Re: <font color="0000ff"><i>Cynops pyrrhogaster</i> in the wild - <b>Special!</b></font>
From what I've seen with my own small group of C. pyrrhogaster, they don't seem bothered at all by slight movement in the water from airstones or diffused spraybars. I've tried many planting levels from sparse to pretty much choked with weed. The newts seem happiest with areas of dense plants that grow all the way to the surface for resting, interspersed with clear areas where they can hunt, feed and swim directly up to the top for air without having to crawl through anything to get there.
It's a shame Tim Johnson doesn't post on here any more, I've learned an awful lot about C. pyrrho's by reading his threads.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the info Chinadog!
There are no visible weeds or water plants, but there would be fallen leaves and roots for cover. I suppose it's also possible that the newts just spend their day to day life in he stream and could congregate elsewhere in the breeding season?
I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. So then, from you experience with these newts do you think it would be possible to keep them in a slow deep creek kind of a setup throughout the year until the breeding season, and then you could transfer them to a heavily planted tank to breed?
From what I've seen with my own small group of C. pyrrhogaster, they don't seem bothered at all by slight movement in the water from airstones or diffused spraybars. I've tried many planting levels from sparse to pretty much choked with weed. The newts seem happiest with areas of dense plants that grow all the way to the surface for resting, interspersed with clear areas where they can hunt, feed and swim directly up to the top for air without having to crawl through anything to get there.
Thanks for sharing!
It's a shame Tim Johnson doesn't post on here any more, I've learned an awful lot about C. pyrrho's by reading his threads.
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It is unfortunate that he isn't still around indeed, I too have learned a lot from him.