50% mark

hitower1575 · Oct 6, 2012

I am at the 50% mark with 3 of 6 major tanks...

Bellabelloo · Oct 6, 2012

Looks interesting, so what is going to be living in them?

hitower1575 · Oct 6, 2012

We have several spanish ribbed newts, and dwarf spanish ribs. We have lesser sirens and southern dwarf sirens, we have red mud salamanders. We also have gold dust popei newts, and warty newts. We also have a hi band shark.

In a different tank we have white, blue and multicolor crayfish, fire-arribia salamanders, channel catfish, garra pinni pinni's, bitterling, and various other great animals in other tanks. . . more to come . . . .

:happy:

Yahilles · Oct 7, 2012

I am going to ask simply:
Are you joking with making a soup out of different newt&salamander species, also adding fish to this ill mix?

hitower1575 · Oct 7, 2012

Not a soup, I have 4 60 gallon tanks, a 135, a 200, 3 10's, and 6 Micro terrariums. I also have my larger tanks equipped with a large terrestrial area on top. so that adds a great deal of space. So no joke and no soup. I am very serious about all of my animals. I run the best biological filtration as well as Ultraviolet filtration. I further more have a double minor in Water Science. I work for one of the largest water facilities in Los Angeles and have access to water testing treatments not available to most hobbyist. As an Agriculture major I am very aware of the responsibilities of careful animal conservation. But I do respect your concern, cheers...

Otterwoman · Oct 8, 2012

The tanks look great. Where are the tylos going? I meant to tell you, you can teach them to hand feed. I hand feed all my large newts (tylos, kweichows, T. grans). I love their greedy little mouths.

methodik · Oct 8, 2012

So on the second picture I think I see a Siren and a Pleurodeles leucistic, is that correct?

Yahilles · Oct 8, 2012

It's cool you have scientific degrees, but that doesn't change the fact that you should neither keep various newt species together nor mix them with fish.

eljorgo · Dec 2, 2012

Hello Mark.

You should start by creating a nice habitat-made paludarium/terrarium/aquaterrarium for each species. Then you populate each environment with its own species. Different animal species, different toxicity ratios, different feeding specializations, different habitat specializations, different breeding patterns, different temperature needs, different salinity, different hardness, different p[H] and so on.
Since you have a major I believe you already knew all this and on. But you must put your knowledge into practical solutions. Knowledge is only a solution when you use it.
That would be good for your live animals and therefore to you.
Remember: Surviving isn't the same as living, if your animals could talk that's what they would be telling you every time you came close to their enclosures.

Regards and good luck with the upgrades.

xxianxx · Dec 2, 2012

hitower1575 said:
I run the best biological filtration as well as Ultraviolet filtration.

I was asked a question about ultraviolet filtration the other day and didnt know the answer. Does its use effect the cycling process by killing bacteria ?

Yahilles · Dec 3, 2012

Ultraviolet filtration kills EVERYTHING in the water that passes through the filter - it's effective mainly against planktonic algae. High percentage of bacteria live on surfaces (stones, sand, plants, water surface) and the UV filtration does not really affect them. It shouldn't affect cycling negatively, it can only help by preventing the green water gloom. At least theoretically, because i never used such advanced stuff in my tanks

Azhael · Dec 3, 2012

I have no experience with these, either, but my suspition is the same as Janusz´s. Since the bacteria form a biofilm on every submerged surface, they shouldn´t be affected. However, this does nothing towards the suitability of mixing those species. The filtration system changes nothing...the mixes you are carrying come with totally unnecessary (and yet very real) risks and given the choice of species, offering adequate housing for every species in a single enclosure is virtually imposible. Quire frankly i´m amazed the popei haven´t been ripped to pieces yet among other things...
Please reconsider your choices...what you are doing to those poor animals puts them in serious danger and produces no benefits other than satisfying your desires (which is a very petty benefit if it can be counted as such at all). Surely the welfare of your beloved pets is worth infinitely more than satisfying your wish to see them all together.

Also, please understand that i´m not saying this for the sake of attacking someone i disagree with...it´s because i´m concerned about the well being of your animals and for very good reason.

Yahilles · Dec 4, 2012

It just looks like some people after getting a degree consider themselves all-wise and decline to listen to anyone's experience but perhaps someone with a higher degree...

Kaysie · Dec 4, 2012

I'm just a biologist (my two degrees are in animal biology and wildlife management), but I think keeping two completely unrelated species with totally different temperaments from different continents is just asking for trouble.

slowfoot · Dec 4, 2012

It's crazy!

- Dr. Slowfoot, MS, PhD in evolutionary biology

xxianxx · Dec 4, 2012

Nerdstomped ! colloquial definition of being jumped on metaphorically by single-minded expert in a particular technical field
example of usage "He said he had degree in newts and got trumped by a Ph.D., he got totally nerdstomped !"

Yahilles · Dec 5, 2012

Can somebody translate the above as i completely miss the point?

xxianxx · Dec 5, 2012

Yahilles said:
Can somebody translate the above as i completely miss the point?

The point is simple, if somebody considers that they are correct when discussing a certain topic as their educational qualifications are better than the other people involved in a discussion, it is only logical that when a person who is better qualified than them takes an alternate stance that the second person should automatically be correct and their view point accepted. I am sorry if you failed to understand my point delivered through the medium of humor, I will explain myself better in future posts through the medium of....... dance. :ha:

jewett · Dec 5, 2012

Ian that made me snort /laugh right out loud. It caused me to awaken my dog.

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