Tylototriton verrucosus

[Bellabelloo]

You are right, and it certainly had toes at one point. I had it in a tank with one of its siblings a while ago and suspect it lost them then. The feet are slowly regrowing and I can just about see toes now, but its taken a long time.

 

[Bellabelloo]

I think this is now approx. a year old. It is measuring just over 3'' and little has changed since I last posted. I tried to identify which sex this is, but couldn't see anything :/

 

[Yahilles]

The limbs look like they're too small for the animal.

 

[Chinadog]

Maybe it can't regrow the missing toes/legs like a normal newt, I wonder if it's a side effect of the neoteny ?

 

[Bellabelloo]

I am not sure what is going on with the feet and legs. Out of all the other juveniles I have raised I have never had one loose all its feet like this one has. It has very tiny toes on some feet, but they do not seem to be growing any bigger.

 

[Bellabelloo]

The toes are regrowing Also added a photo of the golden tylo with a six month old sibling. I don't think the gold one will grow much more now.

 

[Dragonfire]

Haha I've never seen a neotenic tylotriton of any sort before i wonder if being golden caused this. Also I'm the legs are small because its neotenic my axolotl has little legs and they are neotenic

 

[Bellabelloo]

A vision of elegance.....

 

[Bellabelloo]

The Golden tylo with one of its normal coloured, younger siblings

 

[frogman]

He is looking good

 

[Bellabelloo]

I decided that it was time to clean the glass on my adults tank. Now I can see them clearly enough to take a few photo's with my new camera

 

[frogman]

What type camera? Lens?

 

[Bellabelloo]

Just a Fuji Finepix S4800 in rather a dazzling white colour

 

[southern softie]

Time for a little update.
Since reading Mr Cyclones comment I have put them in a more aquatic set up. I did have a heater in with them, but when it started making scary sounds I removed it. The water temperature is approx. 15 degrees at the moment. They enjoy eating earthworms and the largest is now close to 3 inches in length.

Hi Julia,
Hope your well
Been a while
A very interesting read.... Stunning...
Lee...

 

[Bellabelloo]

I decided it was time to see how many juveniles were left, in the process of fishing them out I realised their tank needed a good clean. I was feeling quite pleased afterwards and decided to take some photo's of the golden one...When I came to view them I realised I had forgotten to do the glass

 

[Bellabelloo]

Found I had an easy to use zoom function on my mobile ( just wasn't easy to find for me )

 

[jAfFa CaKe]

Looking nice Julia! Do you plan on breeding him/her?

 

[Bellabelloo]

Whilst avoiding the tediousness of doing the weekly ironing, I managed to fish out the tylo oddity.. here is a video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c25rqRzsRKo&feature=youtu.be



There is also a picture of it trying to eat a droplet of water running down the outside of it's tub

 

[Bellabelloo]

Hiding... how many Tylototriton verrucosus can you see ?

Clue :- More than one

 

[Niels D]

It's so nice that he's doing well. Nice vid!