mattknepley
New member
Hello all,
I found this forum trying to get an id on a caudate some friends and I turned up seining for fish in a tiny Athens, GA stream. I'll post that request in a more appropriate part of the forum.
As for my involvement with salamanders and newts, it is limited. As a kid I lived in a couple areas which had no shortage of red efts. We used to play with them after a good rain. I still am amazed by their bright colors, and the thought that they must have had a pretty good migration ahead of them to become aquatic newt adults. There wasn't any permanent water for a good long ways around. I have toyed with the idea of keeping tiger salamanders, but never followed through. I have a 55 gallon tank of native SC fishes, and would enjoy adding an eastern newt to it should I come across one.
I have a little more experience with anurans. I have successfully kept firebellied toads, dart frogs, and African dwarf frogs. I am also a volunteer surveyor for the North American Amphibian Monitoring Program.
But enough about me. I enjoy exploring this site and learning a lot!
Matt
I found this forum trying to get an id on a caudate some friends and I turned up seining for fish in a tiny Athens, GA stream. I'll post that request in a more appropriate part of the forum.
As for my involvement with salamanders and newts, it is limited. As a kid I lived in a couple areas which had no shortage of red efts. We used to play with them after a good rain. I still am amazed by their bright colors, and the thought that they must have had a pretty good migration ahead of them to become aquatic newt adults. There wasn't any permanent water for a good long ways around. I have toyed with the idea of keeping tiger salamanders, but never followed through. I have a 55 gallon tank of native SC fishes, and would enjoy adding an eastern newt to it should I come across one.
I have a little more experience with anurans. I have successfully kept firebellied toads, dart frogs, and African dwarf frogs. I am also a volunteer surveyor for the North American Amphibian Monitoring Program.
But enough about me. I enjoy exploring this site and learning a lot!
Matt