I am very happy to say that after at least a 10 year "sabbatical" from the hobby I am once again returning to the hobby of keeping aquatic amphibinas and invertebrates. I have spent a lot of time recently researching many of the new innovations in aqua-terrarium keeping, from tanks with ramps and filter cut-outs to internal filtration systems, etc. I am from the "old school" - when I started out in the hobby 35 years ago you dragged an old heavy 20 long into the front yard, washed it out with the hose, spent the entire weekend cutting and gluing in little plexiglass ramps, broke your back cleaning the set-up every weekend, and then had to let the animals go in the local pond when winter came because appropriate foods were not readily available if the weather did not permit you to catch your own worms and insects. Anyone here remember those days?
What I have kept before and am looking to resume with are totally aquatic amphibs such as axolotlys, sirens, necturus, and mudskippers. I would very much like to hear about other folk's set-ups and which products they feel are most useful in regards to filtration and so forth. Everyone have a great day!
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Let's Discuss Set-ups
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Go to caudata.org and click on the link to caudata culture. Not only are there good care sheets but there are some good pics of setups for totally aquatic species.
Ed
Hi - I don't have TOTALLY aquatic amphibs, but rough-skinned newts are pretty aquatic.
I have 2 of them in a 15-gallon tank with gravel, rocks and a "turtle dock" - a dock that floats up and down on rails that keep it in place. I use a penguin 120 biofilter set-up with water just about 1/2 way up the tank. I use a rock "hill" to keep the waterfall from causing too much of a current.
I have aquatic plants living there, too - some planted some floating - as the newts enjoy hanging onto the plants.
The rocks break the surface in a couple of spots, although I think I'm going to add another "dock."
I'm also thinking about putting some kind of substrate onto the docks and planting them too. Just haven't figured out what to use and how to do this yet.
I feed them small crickets and chopped earthworms.
--tworoughs (Jimmy & Libby - soon-to-be-set-free)
