Baby salamanders are growing up.

[SweetApples]

Baby salamanders have grown and look nearly ready to leave the water now. I have left floating items at the top of the water so they can climb out on "islands" in case I miss the right time. Unfortunately I am now planning to be away early September for two weeks. This means my plans to move few of them into aquariums inside as originally planned to keep as pets would be messed up. If they are ready to be on land and need someone to come feed them while I am away, that would be a problem as I have nobody that can check on and feed critters here.
I have automatic feeders for all of the fish.
With that in mind, I think I'm going to move all of the salamanders back to the pond where they came from within the next week so they can crawl away in the into the forest or where-ever it these salamanders were going.

[SweetApples]

Surprise development today I found one of the baby salamanders fully metamorphized and leaving the water. I picked up the salamander and realized why these salamanders haven't been turning orange as expected. In a case of mistaken idenity, these salamanders seem to be spotted salamanders not Eastern Newts. This is exciting as these salamanders are rare around here.

[N3XU5]

Do you have any pictures of your salamanders?

[SweetApples]

I took pictures of one of the little salamanders this afternoon, my camera is hooked right now and none of the pictures have loaded. Hopefully I can post them if I can get the pictures to load.

[N3XU5]

I took pictures of one of the little salamanders this afternoon, my camera is hooked right now and none of the pictures have loaded. Hopefully I can post them if I can get the pictures to load.

Thanks.