Right... No one is saying to go collect tons of salamanders, we're just saying hobbyists keeping a couple wild caught salamanders are not the main cause for the depletion of salamander populations. But hey, it's cool to drive your SUV's, over consume, drive on all those nice roads that used to be salamander habitats (who cares if a few get crunched on the road along the way?), I could go on and on if you want... because those things have NOTHING to do with them vanishing... It's obviously the small number of hobbyists keeping small numbers of salamanders that's making them vanish... And just for the record, none of my salamanders were captured by me, I saved them from being impaled on a hook and left to die so some redneck could catch a huge fish... Sorry to offend anyone but I just think people should think about as many aspects of things before ridiculing someone else... In an ideal world we would all have captive bred tiger salamanders (which is what I THINK this thread was about??? exchanging ideas on how to breed these creatures so we can ultimately not HAVE to have wild caught animals... therefore attempting to preserve the animals in the long run???).
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0.1.0 Colombian Red-tailed Boa (100% Het. for albino)
0.0.2 Western Hognose Snakes
0.2.1 Plains Garter Snakes
1.0.0 Red-sided Garter Snake
1.2.0 Barred Tiger Salamanders
0.0.1 Red-eared Slider
0.0.1 Common Snapping Turtle

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