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Ambystoma mavortium & maculatum

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Hey, i was just wandering how a Ambystoma mavortium and a Ambystoma mallacatum would react to being in the same enclosure? would the similar size and the relatively close relation prevent them from eating one another? Or might they just get territorial?

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Re: Ambystoma mavoritum , mallacatum

For one thing, Ambystoma mavortium and Ambystoma maculatum are not similar in size. Adult tigers are generally much larger. Although some Ambystomatids can be kept together, this mix would most likely end in tragedy. Also spotted salamanders are much more skiddish then tigers are. If you want both, I'd setup two different enclosures. Hope that answers your question!:D
 
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Re: Ambystoma mavoritum , mallacatum

I assume you mean A. mavortium and A. maculatum? The safest and most likely answer is a simple "no". There are some circumstances in which it could work, for some indeterminate period of time (until the tiger got too big or too tame), but there are a lot of "ifs" involved. How large is the enclosure? Do you know for sure the size of the animals (in other words, do you already own them, or are thinking of getting them)? How much risk are you willing to take?
 
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Re: Ambystoma mavoritum , mallacatum

Jennewt said:
I assume you mean A. mavortium and A. maculatum? The safest and most likely answer is a simple "no". There are some circumstances in which it could work, for some indeterminate period of time (until the tiger got too big or too tame), but there are a lot of "ifs" involved. How large is the enclosure? Do you know for sure the size of the animals (in other words, do you already own them, or are thinking of getting them)? How much risk are you willing to take?
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I haven't already got them it isn't anything i was SERIOUSLY considering just something i thought i could do because i wanted to keep both and don't really have space or time to maintain two separate enclosures! if it was seriously going to endanger either of them and would take a lot of work to do i wont go ahead with it! maybe a few years from now! (thanks for spelling corrections!)

thanks alot!
 
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