Found salamander eggs in drainage creek, now what?

[chuby]

Found some, (what I think to be), salamander eggs in a drannage/runnoff behind my house.

I have them in a room temp tank right now with no current.

How do I go about raising the little suckers?

 

[Freddie Mercury]

You probably should have left them alone. Just my opinion.

 

[Mike D]

i would put them back. or just leave them maybe get a small sponge filter to put in there so the water doesnt go stagnant

 

[chuby]

Freddie Mercury

I think I'd probly agree with you if the circunstance was diffrent. I believe that nature should be left as is without unnaural human interfearence, (bsicly anything besides accedently steping on somthing or killing for food, that sort of thing). But the place I found the eggs was in pretty $hity conditions and wasn't what I consider a natural enviornment.

i would put them back. or just leave them maybe get a small sponge filter to put in there so the water doesnt go stagnant

The place that I found them was stagnent and I think probably paluted, maybe, maybenot, ut it looked like $hit and there was rust colored stuff covering the bottom and fallen branches, that was bubbled up like oil or grese.

Would it be a problem to relocate the little guys once they hatch and get a little bigger?

 

[coura]

Freddie Mercury

I think I'd probly agree with you if the circunstance was diffrent. I believe that nature should be left as is without unnaural human interfearence, (bsicly anything besides accedently steping on somthing or killing for food, that sort of thing). But the place I found the eggs was in pretty $hity conditions and wasn't what I consider a natural enviornment.



The place that I found them was stagnent and I think probably paluted, maybe, maybenot, ut it looked like $hit and there was rust colored stuff covering the bottom and fallen branches, that was bubbled up like oil or grese.

Would it be a problem to relocate the little guys once they hatch and get a little bigger?

No it wont if it is as close as possible to the original site. you dont need to filter the water, just use unclorinated water the baby sallys will hatch very soon and you probably should relocate them as soon as they do.

 

[Danny Monster]

o.o

 

[chuby]

OK, cool! I have a good place in mind.

 

[Noto]

Return them to the original site or don't release them at all. Otherwise you are introducing genetic pollution.

What do the eggs look like? Do you have pictures?

 

[krichardson]

Return them to the original site or don't release them at all. Otherwise you are introducing genetic pollution.

What do the eggs look like? Do you have pictures?

Genetic pollution?

 

[Noto]

Different populations of animals have local adaptations to their environment. Introducing a bunch of strangers from another population can introduce new, non-adaptive genes and lower the overall fitness of the population or even swamp the native stock and create a more homogenous overall gene pool. This has already happened to a lot of species that get moved around a lot, such as game fish.