SwampApe
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Hello. I have my first Herp named Herb. Herb is a 5in long New Mexico Tiger Salamander that I saved from being musky bait. He matches the markings of a NM, anyway. It's been a fast friendship over the last 4 days. He already greets me at the side of his terrarium, poking his head up out of the fiber.
I assembled something that I think he's happy with. There is a small 6x6 water dish, a coconut hut, and resin skull laid on top of the requisite coconut fiber lining. I put in a few larger 3in rocks to make it easier to get in and out of his water dish. That is all lined with some long, feathery, plastic fish tank plants strewn like brush trimmings. He can dig, climb, and swim and does all three. He's active in there, but not neurotic like a lizard.
The appetite of this little fella is impressive. I gave him two small earthworms a day after I brought him home. He tore into them like a true predator, thrashing around like he was in a rock concert. I'd say he really likes them. Today, two days later, I gave him a moth and four small crickets. He's not shy about food at all, and he likes his water dish. BTW, I feed him with hemostats. The crickets are in a little critter-tote.
Most of the time he burrows in the
I assembled something that I think he's happy with. There is a small 6x6 water dish, a coconut hut, and resin skull laid on top of the requisite coconut fiber lining. I put in a few larger 3in rocks to make it easier to get in and out of his water dish. That is all lined with some long, feathery, plastic fish tank plants strewn like brush trimmings. He can dig, climb, and swim and does all three. He's active in there, but not neurotic like a lizard.
The appetite of this little fella is impressive. I gave him two small earthworms a day after I brought him home. He tore into them like a true predator, thrashing around like he was in a rock concert. I'd say he really likes them. Today, two days later, I gave him a moth and four small crickets. He's not shy about food at all, and he likes his water dish. BTW, I feed him with hemostats. The crickets are in a little critter-tote.
Most of the time he burrows in the