Video: C. orientalis, worms, shrimp, minnows

[lims]

Both the video and your tank setup are absolutely fabulous! Would you mind answering a few questions for me? First, is the rock formation you have in the tank a specific piece that you bought/made or is it a pile of rocks? Second, what kind of shrimp and fish do you have in the tank? I generally thought that you could not mix newts with other animals. Is there any other maintenance that results from having fish and shrimp in the tank? Thanks! Your setup is truly an inspiration!

Thanks jessie,,,
The tank had to be moved house, so it is arranged similar but even better now.
It's basicly a bogwood construction with a rockery on top. The layout allows alot of underwater space but still provides a good portion of land. All the plants used in the rockery require no soil, they simply take nutrients straight from the water. In the old pic up there you can see spider plants, and creeping jenny. Creeping Jenny is one of my favourite plants, as it will live on land and underwater, great for semi-aquaitic tanks, grows fast. These plants are wedged in the cracks of the rockery which also has moss growing in parts (cracks are big enought for newts to hide in).
If you can build dry stone walls you will be good at making set ups like this, stones should be 'unwobbalable'.
Newts will be able to go secretly under island and emerge from a hole inland, like smugglers...

 

[lims]

The fish are white cloud Minnows, and the shrimps are various assorted fresh water shrimps,, one has tiny pincers on long thin arms, one has no pincers, one died.
If you go to an aquarium and ask for "freshwater shrimp that dont need additional heating" they often have some. I've been meaning to find out the proper latin names but havn't yet..
Fish make a little more waste than normal, but, if you feed them less... they go less, so I have lean minnows. They get scraps whenever they can but I never specifically feed them.
The Shrimps are like cleaners,,, but dont trust or rely on them..
Given half a chance they'll skitter off with your juicy worm segment . . .

 

[lims]

On a weekend visit to Ye old aquarium you might be gripped by the cool looking blue lobster that lives in fresh water,,,
ALAS HIS PINCERS ARE TOO BIG, THOUST MUST NOT PURCHACE HIM...

 

[ravenous]

haha, so what music would you have picked ravenous? I'm open to death metal but it scares the newts,, at least I dont look like a demented wizard or something, haha, why is there a cross on your head? jokes,,all in good faith, but anyway jokes aside, heres a picture of the setup the vid was shot in:
http://www.caudata.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1363&stc=1&d=1190289145
...spot the newt

:lol: Death? nah, lets do some prog next time. Oh and thats not a pick of me, I thought Id be different. You should post your pic, with the rap and being from UK, Im guessing an Ali G look?

Great pic though, from the vid I thought id be much bigger, you got some good shots of it! I was wondering about the plants you used, but those names dont ring a bell.

 

[lims]

You can't buy creeping jenny in shops, I got it from my parents garden, I dont know the latin name sorry, spider plants are easy to come by, then u just take clippings from it's tentricles and arrange them in the rockery.

Rap is the art of the spoken word rooted in funk, reggae, and jazz, it's urban poetry, downtrodden poetry if you will, missunderstood by the world over, commercialised and given a new face.

My rap is like a great crested tritarus cristatus, majestic master of his native UK environment...
The rap that you hear on the radio is like a morphed axolotl, , , wont's last a year... and a long way from home...

 

[diamondlittle]

Sam, thanks so much for the info! I know my newts will benefit from your suggestions!

 

[Bellabelloo]

Sam...are you a secret poet? you explained it really well! thanks