My friend's tiger sal terrarium and inhabitants

[Yahilles]

My buddy, who doesn't know English asked me to post pictures of his tank and tigers on this forum, so here are the photos:

And "winter" version:

And inhabitants (sadly, no certain info about what species or subspecies they might be - every tiger here in Poland is sold under the name of Ambystoma tigrinum)

 

[Yahilles]

What on earth is going on with these links?

 

[Mark]

The forum software has disabled them because they link to a site that shows adverts to people viewing images.

You can upload them to your profile gallery and use the IMG tags there or alternatively upload them as image attachments.

 

[Yahilles]

Ok, here:

 

[ed_moyer]

Look like diaboli to me!!!

 

[eljorgo]

Blotched?

 

[KennyDB]

Look like diaboli to me!!!

Yeah, that was my first thought to. Looking good.

 

[RPM]

I would go with Blotched. Ambystoma mavortium melanostictum. They look healthy.

 

[FrogEyes]

They're blotched, A.m.melanostictum.

 

[MartinS]

years back I had a group with the same marks, I go for A. M. Melanostictum.

 

[eljorgo]

Yup. They clearly looked like blotched (melanostictum) at first glance to me.

They are surely well treated.

p.s. Tell him to take Lichens out from the terrarium they will not make it at all. As most of all the plants in there.
cheers,

 

[FrogEyes]

While I keep A.m.mavortium, A.m.melanostictum, and A.tigrinum, I actually catch identical animals [melanostictum] to these regularly. Some of them can be quite muddy colored with finer markings. Animals further north can be quite yellow. I have seen juveniles further east which were yellow (one was orange), though the adults were light olive. Further west and south they are sometimes lime green. I've often contemplated sapling adults from throughout their range, to determine how much variation there is in color and pattern, and whether those colors and patterns correlate with habitat and genetics. A large part of the range of the blotched tiger salamander has only been occupied for less than 10000 years. That rapid range expansion should mean that they haven't diverged into distinct forms, but they will be evolving quickly [evolution is dependant on how many babies are produced, not how many years have passed]. Blotched tigers may also NOT be distinct from barred, and are simply the northern end of color variation in barred tigers.

Gray tigers are gray or yellowish, typically with black spots and blotches instead of a black network