Hi Reid, this isn't probably what you meant by "tank" but this is how I keep my maculatum. Each tub contains an individual animal so I can easily monitor how much each one eats. There is a couple of inches of top soil with a section of plastic tubing sunk in. It's covered with bark chippings and some cork bark in case they want a change of scenery. They are very secretive and rarely emerge from the tube. They have learned that food gets delivered at the mouth of their tube so you can watch them feed occasionally. I find them the least demanding of all my caudates.
Thanks Mark and Dane. One more question though, How long did it take your maculatum take to learn that food gets delivered at the mouth of the tube? Can your spotted salamander be hand fed? If so, how long did it take.
My tiger salamanders ate from my fingers with 5 minutes of putting them in their tank... And after about a week they'd recognise me coming up to the tank and come out and 'beg' for food...
Hi Reid, the plastic tube is drainage pipe which you can get from most DIY stores. It comes in different sizes but the one I use is about 2 inches in diameter which is large enough for the sal to turn around but small enough to make it feel secure. You can cut it to size using a normal hand saw (be careful! and get help if you're not sure how to do it). I put some topsoil in the pipe so that the sal is not sitting on the plastic.
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