mud puppy?
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Housing your axolotl
Axolotls can be housed in an aquarium. One or two axolotls of about the same size can be kept in the same tank but make sure there is plenty of room for the animals to move about. (A big axolotl will eat a smaller axolotl!)
The water should be filtered and changed from time to time.
Feeding
Axolotls are carnivores which means they eat meat. They find their food by sight and by by scent. Feed your axolotl earthworms, crickets and tadpoles. Some axolotls will eat fish food pellets. Any uneaten food should be removed from the water.
Aquarium fish may bite at the axolotl's gills so it is best to not house fish and axolotls together. But if an axolotl has a gill or a fin bitten off, it will soon grow back!
Axolotls can live for more than 10 years in captivity
Axolotls can be housed in an aquarium. One or two axolotls of about the same size can be kept in the same tank but make sure there is plenty of room for the animals to move about. (A big axolotl will eat a smaller axolotl!)
The water should be filtered and changed from time to time.
Feeding
Axolotls are carnivores which means they eat meat. They find their food by sight and by by scent. Feed your axolotl earthworms, crickets and tadpoles. Some axolotls will eat fish food pellets. Any uneaten food should be removed from the water.
Aquarium fish may bite at the axolotl's gills so it is best to not house fish and axolotls together. But if an axolotl has a gill or a fin bitten off, it will soon grow back!
Axolotls can live for more than 10 years in captivity
http://www.herpnet.net/Iowa-Herpetology/amphibians/salamanders/mudpuppy.html
this site will tell you a little more about the species.. and www.animals.com should sell i think (i cant bring up the site for some reason them but they are a little high in price and shipping price there..
this site will tell you a little more about the species.. and www.animals.com should sell i think (i cant bring up the site for some reason them but they are a little high in price and shipping price there..
what you prolly had was a larval tiger salamander..aquatic as babys but Terrestrial adult tiger salamander
i bought 2 of en at diff times both labled mudd puppys but it was pet co and u never know about that place
ppl have told me that some pet store offer tiger salamanders as mudpuppys..but a true mudpuppy is a Necturus maculosus and is illegal in many states to catch or collect.
some muddpuppys cang into salimanders because of temp and conditions. all muddpuppys are salimanders just they stay in larval form for resons and may chang due to conditions
