Healthy weight?

kadventurefam

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This is our pet Tiger salamander. He was caught in his larval stage by someone else and now we have him in adult form. He doesn’t really eat from us anymore (he ate a handful of superworms, isopods, and crickets from us the first couple of weeks we had him) but his enclosure is full of isopods, springtails, and red wigglers. (There were a handful of Dubai roaches in there at one point, too).

Does he look healthy enough, like maybe he’s eating those worms on the sly and making a small snack of some of the isopods? The isopods like to hide in the log so I’m hoping they’ll have time to reproduce before he eats them all.

He’s maybe a year old in a 20 gallon high with about 6” of substrate (soil, rotting leaves, coco fiber, a few wood chips).
 

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He looks to be a healthy weight, if not a bit on the chunky side. Tiger salamanders can be prone to obesity but he looks good
 
He looks to be a healthy weight, if not a bit on the chunky side. Tiger salamanders can be prone to obesity but he looks good
Thanks! I knew they could be prone to obesity. Check out these chonkers we saw at an aquarium in Salt Lake City. We will definitely try to not let ours get this big.
 

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