Pachyhynobius shangchengensis

[TJ]

 

[triton]

E.T. phone home! E.T. phone home!...

 

[benjamin]

Are these one of the salamanders that's shown in the flashing salamander head thing up in the corner of the screen when your in the forums?

 

[jesper]

LOL@triton!

Btw, how come a french guy

is living in Finland

(sry for hijacking Tim...)

Yeah shangchengensis sure look weird, nice pic Tim.

 

[triton]

Like many french men i know... They have a finn girlfriend!!!

Finns women are maybe the biggest importer of foreigners men!!!

 

[jesper]

Girls....

 

[nate]

Ben: Yes, Pachyhynobius is one of the animated heads.

 

[patrick]

Here's a picture from one of mine ones..

Oops, sorry, the Date is 2001/04/28

best regards,

Patrick

 

[william]

do all pachynobius have "paddletails" and do they have any orange on the belly

 

[mark]

William -

Yes, all Pachyhynobius have a very compressed tail. The ventral side is not orange, but rather a cream color as typical with most Hynobiids.

 

[john]

The animal in the animation is actually one of Patrick's Pachyhynobius shangchengensis, which he very kindly showed me a few years ago.

 

[benjamin]

Is the head animation one an albino?

 

[patrick]

it hasn't red eyes, so it is not albino...

regards,

Patrick

 

[paris]

i have heard these are hard keepers-is this true? if so what is the secret from those of you who have had success keeping them?

 

[patrick]

Hi Paris,

keeping as such isn't so hard , this newt likes much flow in the tank, stones to hide etc.. and they like earthworms...

but the breeding conditions must be very hard , as I know, nobody really has bred this species successfully in captivity... unfortunately!

best regards,

Patrick

 

[javier]

Mama Mia!!! wonderful animal.

Xavier.

 

[henk]

Regarding breeding : even scientists don't even know how they set off their eggs : singly (like salamandridae thus.. probably not) or in eggsacs (like Hynobius and most probably). So if ever anyone breeds them that would be interesting. I have recently set over my lmarge group into a very large wooden tank with pond-plastic and lots and lots of stones in my unheated garden house.. hope it may work. Females got very thick each springtime but I didn't get any eggs so far...

 

[sergé]

What Henk says is very interesting. There are a lot of people keeping this species, but no one seems to be able to breed them, and most of these people are pretty experienced too (like Henk)!
So...can't somebody start to collect data on how all these people keep the animals and try to see if something can be learned from that? Start a small information group with a studbook or so?
At least share the ways of keeping so that not everybody needs to sort out of his own what works or what does'n't because the animals grow older every year...

 

[joeri]

Now there's an idea Sergé
Maybe all the ways tried make an interesting article for the magazine ?

I don't know a thing about this species, but reading the above I'm fascinated and curious at the same time

Joeri

 

[sergé]

So...is there anyone of you fanatic keepers who wants to start with this project: just some suggestions:
- ask on this site who has these animals and wants to coöperate
- than ask them all how they keep their animals (set-up, temperatures, feeding etc)
- ask for behavioural/morfological changes (aggressivity, breeding behaviour, periods when males get bigger heads)..
It is that I don't know anything about this species and don't keep them but one of you should start a small project to write an interesting article...there is nothing published yet, so be a pioneer!!!!
Your name will get eternal quality...