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william
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i purchased two pairs of notophthalmus viridescens a few weeks ago to put in an outdoor vivarium with my ambystoma opacum. i've got two pieces of interesting behaviour to report. First of all. of the four animals three were the normal colouration, with the black blotches on their bodies, one however had no black spots at all. after a few weeks outside, i've discovered that the unspotted female has grown black spots all over it's body like the other three.
the second piece of interesting info, is that in my outdoor vivarium, instead of having one pool, i sunk two plastic boxes into the ground, each box was kept exactly the same, apart from that one box has a gravel substrate and the other has a soil substrate. i put a pair of notos in each box, after a few weeks all four notos were in the gravel based box. as a further experiment, i've put all four notos into the soil based box to see if they move.
i hope this is of interest to people!
the second piece of interesting info, is that in my outdoor vivarium, instead of having one pool, i sunk two plastic boxes into the ground, each box was kept exactly the same, apart from that one box has a gravel substrate and the other has a soil substrate. i put a pair of notos in each box, after a few weeks all four notos were in the gravel based box. as a further experiment, i've put all four notos into the soil based box to see if they move.
i hope this is of interest to people!