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I can't figure out what species of tiger salamander mine is

wildsalie

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My salamander looks like a barred salamander with a lot of bars. His bars are light tan to a light green with a dark green background. He looks like that really big fat salamander you have on this site just mine is more skinner and smaller.
Here is the link to the picture. http://www.caudata.org/cc/species/Ambystoma/A_tigrinum.shtml

I live in Saskatchewan Canada, I caught him quite close to northern Saskatchewan. And according to this website barred salamanders live in Texas and New Mexico. Kind of far away from northern Canada. But he not a blotched salamander because he has bars not a net like pattern and plus a blotched salamander has a dark pattern not light. And a gray salamander has smaller dark spots not light tanned/light green bars on it like mine.

My salamander is 8 inches now, but I believe he is still growing because he was smaller when I found him two months ago. My boss says they can get to over a foot long - is that true - because if it is my 10 gallon tank will not do.

Can anyone guess what the salamander is. Once again he looks exactly like a barred salamander just wrong territory (in fact wrong country).

I don't have a camera sorry. :confused:
 

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Tiger patterns can be HIGHLY variable. Location where caught is much more reliable as a species indicator than pattern.
 
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