Detroit Zoo, Sept 10, 2005

[joan]

Eurycea rathbuni

Andrias japonicus

Necturus maculosus

Tylototriton shanjing

 

[william]

wow there are some great pictures there! especially the eurycea!

 

[joan]

He was pretty hard to shoot, being kept in a 'dark' setup. I had to crawl through the "kids only" cave to get that one. Justified it with being a kid at heart. That shanjing was shot at a weird angle too.

 

[joseph]

Yeah I agree with Will...that Eurycea sure is something! Looks almost silvery in the photo. What kind of setup did they have it in?

 

[joan]

They have it in a dark blue-light-ish cave setup, gravel on the bottom, knobby limestone(?) wall on the back, with lots of little ledges and such. To my understanding, they've had this individual for quite some time. They used to have two, I'm not sure what happened to the other. They are like... pink, being cave sals, but have a silvery sheen to them. They're very pretty and my picture doesn't do it justice

 

[pin-pin]

Hey Joan,

Wow, that is the "smiley-est" Andrias that I've ever seen.

Thanks for sharing.