AW: Re: Lucky T. Taliangensis and me
Hello everyone,
I am sorry for the delay. I had problems with my computer.
Thanks for sharing your oppinions and also thanks for the congratulations.
In the following I can just describe what I did that seemed to be resulting in this success:
I keep them in my backyard from Spring to Autumn in a tank 80 x 80 cm in a most shadow covered place, small parts of the tank get direct sunlight as well.
The tank is slightly transversal. Waterlevel is ca.1 cm at the back of the tank, and about 12 cm at the front because that makes it possible to create several levels of dry areas in the back of the tank (mostly stones, cork bark and rough moss that is also reaching into the water). I give them plenty of food constantly: Crickets, worms, waterlouses, freshwater shrimps.
The back part of the tank is covered with perforated plate because I had seen local bird sittin in the tank and feeding on the crickets I gave as food.
On the other parts the tank is fully exposed to rain and all weather conditions. Therefore I have to watch the waterlevel and remove water that is to much. When removing water I also make sure to clean (removing dirt from the water etc). No filteration in the tank at all.
During winter I keep them in a box with only cork and moss (40x70cm) and in a cold room in the basement. The temperature is underneath 10° Celsius. In the winter I continue feeding with crickets and worms.
In all my tanks I feed rasped bio-carrott to the crickets as well.
The larvae and the youngsters stay in the tank with the adult animals for the whole summer outside and will be sepearated from the adults in Autumn when the adults will be moved into the winterbox. If there is still larvas, they will be kept in watertanks but also in the cold room during winter.
ummi
