Hiya! Finally gettin' around to saying hello!

Well, I'm Arissa and from the boring Illinois (not born there of course). XD I am a 22 year old Female. I love drawing, painting, reading, writing, Video games, Motorcycles, camping, swimming, fishing, volleyball, and kayaking. I love all animals including Salamanders, Birds, Tarantulas, fish, and everything in between.

This spring (I think beginning of April) I went down to my Boyfriend's Pond and swamp and managed to find a salamander laying her eggs. At the time we had no idea she was even doing this until on our way back to his house and I noticed these weird slimy clear balls with a black dot in the middle. We ran back to the pond to investigate and found more where she had been. They took about a month to hatch (including additional ones I found later). At least twelve of the eggs I have hatched are hers.

There are also about 19 about to go through metamorphosis and 7 or so who already have. Now these I have no idea the species.

Soooo..... I need to know where to place Species inquiries! I think Momma was a smallmouth but I would like to verify that as well as the cuties who Love their little Black worms. I just released Momma Sally last night as I would like her to have more babies next year. Half of the cuties I raise will return to their birthing swamp more towards the end of the summer and the rest I'm keeping or finding permanent loving homes.

Welcome to the forum! I'm sure a picture of your sal would get it identified in a minute. You can post it in this thread if you like. I think people on the forum love identification requests because then we all get to show how smart we are LOL

Well lets see what I can Do...

Sally, Mommy of 12 that are still growing:




I'm pretty sure Iggy is a Different Species than Slippy and Stumpy cause of the head shape from above.

Slippy:

Stumpy:

Iggy: