Your first newt/salamander

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What was your first salamander or newt???
Hopefully I'll have some cynops orientalis or some Triturus marmoratus or Triturus pygmaeus (if I can find any Triturus marmoratus and pygmaeus!!
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Eastern Newt, lived for one week. I bought it sick. Its also the last time I had a caudate, 3 years ago i think.

(Message edited by Tindomul1of9 on November 15, 2005)
 
Blue spotted sal, rescued from some neighborhood kids who were tossing it about. Kept it for about a year before it kicked the bucket.
 
pachytriton labiatus, my cousin had it for around 10 years, and i've had it for just over a year now. God knows how old it was when it was collected!
 
Ambystoma texanum when I was ~7. Kept it in an aquarium full of water for about a month before it finally had enough and escaped. There was a lot of trial and error those first few years, more error than not.
 
whoops thats not a salamander or newt lol
and sorry for double posting it wont let me edit my post
 
I have Cynops Orientalis for almost a year now. and they breed like crazy.
 
My first were eastern newts, N. v. dorsalis. One of them lived with me for over 20 years.
 
actually. My brother bought 4 cynops Orientalis back then when in HK. I was like 9. But he didn't know how to take care of them. Without a screen cover, the newts escaped.

After seeing the cynops available in my local fish store. I decided to get some and not make the same mistake again. So keeping the cynops I have now is both for myself and for my older brother.
 
My first newt was a fuzhong warty newt and to this day I hang my head in shame and still feel guilty that I bought it on a whim from an aquarium shop without doing my homework first
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I was told that I could keep him with my goldfish and I didnt know about them being escape artists so made no attempt to close the gap in the lid where the filter cable was. He escaped and made it all the way down a flight of stairs! I found him about a foot away from my sleeping dog's nose. Fortunately, the dog wasnt at all interested and I was able to take him back upstairs but not surprisingly, he died a couple of days later
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A few months later, in May this year, when I got the tank I had bought for him properly set up I got a C. Orientalis whom I am happy to say, is still with me
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On a happier note, I also have two African dwarf frogs and the aquarium I got them at gave good advice on housing them. They are happy little chappies sharing a tropical tank with my friendly swordtails
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my first newts i caught myself when i was 10. oregon rough skinned newts. kept them til my baby brother, age 2, threw them out the window (he said they had told him they wanted to go outside). they survived the 2 story fall onto grass, because i found no newt corpses. had them for about 4 years.
 
Maybe your brother wasn't lying. Remember that article elsewhere (about teenage repellant) younger people tend to be able to hear lower frequency sound. Maybe newt can talk in lower frequency.

Kidding.
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My first amphibian was a cynops orientalis ( Jap. fire belly) I didnt know at the time. I got it from a friend who did'nt want it, and then my intrest from then just took off, many cynops have came and went, but they are awesome pets when givin the right set up.
 
my first is a taricha and now i have 3 of them and i'm getting ready to purchase 3 cfb's.
 
My first sals were Salamandra s. fastuosa and Ambystoma tigrinum great species, i still have 1 of the fastuosa now some 11 years on!
 
first newt I found and kept was triturus vulgaris (yes I know, you can't keep them in Italy, but i was only 13 and didn't even know what a newt was!)
I then bought two pachytriton labiatus
 
If this counts, my first was a barred tiger sal whom I took care of for a teacher for a couple of months in high school. Next would be Cynops cyanurus last December (would recommend to NewBs if available).
 
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