new T shanjing morph leaving water

[rigsby]

i was lucky enough to catch this little fellow setting foot on dry land for the first time.

 

[DosJax 12XU]

Congats! Hopefully I will be as succesful as you have with breeding this species, I'm going to try to breed mine soon. What was the temp. of the cage when you put them through their dry period?

 

[rigsby]

they were kept at room temp.

 

[DosJax 12XU]

That's great! I'm going to try this as soon as I get back from vacation next month.

 

[rigsby]

good luck, we need more people breeding to keep them from being taken from the wild. Although mine were obviously wild caught ,they were in a mess with sores, i like to think i saved them from dying, just wish i could of afforded to buy them all.

 

[navaros]

Tell me about it, there's a store here with a T. kweichowensis crammed in a tank with a bunch of Pachytriton, and even worse, mudskippers..... Anyway, the Kweichow is 50 bucks, if I had it to spare I'd go get it today. The pachy's are pretty cool too, they look to be Pachytriton "A", but I'm not positive. As long as they are continuing to be exported, captive breeding will never take the spotlight with Retailers, at least the ones that want to stay in business. No matter how many you "save", they will unfortunately be replaced by another unlucky round of WCs. Anyway, congratulations! Now comes the fun part.... =P

 

[DosJax 12XU]

My first pair of shanjings are absolutely FLAWLESS, as far as health and appearance goes, I think that they were both captive bred, but I cant say. Thay both are a bright orange/yellow. But just recently, I bought a obviously wild cought female, she had minor sores on her head and a missing digit on her left hand, she is doing great now though. She has healed nicely. Hopefully I can get some offspring from them, I have friends that already want to purchase some off of me and my girlfriend.