Thanks Uwe, you are right. For me, the meeting is the best meeting point to talk to friends with the same interest. And mostly I do not even talk about how they keep there newts, but how they are doing, what plans and idea's they have...
to Justin I can just say: in the case of Salamandra...most (sub)species can be obtained from CB, but some people don't seem to be able to raise them properly or don't have the patience to wait until they become adult.