Pseudotriton larvae

[Carl Brune]

Last year I raised up some Pseudotriton montanus and Pseudotriton ruber larvae. I wrote up a bunch of the details on a webpage. Somebody suggested that this might be of interest to the people here. Here's a couple of teasers:

And here is the link: http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~brune/larvae-08/larvae-08.html

 

[Alejandro]

What a nice and interesting report! Thank you very much for sharing all this information with us.

 

[tdimler]

Carl,

Welcome to the forum...and thanks for posting this!

Travis

 

[katebutton]

very cool- the wine cooler is such a fantastic idea

 

[John]

Very interesting stuff. Great photography too. I've considered using a wine cooler a few times myself, but it's nice to see a real example of them in use. Thank you.

 

[caudatadude28]

That was very interesting and imformative. Thankyou for posting it. Those are beautiful salamanders!

 

[Jan]

Carl - if these are 'teasers'.....I can't wait to see what else you have! Beautiful photos and very nice write-up.

Welcome to the forum.

 

[Carl Brune]

Thanks for the comments, everybody.

 

[John]

I got one of these fridges tonight. Two things I think are worth mentioning. Firstly, the fridge is $99 at Lowes here in Texas (ouch) but I was in need of one in a hurry so I laid back and thought of England. The other thing to consider is that the shelves are designed to hold wine (yes, strange that, given it's a wine cooler), so you need to make something to go on the shelves to hold flat bottomed objects like the tupperware containers that Carl employs. Aside from that, it seems to work well.

 

[Carl Brune]

The one I purchased had a couple of racks made out of heavy gauge wire. All I had to do was remove those, then stack tupperware from the bottom.

 

[John]

The one I purchased had a couple of racks made out of heavy gauge wire. All I had to do was remove those, then stack tupperware from the bottom.

... or you could do that.

However, I like having the gaps for air circulation - gives more rapid cooling I think. I've got mine set up in 3 tiers (bottom, first shelf, top shelf). On the bottom there are two of the thin-walled glad tupperware containers that come in packs of 5 at Walmart, with a larva in each. On the first shelf up we have the same arrangement again (I have a sheet of cardboard cut to fit on the wrack). On the top shelf I have two of those 1 L smart water bottles (the right shape to fit in the wine grooves) with conditioned water. That way the water I use for changes is exactly the same temperature as that of the larva containers.

I must say thank you to Carl again for "drawing the picture" - even though I had been mulling over the wine cooler idea for a while, it wasn't until I saw Carl using it so effectively that I was prompted to go ahead with it.

 

[jelkins]

Very nice write up.