Tiger salamander care

[KingCam]

can eastern sals can live with western sals? can different sized sals live together or like with frogs smaller ones can become food for bigger ones?

I think different sub species of tiger salamanders can live together without issue, but you probably better not take me at my word on that.

I could see a very small tiger becoming a meal for a very large tiger, but it would have to be one heck of a size difference I would imagine.

I keep my blotched tigers seperate from my easterns just because of the incredible size difference.

[rodsboys]

The only reasons I would seperate them is because of a huge size difference. The "one is small enough to be eaten by another senario". OR if you are trying to breed them, you obviously would not want hybrids of the sub species though I am sure they occur in the wild where the sub species over lap.

[Lija]

no I'm not planning on keeping together just wondering thank you!
by the way you were right! salamanders are amazing, getting out it's hide every time you pass by probably in hopes of getting food, but it is nice anyway

[Lija]

hm... a question - how much food if enough? the guy eats 5 adult crickets one after another everyday and would probably eat some more if given, even for small sal it seems to be too much...

s/he refuses pieces of nightcrawlers or any type of worms, dubia are illegal, so that leaves me with crickets for now, but will try to transition to nightcrawlers eventually.

[Maharg]

hm... a question - how much food if enough? the guy eats 5 adult crickets one after another everyday and would probably eat some more if given, even for small sal it seems to be too much...

s/he refuses pieces of nightcrawlers or any type of worms, dubia are illegal, so that leaves me with crickets for now, but will try to transition to nightcrawlers eventually.

Maybe the Salamander is refusing the nightcrawlers because they are cut up and not moving around as much? When I was at Riverfront at night I always got to watch them feed. They just dropped in a massive amount of nightcrawlers and all the Tigers were just going nuts like a free-for-all. They werent used to them being cut in chunks and every Salamander there had a worm in its mouth. Id just try full worms and not worry about cutting them up.

[Lija]

seriously? you saw them do that recently? for one of those that I have? i thought the whole nightcrawler is too big, mean it is now about 7" or 8" long with a tail, but the body looks small. may be i should try butterworms or wax worms, will go on a reptile store trip then today :lol:

it is just hilarious how the guy learned to beg for food an also interesting that s/he differentiate whom to beg for it, very interesting personality

[Maharg]

seriously? you saw them do that recently? for one of those that I have? i thought the whole nightcrawler is too big, mean it is now about 7" or 8" long with a tail, but the body looks small. may be i should try butterworms or wax worms, will go on a reptile store trip then today :lol:

it is just hilarious how the guy learned to beg for food an also interesting that s/he differentiate whom to beg for it, very interesting personality

Yes, Im always at riverfront around 8 and I got to watch them feed quite a few times. They were just dropping in lots of full nightcrawlers, and the ones at riverfront are pretty big. In fact, riverfronts crawlers are the biggest ive found in the city. Itd take them quite a while to get it down, and I know nothing about Salamanders to know if its healthy, but they had no problems and im sure they get a hold of some pretty big ones in nature. Tiger Salamanders are native to Calgary and we have some pretty huge nightcrawlers here so im sure they dont have an issue with worms being to big.