Paramesotriton hongkongensis practising

[monique]

These are two of my 20 juvenile/subadults paramesotriton hongkongensis, practising to breed. They are in januari two years old so i don't expect any eggs. :happy: Love this warty critters!

http://http://s6.photobucket.com/al...rent=beb68525-ea26-4f19-b500-978fd6288d7a.mp4

 

[Otterwoman]

Can't see the pictures!

 

[Yahilles]

The link has too many http's. Here is proper one - a nice movie with monique's courting pair!
beb68525-ea26-4f19-b500-978fd6288d7a.mp4 video by momoswords - Photobucket

Thanks for uploading! Hongkongensis are my favourite Paramesotriton. I am raising this years' juveniles of this species, which i recieved from jef.
How did you manage to raise them to such big size in such short time? Everywhere i can read that Paramesotriton juveniles are growing very slowly.

 

[monique]

Janusz, thanks for fixing my post! And yes, the paramesotritons are growing very slowly. The biggest juveniles,/subadults are 13 cm and i think the smallest one is about 9 or 10 cm. I don't know if that is big? When they were small juveniles (the first year) they mostly ate tubifex and bloodworms on a wet tissue. But i fed them often twice a day, in the morning and in the evening.
The second year little crickets, fruitflies, waxworms, and earthworms and sometimes tubifex. And now mainly earthworms, once a day.

 

[monique]

one of the females

 

[louise]

Nice video.