Heat and humidity

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Hello!
At last I joined this forum (have been reading it since 2003).

I would like to ask about temperature for S.s.salamandra. I saw post in Russian forum where one person said that he kept this salamander on 20-24 C (for longer period) and even 28 C (for shorter time) without any problems. According to him the most important factor to prevent them from stress was high humidity level 90 % and more. Salamanders ate more, but no illness or death occurred. From what this person wrote in his other posts I understood that he is quite experienced
I have no experience with S.salamandra, but always thought that it is not recommended to keep it at such temperature. So I decided to ask in this forum. Can high humidity at least partially solve overheating problem?
 
Hi,
yesterday i met a friend who told me the same about his Salamandra atra - he keeps them in a room that gets over 25°C for many weeks in summer, and his S. atra are healthy and reproduce regularly.
My Salamandra salamandra are in a room with temperatures reaching 24 or 25°C for the hottest weeks of the summer. During these weeks i see them rarely, and they don`t eat much. Maybe the cause is the lower air humidity? i don`t know, I thought it was the temperature, but that may be a mistake.
Anyway, they are healthy, and 10 days ago i found my first captive bred fire salamander larvae.
Olaf
 
I have written a paper on temperature tolerance in salamanders and newts during a heat wave, if you send me a private message I'll send it to you. Although I can say that it is possible to keep species warmer during a (summer) period, on the long term low temperatures are necessary to stimulate breeding behaviour and for reproduction.
 
Thank you for replies!
To Olaf Czinczel: You are very lucky to make them breed. It's good feeling (I still remember my first Pleurodeles larva).
To Sergé Bogaerts: I have found your paper on www.podarcis.nl recently. Interesting observations.
 
Okay, good you found the site where the paper is published. I agree that the combination of a good condition of the animals with low humidity and higher temperatures will be no problem for them for a few weeks or months. For some southern populations this might even be necessary to stimulate breeding.
Nice to share this information.
 
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