Some Ambystomatid Sals

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I was doing some feeding and whatnot today, and thought I'd post some quick pics.

I'm the proud new momma to two tiger sals who eat VORACIOUSLY. These guys eat 2 earthworms each 3x a week.

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At the same time, I also received one small adult and one juvenile blue-spotted sal. These guys are happy eaters too. Note that the 'leaves' are the same as the ones in the tiger sal tank.

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I also have 3 jeffersons sals. These guys are so underrated as ambystomatids go. I think they're gorgeous (btw: I named them all Weezy).

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Very nice pics. My tiger eats like crazy, too - earthworms, slugs, red wrigglers - she just likes food. I really like the leaves in with your sals. I take it they are fake? I think they add a nice "forest floor" motif. And your jeffersons are pretty as well, I think they and marbled sals are my favorite looking ambystomids.
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I find it vaguely amusing at how often Jefferson's sals have more blue on them than blue-spotted sals. Maybe that's just the blues in my area...

The plants are definately fake; silk, not plastic. I bought 6 feet of 'fall motif' vines from the craft shop (a much better place to buy silk plants. pet shops are overpriced!), chopped them up, and divided them between tanks. My anaconda has some too.
 
I love ambistomids!!

I have noticed that blue spotteds colors are different in different areas, like in mid to northern counties of wisconsin(shawano county) the blues have more of a darker blue, and in the southeastern part of wisconsin they are more of a whitish blue
 
Sweet sals. No joke- those Jefferson's are fantastic, but my favorite are still marbled's.
 
The beer-pong (after all, isn't Michigan State University known for it's collective beer-pong skills?) receptacle cave is used in all of my tanks. They're cheap and easily replaced.
 
nice shots I agree the jeffs are nice, but my favourite have to be opacum, annulatum and cigulatum!
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