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#1 Offline Mercutia - Posted September 6 2014 - 12:45 PM

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So I went on a romantic anting walk with my boyfriend as we wandered around my local woodlot lifting the odd log to see if there were any queens around and low and behold, we found this lovely critter.

 

 

It's an Eastern Red Backed Salamander, ~ less than 10 cm from head to tail.

 

I've got her (I'm assuming its a her because of the lack of testes) in a small terrarium currently. I've looked up basic care and such but if anyone else has any rearing tips, they would be much appreciated!

 

Edit: We've named him/her Natsu after the Salamander wizard in the anime Fairy Tail.



#2 Offline dspdrew - Posted September 6 2014 - 1:06 PM

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Cool, I like salamanders and newts. This looks like a good care sheet (http://jabberwockrep...salamander-care). Looks like they make decent pets.



#3 Offline Mercutia - Posted September 6 2014 - 4:12 PM

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All these guides keep telling me to feed my salamander crickets, etc but she's so gosh darned small there is no way crickets are going to fit in her teeny tiny mouth. Any other suggestions?



#4 Offline dspdrew - Posted September 6 2014 - 4:14 PM

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Haha, you need tiny crickets. When they first catch they're as small as S. molesta ants.



#5 Offline Mercutia - Posted September 6 2014 - 4:43 PM

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Do they sell feeder crickets that small?



#6 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted September 6 2014 - 5:15 PM

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Nope, you can try fruitflies maybe if they sell them there?

#7 Offline Mads - Posted September 7 2014 - 7:22 AM

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Yes, they sell all sizes of feeder crickets. Although anything under 1/4" or two week size crickets generally have to be pre ordered from a store, as they generally don't stock that size. Flightless fruitflies would work as well.

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#8 Offline napaeozapus - Posted September 15 2014 - 7:41 AM

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At Highlands Biological Station they were (and perhaps still are) maintaining a large experimental population on flightless fruit flies.

#9 Offline Alza - Posted September 16 2014 - 6:11 AM

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