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How do i care for my arboreal salamander and California newt?

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I h ave a arboreal salamander and a California newt in the same tank with a piece of driftwood and about a inch of water. I caught them both in the wild. Ive had them for about a week and i have been giving them tropical fish flakes. (I have tropical fish too). I was wondering if they will eat this and what the tank set up should be and how to care for these guys. I was also wondering if the California newt could harm me because i know that some people were killed when they swallow it. Thanks for the help

you should let them go. They should not be in the same tank together and are going to need 2 totally different setups, temps, humidity levels, etc. You are also feeding them the wrong thing. They need live food, but the ones outside usually have parasites or traces of fertilizer.
I have also heard about frogs releasing toxins from their skin in the wild, but store bought ones born into captivity do not produce these toxins. Im not sure if this is true with salamanders and newts, but its better safe than sorry.
A lot of wild animals dont do well in captivity and will sometimes starve to death or die from stress. I think it is best that you let both of them go, especially if they havent eaten anything yet. Go to the petstore and get a tiger salamandar if you really wanted one. I have heard that they can be pretty docile.
IF however, you dont choose to let them go ( bad choice in my opinion), I would go to repticzone.com and look at the caresheets they have on these animals. They will tell you the correct setups and stuff for them






How do you take care of a Pixie frog?

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I'm plannng on buying a Pixie Frog, but I want to learn as much about them as I can before I get one. What type of home do they need, what do they eat?
Any help is very appreciated, thanks.

You can keep them in a glass terrarium, with moist substrate such as soil, coconut bark, and moss. They should have an appropriate sized water bowl to soak in as well as a hiding place. The soil needs to be kept very wet, and temperatures should never drop below about 65 degrees. Feed large crickets that have been gut-loaded with calcium.

Care on red-eyed tree frogs?

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tips please from owners

Im not that much of a noob on keeping reptiles and amphibians but i've never had red-eyes before

thanks

http://www.wnyherp.org/care-sheets/amphibians/red-eye-tree-frog.php

2008: Year of the Frog Campaign

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Watch the High Definition version of this video at:

www.vimeo.com/merumontanus

Or watch here on Youtube and click on “watch in high quality” in the options below the video.

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Having been around for approximately 350 million years, amphibians have witnessed the dinosaurs come and go, and as a result of pollution, climate change, habitat destruction, over-exploitation for food and the pet trade, almost half of all amphibians are now themselves facing extinction.

Apart from natural and man-made environmental pressures, frogs, toads, newts, salamanders and caecilians are vanishing as a result of a fungus that is spreading rapidly among the world’s amphibian populations. It is believed that the chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) originated in Africa, and has already spread throughout all continents except Asia and the poles.

Currently, more than 90 species are affected by the fungus– this, combined with other environmental factors mentioned above, are responsible for what may be the most devastating mass extinction of a class of animals since the disappearance of the dinosaurs 64 million years ago.

In the last two decades, we have lost over 120 species of amphibians, and we could lose more than half of the existing 6000 species in only ten years if the trend continues. This could have disastrous effects on the planet’s equilibrium as amphibians are a critical component of our world’s biodiversity.

Apart from providing us with vital biomedicines currently being refined for antibiotics and analgesics, amphibians are indicators of environmental health, acting as “canaries in a coal mine”– alerting us of dangerous changes in our environment.

For more information regarding the current state of amphibian populations, or to help manage the current extinction crisis, visit Amphibian Ark at amphibianark.org.

Jump in. Because frogs matter.

For more on the issue: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3743682.stm

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