Fire belly newts..?

Winterwind, you might be surprised at how much cooler a tank with a screen lid and no strip light can be than a tank with a traditional aquarium hood. My 20 gallon with a full Eclipse hood and 30w of lightings stays steady at 74 degrees. My 29 gallon newt tank with screen lid and wall mounted compact flourescent stays at 68 degrees. They are in adjacent rooms with the same central air conditioning and both are beside windows. I think having a canister filter helps alot too. I sprung for the zoo med turtle filter, and it doesn't raise the temp at all.
 
Here's another newt setup. Added the plants today...also add a rather large fat black and white newt I found in my yard today...lol...he's underneath the moss. Definitly needs more cover in here for him/her....a bit at a time. I used moss from my backyard btw. Great stuff !

This is a little 5 gallon tank I picked up at an lfs for 4$. One of thier used leftovers. Works for me ! This has a small striplight with a 10Watt compact flourescent light. The strip light cost me all of 11$...plus tax.

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I saw some in the LFS today and they called them tiger newts or something like that...can't remember exactly what. I'll have to pull him out and get a pic for you. He's pretty cool...fat and chunkie...lol....black, with white tiger like stripes
 
EMG,
Looks to me you have a tiger salamander, a really cool amphibian in my book. I have had a few in my time and they make great pets, take good care of him and you should have him for a long time.


Winterwind, you might be surprised at how much cooler a tank with a screen lid and no strip light can be than a tank with a traditional aquarium hood. My 20 gallon with a full Eclipse hood and 30w of lightings stays steady at 74 degrees. My 29 gallon newt tank with screen lid and wall mounted compact flourescent stays at 68 degrees. They are in adjacent rooms with the same central air conditioning and both are beside windows. I think having a canister filter helps alot too. I sprung for the zoo med turtle filter, and it doesn't raise the temp at all.
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greendeltatke, I think you are on to something, usually lids keep heat and humidity in side the tank. Keeping a screen top will allow your tank to breathe and you would not get fungus or other nasties in there.
And a zoo med turtle filter is the way to go IMO, it can handle the bio load a a few newts and fish and will help your water quality if you do not change the water as often as you should.
 
Yeah Trickster....I saw some really large specimen in one of the LFSs the same day I found this guy in my yard. I didn't look to see how much they were asking for them. We also get these black salamanders with white spots...and ones with yellow spots when you are lucky enough to find them. I usually just show the kids and then let them go...but this is the biggest one I've found so far. Thought he was pretty cool myself...now I have to go out and dig up some worms for him...lol.... :rolleyes:
 
Emg, that looks like a marbled salamander, Ambystoma opacum. The folks at www.caudata.org would know for sure. They have species specific care sheets there if you are interested. He looks like a nice fat little guy. Or girl. :huh: I really wouldn't know the difference.
 
ok i just sat and read all of these post and looked at all the pics and now im pretty sure im going to do this but with firebelly toads. but i have a question now emg has a female betta with her newts and i was thinking that cool but i would like a male betta. now the thing im worried about is not the betta being mean to the frog but the other way around would the frog pick on the betta sap its fins or anything or are they peacful like adfs also on that last note could i put adfs in the tank as well i thnk that would be great.
 
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