in such excellent enclosures! As an Australian I don't have the luxury of having any amphibians accessible aside from frogs.
Thank you very much and appreciate it!
These tanks look incredible!!!
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Your set ups look so natural!
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Thank you for this video. Awesome stuff. The sirens are so cool and I love the care you put into the enclosures.
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Can we get a part 2 on the gummy bear challenge?
I really enjoyed this video. Keep posting. You have good content. Keep up the good work man! Your subscribers support you.
I really appreciate it !!
These are beautiful! I have my own bluespotted salamander, and I know that overgrown setups are better for these critters. ❤
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Life goals! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!!!
Great to see you posting a video again! Always a pleasure to see your vivariums and your collection of Caudata.
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your long tailed enclosure is definately your best.
Its hard to make such a good and natural enclosure while still being able to see your animals often, because thats how nature is. These animals would be in areas with tons of mossy rock crevices, rocks to hide under, holes to crawl in, and creeks to hide in. You could be herping with 100 in the area and only be able to find 2.
Agree. I like it a lot. Very elusive species
Great tour! Thanks for a full update
Thank you!
Bout timeee
Great to see the vivs again. The plant you really like with the round scalloped leaves and creeping habit is pennywort or hygrophila. Its common in the east. I have a micro viv with it. It really is a great plant for salamanders. I use mosses that grow on bricks in full sun on my front steps where do you collect? A good plant is flea bane it gets some height(6-8 inches leaves) with spreading roots the pop up new plants and flowers under viv conditions. Road side collection of seed or plants. It can take the dry and moist vivs not full wet. Tigers would like the dense roots to rip through. I found a micro pump you might like on cold and colder they are a PC cooling pump. 12v power supply not included. But they are tiny and work submerged or externally with silicone tubing.
Awesome, appreciate the info. I love that plant and typically see it growing on the margins of streams. I may take some clippings and try in similar setups. I usually collect my moss on my property in west Virginia. I have a stream that cuts across my property with shale walls and stuff grows like crazy
@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 Nice. I have found that getting my moss to establish well in open air requires daily drip watering on a peatmoss soil. I use acrylic wicks from a resevoir through a silicone tube. The peat moss is the key to dryer air/areas as it holds the water at a level high enough to keep the moss growing. At least it does when mostly flat. Completely vertical moss requires permanent moisture like you observed on your shale banks. I have thought a peltier plate on a shale wall would condense water enough to grow moss. Haha future projects. Good luck with your future rebuilds. I'm in coastal NC.
@@dshobe720that’s great. Temperate moss is difficult no matter what when you compare to tropical mosses, but I really like the temperate type. Thanks again for sharing the info!
I’m no expert but I think many lined salamanders or mud salamanders could do well in the sphagnum tank
I wish you had my favorite terrestrial salamanders. marbled salamanders and spotted salamanders, although you have my favorite amphibian as a whole the greater siren. I see dwarfs for sale every once in a while, and I always wanna get them, but it's always when I dont have room for them. Eventually, I wanna get into sirens and aquatic ceacilians though I suspect my love of polypterids and southamerican cichlids would take a hit if I did. The space avaliable for them would anyway.
I also have space constraints otherwise I would have many more species. Hopefully one day will have a lot more room!
@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 ahh space constraints the bane of any keeper or collector. it's almost as bad as moving and re-organizing. I feel that pain as it's the main reason I'm not already keeping sirens.
Glad to see your setups again, but man I'm so jealous of your Tiger's. I can't find any captive bred and I've just been thinking about getting wild caught :/
Occasionally on caudata.org someone will be successful breeding
i breed axolotl/tiger salamander hybrids
other than me & John Clare nobody captive breeds tigers in the USA
@@bengreene7563yep, I remember when John was successful a year or so ago.
@@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 i just paired up a tiger salamander from a new population with a female leucistic axolotl & the female instantly swam over & began sniffing/bumping the male tiger salamander's cloaca, i get a roughly 33% success rate mating axolotls x tigers
I grew up catching arboreal salamanders (Aneides lugubris). I'd give western sword fern (Polystichum munitum) a try in there and maybe redwood sorrel (Oxalis oregana). Order from a California native plant nursery.
Ok, appreciate it! Sounds interesting. I like using native plants that they would interact with in the wild
@@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 Sort of. I found them mostly in much, much drier habitats than those plant species are found in. But looking at your setup, I think those "near natives" might work well for you. Anyhow, it's just a thought. Keep making wonderful salamander vidsI I appreciate you sharing your experiences!
Do the greater sirens have teeth? I didn't know you could lose a finger to them lol
They do. I’ve heard they can pack a bite! I haven’t been bit luckily
Where do you find captive bred salamanders? I’ve been struggling to find any
I recommend Indoor Ecosystems from my experience
do you know if there is a type of salamander that is active that day?
Most salamanders are more active at night . I do regularly encounter eastern newts during daylight hours in ponds / bodies of water etc
thank you, I'm looking at a beginner salamander
What grasses are you using in greater siren tank
I believe they are a kind of Sagittaria. Got some years ago and they’ve grown a ton
@ are you going to ever get yellow spotted newts or marbled
@@izelldixon3519unsure at this point given space constraints
i just got egg laying! so this is a F1 axolotl/tiger hybrid x axolotl. i will get roughly 50% wildtypes & 50% gold albinos from this batch + 100% of offspring will have 2 copies of neoteny gene!
these will be 100% captive bred
care is identical to tiger salamanders
Those plants do not filter the water like you think they do
My tiger salamander is obese, he is an adult, maybe 7 inches. How should I diet him?
Feed less frequently and make earthworms the main staple of the diet. That’s what I feed bin mainly
is it legal to own a captive bred tiger salamander in pa? cause Google AI is making me mad
I’m not sure. I don’t live in PA. Local DNR with the state should know for sure. Sometimes even if they are CB, the state will still prohibit if the animal is endangered with the state.