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Taliangensis gone wild

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Yansolo

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After about a month of acclimating my taliangs for about a month, here are some photos of them.
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Here is one returning to the water after basking on driftwood
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Here is a full tank shot of the 55 gallon tank I am housing them in. It's the tank on the bottom
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Finally some of the tank mates
A school of some white cloud mountain minnows
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And a black ranchu
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There are also some dojo loaches but they spend most of the time burrowed in the sand
 
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The goldfish or black ranchu or however you call it, it´s completely inadequate as a tankmate. They produce pure ammonia in significant quantities, and you have taken a risk exposing the newts to it as goldfish are carriers of patogens that can infect them. I strongly recommend separating the fish.
Also, Tylototriton seems to inhabit ponds and body masses that are free of fish, so forcing them to coexist with them is likely to cause stress by the chemical pressence of the fish. They´d be better off alone, that´s for sure.
 
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Thanks for all the help, I didn't know that there would be a chemical presence from the fish that could cause the newts stress. I will definately remove all the fish from the tank as I do not want to kill these newts. That makes so much sense now as to why I never find any fish when I go and observe Taricha torosa in the cataracts of Mount Tamalpias with the exception of one pond that has Pacific tree frogs, bullfrogs, California newts and mosquito fish. This pond that I visit does seem to be a bit stressful due to the competition for food and unfortunately it seems like the bullfrogs and mosquito fish are taking over this pond.
 
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Nice ranchu, if it's still black it's probably of thailand origin :D
 
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They are very drought tolerant as 4 of them escaped the tank I found them 4 weeks too late in the garage, alive but shriveled up. Next time I know to have a screen top type of setup for housing them. A few of them just wouldn't get better and died. I have a couple of males left and they are just winter resting in coco fiber. So not too great of a success story
 
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