T. Karelinii photos

[Neotenic_Jaymes]

I'm glad to say that I finally can show other members my animals. Here are acouple decent shots of my T. Karelinii. Enjoy!

 

[LeV]

Nice Jaymes ! :happy:

T.karelinii photos aren't so present on the web and especially those of crested males.
Yours are showing a particular dorsal orange/brown stripe or that's my eyes that are not enough awake this morning (I'm living in France) ?

 

[stavroske]

Hi Jaymes,

Nice photo's! Do you know the exact location of your T. karelinii? I mean were they come from?

Cheers,

Steven

 

[Neotenic_Jaymes]

These are CB newts so I don't know where the origin of these newts. I know that this brand of Triturus Karelinii is the usual brand you run across in the States. CaudataCulture.org has nice care sheets that might give you a locality on natural habitat. Or try livingunderworld.org, that site is really informative.

 

[fishkeeper]

Very neat! The karelinii we have in the US seem to show a crest more in line with marmoratus than others of the cristatus complex. It tends to be rather smooth rather than jagged.

It is thought they were brought in from Ukraine.

 

[Jennewt]

Very nice, James! They are beautiful. I used to breed karelinii, so yours might be descendants of the ones I once had.

 

[Neotenic_Jaymes]

Most likely they are distant relatives from yours Jen. One of my females are laying eggs now, I'm very excited. Its amazing how colorful these newts are, even though these newts are considered the less attractive species with the lowest crests. I value my T. Karelinii as much as I value my T. Cristatus.

 

[Neotenic_Jaymes]

Here are some more photos. These photos are more recent and better quality. Let me know what you guys think. The male is still crested and dancing around all the time tail fanning. The young female is laying eggs but they're all duds. Maybe after this winter they'll produce fertile eggs for me to share with other Caudata members!!!

 

[xMIDNIGHTx]

Beautiful Karelinii! The male has quite a crest, the females shouldn't be able to resist! Good luck, I hope that fertile eggs are soon to come.

Mitch

 

[Neotenic_Jaymes]

Hopefully this spring or late winter they'll lay fertile eggs. Right now I'm keeping them at 65-70 degrees. They eat alot and at this temperature they might grow faster. Keep all you followers updated!

 

[eldaldo]

Hey you stole my T. karelinii! wait, no they're still here. They just look exactly the same, haha! Beautiful creatures though. Very probably related to mine to some extent.

Good luck with breeding them. Mine bred without any encouragement than being really well fed and having the average temperatures decrease a little for a couple months (aka. keeping them in the cool basement for a hot summer in a house without AC).

 

[uwe]

Mine bred just two to three month ago.

larvae are quite big already and are changing there color pattern. I have to take pictures in the next days.

Uwe

 

[uwe]

Finally I made some pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11304781@N02/3845127718/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11304781@N02/3844334985/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11304781@N02/3844339563/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11304781@N02/3845133270/

Hope this is ok with forum rules.

Uwe

 

[Kerry1968]

Beautiful markings on the spotty larva. Thank you for sharing.

 

[Blaze]

Wonderful pictures!

 

[AaronK]

Great Job to both of you!

 

[Neotenic_Jaymes]

My T. karelinii bred this year. Very much success as far as egg laying. Raising larvae was harder than I thought I was swamped with over 200 T. karelinii larvae. I had about 1000 larvae this year from about 5 different species. To keep things short I didn't manage well because of the lack of time. Here's a picture of a exceptional male with eggs in the back round.

 

[uwe]

Bringing up the larvae is just depended on the amount of food, space and time you have. They are very agressive to each other and you may loose many larvae just by cannibalism. As they get quite huge and can feed on big food a large larvae can eat up a whole "container".
Even enough food can not prevent cannibalism as during feeding heavy fighting is to be seen.

Other larvae are quite less aggressive.

Uwe

 

[Neotenic_Jaymes]

Uwe I know what you mean. Triturus larvae are hardy and cannibalistic. I had enough food to go around just didn't have enough time. I was very upset at the time when I got swamped with larvae. I lost so many so fast. I really learned a lesson and I'm not so upset anymore. After this past breeding season I felt like I had too many species or too many species breeding at one time. So I slowly started to make my collection smaller by getting rid of just a couple species or individuals. So that next breeding season I can handle the numbers.

I now have a personal assistant and everything is much easier. My collection gets more attention and more supervision. My assistant helps out with feedings and cleanings. I no longer have to downsize or let go of any animals. Now I think next breeding season will be handled a lot better. Since I don't have anymore decent pictures of any T. karelinii I'll put up something different.

Here's a picture of me and my assistant at dinner.

 

[Mariettile]

They are fantastic!