My tigers

[BIGBODYBEAR]

It's been awhile since posted. I asked about set up and species, we'll I kept the half land half water a day they seem to like it, it's easy access to land or water and they enjoy daily dips in the water, even when I rearrange the rocks during water changes they still quickly adjust and find their way in and out, the male I bought a couple of months ago has picked up weight and is healthy, I quarantined him for a month and reintroduced him back to the main tank, they get along great no aggression at all and are always together, I still haven't found out the specific species the male belongs to, I did notice his eyes are golden brown and my eastern female's eyes are bright teal, I'm leaning towards blotched as was suggested on an earlier thread I posted but the blotched patterns I have seen are very different, mine has thick round spots and no stripes

 

[Polkadot]

Cool setup!

 

[Asevernnnn]

You won't be able to know for sure unless you find out the locality data, but maybe someone else could take a guess.
Though I would add more substrate, I don't think there's very much room to burrow with 2 tigers with half a tank and like 5 inches of substrate. I keep one tiger and it has a slope of 4-9inches.
And I don't know if it's the substrate in the water or a weird reflection of light but that water doesn't look very clean, how often do you do water changes/spot clean?

 

[BIGBODYBEAR]

You won't be able to know for sure unless you find out the locality data, but maybe someone else could take a guess.
Though I would add more substrate, I don't think there's very much room to burrow with 2 tigers with half a tank and like 5 inches of substrate. I keep one tiger and it has a slope of 4-9inches.
And I don't know if it's the substrate in the water or a weird reflection of light but that water doesn't look very clean, how often do you do water changes/spot clean?

I change the water every 4-5 days , I use ecoearth coconut fiber and they drag in a lot of it into the water, the water is clean but the ecoearth dragged in colors the water the first night it's changed, I slope around the subrate too that gap you see was an area that was dug up, but your right 3 months of dragging in subrate in the water has reduced inches of it, I'm going to do a full change this week, Tricky part about the species is that I live in Miami FL and the very few tigers I have seen are all easterns very similar to mine, same olive green with stripes, but this grayish spotted species is the first I ha e personally seen, I am sure it's not an eastern but it has me wondering to know if any one is familiar with this subspecies

 

[BIGBODYBEAR]

Anyone?

 

[AmbystoMan]

the one with the big black spots should be a Gray Salamander, Ambystoma mavortium diaboli, according to me...

 

[Neotenic_Jaymes]

Both look to be northern species of ambystoma. And to be honest they could be the same species, you can't judge a tiger salamander on color and pattern alone. I've seen sibling tiger salamanders that look totally opposite in pattern and color. Especially in northern species of tiger salamanders I think there's more variation of color and pattern.

Most of the time (non-mavortium/barred) species of tiger salamanders are hard to identify with a few exceptions like California Tigers Salamanders. When you see a yellow and black barred tiger salamander and you assume it's a Ambystoma mavortium your likely to be right. Dark colored tiger salamanders with blotches or with brown or tan spotting can be a number of species.

As far as what species are your tiger salamanders. Where/who did you buy from? How big are they? In 2014 lots of wild caught Ambystoma diaboli or melanostictum where available for months in the pet trade.

 

[Cliygh and Mia]

Also do any of them have names? Like princess tiger lily if one is a girl