Hellbender give away

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jsut to let you in this section of forums know that the vivarium room at my college is giving away a hellbender salalmander. any opinions and tips would be greatly appreciated, since im trying to get this guy.
 
Well I will try to keep this short since it is a touchy subject for me.

Hellbenders are relatively easy to keep alive, but fairly difficult to keep thriving. I definitely would not encourage anyone to keep them unless they have 1000.00+US to invest on equipment with the goal to breed them (the only good reason to have them). Also PLEASE do not support the commercial collectors!

Jesse, your case is different since this is a "second hand" hellbender. You will need a tank of at least 75 gallons and a 125-200 gallon tank is more ideal. A couple canister filters and some airstones will work for filtration. Powerheads are good to move the water, but they also add heat to the water. A good chiller runs 600.00+US, but you might be able to get by with a 300.00 thermoelectric unit(they can only bring the temps down by 5-10 deg though). If the water is moving well, they can take temps around 75 in summer, but lower temps are obviously better.

We can get into feeding, etc... if you decide to take the animal.

hope this helps some.....
 
well erik after having been drowned with reasons why not to take it i have decided to jsut let it go to a zoo, thank you though, and by the way do you keep hellbenders, because if you do perhaps i can arrange to have it shipped to you throught e school.
 
Sounds like we have got a wise man among us!
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I think that is a sound decision both for the hellbender and you.
 
well im gonan go lick my wounds. who needs parents wehn he can jsut post here and get lectured and told to. (sigh)oh well.
 
Jesse, we all get lectured from time to time. Keeps you humble
 
yeah i know i have been at this site for a much longer time than i have actually been a member, way back in the prehistoric times when guests were allowed to post
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so im not all bent out of shape or anything
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