My new Tigers!!

[christian]

I'am happy to say that I'm the proud owner of 3 new beutifull Tigers.

I hope someone can tell me if they are mavortium or tigrinum.

Regards

Christian

(Message edited by apples on August 16, 2005)

 

[christian]

Here's an other picture.

 

[christian]

They always beg for food when I'm on my room.

(Message edited by apples on August 16, 2005)

 

[ester]

Nice pictures and great looking animals Chris!

 

[pin-pin]

I vote that the third photo be photo of the month!

(Message edited by apples on August 16, 2005)

 

[christian]

Thank you very much Esther and Apples!!

 

[rene]

very nice picture's chris and beautiful tigers

 

[christian]

I made some new pictures of my new tiger interior,my tigers love to dig in the dark substrate, an walk through the spaghnum..I also added some living moss for decoration.

(Message edited by apples on August 20, 2005)

 

[kevin]

nice setup.

 

[kevin]

Heey I found some larvae in the Pet Shop near by my house. They sell them as A. Mexicanum but they are going to morph and have a pointy noise. So I think it are A. mavortium and I`ve buy`t them. So I think I have really luck now.

 

[mark]

Ever thought of adding some plants?

 

[christian]

I was thinkin of it, but i didnt find the right one yet

 

[clinton]

Nice Tigers Christian

I have 5 myself, but 3 different strains. Yours are Eastern Tiger Salamanders (Ambystoma Tigrinum) just incase you were wondering. I have two of them myself. I find when they are young they like hand feeding alot LOL they will jump/lunge several inches high/forward.

 

[christian]

Hehe, yeah, they are very active eaters, and they can jump as well!, they like to bite in my fingers also !

Are you sure they are tigrinum? Everybody over here says they are mavortium,
I will take a clear picture of all five tigers I have , As far as I know I have 2 female's and one male, and two german juveniles. I think the juvies are 1 male and 1 female.

I have noticed that the male's are digging tunnels after dinner, and female's are very active, taking a bath, looking for food, and jumping to me all day long.

 

[clinton]

Check out this acticle, it has several different sub species pics.
http://www.livingunderworld.org/caudata/database/ambystomatidae/ambystoma/mavortium/

Here's another few pics of both Mavortium & Tigrinum.
http://www.axolotl.org/tiger_salamander.htm

http://www.livingunderworld.org/gallery/photos/caudata/ambystomatidae/ambystoma/mavortium/index.shtml

http://www.livingunderworld.org/gallery/photos/caudata/ambystomatidae/ambystoma/tigrinum/index.shtml

Aonther multi photo link:
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/narcam/idguide/atigrin.htm

http://herpcenter.ipfw.edu/index.htm?http://herpcenter.ipfw.edu/outreach/accounts/amphibians/salamanders/E_Tiger_Salamander/index.htm&2

Hope it helps you decided what you have.

It's also possible that you have a mixed breed. mavortium and eastern cross, who knows

 

[clinton]

The reason I think that they are Eastern is if you look, most every Eastern Tiger I have seen have spotting, even on the tails too. All of yours do. Mavortium seem to have bars or vertical stripes. It's pretty hard to tell them apart tho.

 

[christian]

I hope that one day I can tell for sure what they are, but for now they still look like this one :
http://www.livingunderworld.org/gallery/photos/caudata/ambystomatidae/ambystoma/mavortium/a_mavortium_mavortium.jpg


Thank you for the links to the webpages,

I dont know if the adults are mixed breed, because they are catched from the wild in the USA a couple of years ago... but its still possible.

Thanks for the information.


(please post further comments in my other topic)

 

[mark]

I would say for sure they are A mavortium mavortium...
although there is some overlap in their range, so maybe a chance of hybrids, but the pictures to me look like like typical mavortium. Also the yellow spotting can turn to bars over time. Likewise with tigrinum, I have seen mine change from originially spotted (there's a couple older pics of mine in this link, the last picture is a tigrinum):
http://www.caudata.org/cc/species/Ambystoma/A_tigrinum.shtml

...to having a more blotched pattern.
Less than a year later here is one of the same ones with much more blotching:
http://www.caudata.org/forum/messages/985/35343.html?1115598937

 

[daniel]

you have barred tiger salamanders, not eastern tigers, some times it is hard to tell them apart, but in this case they are definitely ambystoma mavortium. If you want to see some pics of my species to show the difference, let me know. email at tegu24@yahoo.com for pics.