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Glad I found this forum. What an amazingly well constructed site!!

I am managing an Animal Care Facility for a university and have a researcher wanting to raise and breed our local spotted salamanders - Ambystoma maculatum. I'm reading like crazy all over this site (SO much great stuff!) but still not finding anyone who has successfully breed these animals in captivity.

We have many larvae now metamorphosing into salamanders. We have facilities to regulate temperature and photoperiod, but not sure if I can grow them to maturity faster by not simulating winters. Or do they need winter?

I will start a thread on this issue under the proper species location elsewhere.

Nice to be here where people truly CARE about these lovely critters.
 
Canadian's from the East coast! You are so lucky to live in such a beautiful place!
 
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