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I found him in my cardboard pile in my backyard.

I'm going to turn him loose in the area i found him in, but what would a person feed an animal this small?

Christian

It is either Aneides vagrans or Aneides ferreus, depending on where you found it. I have kept both species from wild caught juveniles, they do very well. At that size, I'm guessing ~3-5cm, you could feed it pin-head-1/8in crickets, flightless fruitflies (hydeii) and springtails. If you keep it set it up in a Tupperware shoebox with some tiny vent holes, about 1/2in of coconut fiber as a substrait (PetSmart or PetCo) and a couple of slabs of bark stacked/layered on each other, they like to hide in between. You could also use crumbled/decomposing wood/bark from a local source (where you found it) as a substrait. Make sure you put some weight on the box or rubberband it, they are notorious for squeezing out of containers. Use www.caudata.org if you have any more questions.

RUSS

Super! thank you very much!! I found him in my backyard in Arcata, California. I might try keeping him if i can locate the proper food source. I'll see if i can get crickets that small. I have no idea where to get fruitflies. Thank you again for your infomation and fast response.

Christian

Then its A.vagrans, the wandering salamander. If you can get crickets, that's fine. You can order fruitflies here under feeders in the classified, though I think I've seen them cheaper on Dendroboard.com.

RUSS