TINY salamander in window well......again

[Bryman]

Well a few years ago we found a tiger salamander in our window well, he was decent size so we took him in, and he has been living with us for about 3 years now.........he is currently enjoying his very own 32 gallon bow-front tank.

as you may or may not know colorado has been basically under water for almost a week. anyway last night our cats were in the window going crazy...... i look in the window area (a completly underground basement window well) and there is a tiny little roughly 2 1/2" tiger salamander just like my other one. what the heck!! anyway its a purely rocked area, no water source at all, so i was wondering im not sure i want to keep him, but if we do what does a little guy like this eat? our other salamander (named Wellington) is on large crickets, worms from time to time and meal worms here and there. all of those are pretty big to feed this tiny little guy......

and if we dont want to keep him where do i take him to ensure he is safe? the only water supplies within 3 miles of my house are farmers canals which are full or emply depending on the day. how do you suppose he got here? and where can i place him to make sure he will be ok? we have open space behind our house with corn fields behind that if that helps........


my wife wants to keep him, im not sure. he is damn cute!! but im also not sure i should put him in with wellington, because he could easilly swallow this little guy.

help me out, what do i do?

 

[Jan]

You are right not to place the small salamander with the larger one. Not only from the standpoint that it might become a meal but also that it may carry pathogens, etc that would be harmful to your tiger.

As for food, small size-appropriate prey is needed. Pin head crickets, small pieces of worm, etc....something smaller than the salamanders head.

Post a picture and maybe he can be identified. 2.5" is awfully small for a tiger sal.

 

[Bryman]

ok so i just got a good look at him, we put him in a new cricket keeper i just recently bought and have yet to use.....he is actually about 3 3/4" long. black and green...

here are the best pics i can so far get, he is busy burrowing in the substrate....

 

[Willlis]

That is another tiger salamander newly metamorphed it looks like.

 

[Asevernnnn]

Substrate looks a little too moist though, from my perspective. And I think youre supposed to pinch off the heads of mealies before feeding them to amphibs, idk if you do that or not though haha

 

[Bryman]

i actually just gave him a misting as i took that pic to get him out of his dirt.....

 

[Asevernnnn]

idk it looks like mud all the way through, but i may be seeing things, i was like frozen this morning from marching practice so im not very focused right now smh