Sean Brady
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Yesterday and earlier today, I was working on an outdoor enclosure for A. maculatum, A. laterale, and five D. fuscus. I've finished the D. fuscus section of the enclosure and I am in the midst of working on the section for the others.
This is after I had laid out the concrete blocks on a screen:
This is the D. fuscus section of the enclosure. I recreated a trickling spring like the one I found this species in. I placed a gutter splash block on sloped land. The orange object is a paint bucket with holes drilled in the top. There is a pump in the bucket which is filled with water to continuously pump water up and over the splash block:
The spring after adding rocks and leaves over the paint bucket lid and some moss around the hose(I retrieved this moss from a trip to the Adirondacks to do some canoeing and it had been sitting in a bucket for almost two years.
The spring after covering it in more leaves and moss and adding some moss-covered rocks:
The entire enclosure so far:
Also, I was wondering how low of a temperature the A. maculatum and A. laterale can tolerate. It's going to go down into the low 40's the next couple nights here and I don't have much debris for them yet.
This is after I had laid out the concrete blocks on a screen:
This is the D. fuscus section of the enclosure. I recreated a trickling spring like the one I found this species in. I placed a gutter splash block on sloped land. The orange object is a paint bucket with holes drilled in the top. There is a pump in the bucket which is filled with water to continuously pump water up and over the splash block:
The spring after adding rocks and leaves over the paint bucket lid and some moss around the hose(I retrieved this moss from a trip to the Adirondacks to do some canoeing and it had been sitting in a bucket for almost two years.
The spring after covering it in more leaves and moss and adding some moss-covered rocks:
The entire enclosure so far:
Also, I was wondering how low of a temperature the A. maculatum and A. laterale can tolerate. It's going to go down into the low 40's the next couple nights here and I don't have much debris for them yet.