mr cyclone
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I have recently supplied some people with eggs from my adults,I have two females and 1 male. Here are the pictures of their setups,the pictures are not very clear as theyre taken from a cheap digital camera and my photography skills are as bad as my spelling..
My Verrucosus Adults i got from a fellow member they were CB09 and were all females ,I traded one of them with a friend so i had 1 male.I kept these newts aquatic since i got them.My temperature range was 18C to 22C .I found at lower than 19 or 20C the adults would leave the water and spend most of the time on the rock at the water surface,when i fed them they would return ,eat ,then leave again.The male left the water indefinitely last spring and wouldnt eat,i took advice from a friend on here who told me to raise the temps to 22 or 24C as they are from places like Thailand etc,Skeptical i raised the temperatures gradually to 24C and all 3 newts became more active and eat more often.They are very ,very greedy eaters!!,especially the females they become really grumpy and bite anything coming near the food,i recently lost 2 juveniles that were kept in with the adults for around 2 months.The gravid females eat both juveniles despite their size!.
My trio started laying on the 19th of february this year after i experimented with the temperatures, i raised the temps to 26C and refreshed the water 4 times in the space of 7 days,at this point the 2 females looked like they would burst,they both laid around 150 eggs each on seperate nights,i lowered the temps to 24C and they continued to spawn at least once a week,i have now subsequently reduced the temperature back to 22 to stop them from breeding all the time.
I have around 15 well advanced larvae at the moment and theyre in a large tank with a heater at 26C ,driftwood artificial plants and pots/slates for hides, i had to experiment around with temps/ammonia/lack of oxygen etc before getting the method perfect.
At 26C the larvae develop quite fast and bite and snap at anything within reach,most of them are missing gills and parts of their tails,I raised them on daphnia to start with with cycled water from the adult's tank,and bottled water,then once they were bigger started them on live bloodworms and whiteworms,they have been eating me out of house and home since.they are now greedily eating 2 to 4 blocks of frozen bloodworms,live earthworms and whatever else they can fit in their mouthes,i had to put filters into the larvae setup to airate the water ,at high temperatures,certain aquatic plants were decaying and food was spoilling and also the oxygen was being used up at an alarming rate.I have tryed to show some of my pictures i will take some more decent photos of the morphs when/If they decide to morph.I'm verry happy with the smiley wee beasts! Cheers
My Verrucosus Adults i got from a fellow member they were CB09 and were all females ,I traded one of them with a friend so i had 1 male.I kept these newts aquatic since i got them.My temperature range was 18C to 22C .I found at lower than 19 or 20C the adults would leave the water and spend most of the time on the rock at the water surface,when i fed them they would return ,eat ,then leave again.The male left the water indefinitely last spring and wouldnt eat,i took advice from a friend on here who told me to raise the temps to 22 or 24C as they are from places like Thailand etc,Skeptical i raised the temperatures gradually to 24C and all 3 newts became more active and eat more often.They are very ,very greedy eaters!!,especially the females they become really grumpy and bite anything coming near the food,i recently lost 2 juveniles that were kept in with the adults for around 2 months.The gravid females eat both juveniles despite their size!.
My trio started laying on the 19th of february this year after i experimented with the temperatures, i raised the temps to 26C and refreshed the water 4 times in the space of 7 days,at this point the 2 females looked like they would burst,they both laid around 150 eggs each on seperate nights,i lowered the temps to 24C and they continued to spawn at least once a week,i have now subsequently reduced the temperature back to 22 to stop them from breeding all the time.
I have around 15 well advanced larvae at the moment and theyre in a large tank with a heater at 26C ,driftwood artificial plants and pots/slates for hides, i had to experiment around with temps/ammonia/lack of oxygen etc before getting the method perfect.
At 26C the larvae develop quite fast and bite and snap at anything within reach,most of them are missing gills and parts of their tails,I raised them on daphnia to start with with cycled water from the adult's tank,and bottled water,then once they were bigger started them on live bloodworms and whiteworms,they have been eating me out of house and home since.they are now greedily eating 2 to 4 blocks of frozen bloodworms,live earthworms and whatever else they can fit in their mouthes,i had to put filters into the larvae setup to airate the water ,at high temperatures,certain aquatic plants were decaying and food was spoilling and also the oxygen was being used up at an alarming rate.I have tryed to show some of my pictures i will take some more decent photos of the morphs when/If they decide to morph.I'm verry happy with the smiley wee beasts! Cheers
