Very adorable Dane.
They appear to be settling in very well & I'm glad all is going well. I absolutely love the picture of the little one beside your name. Keep posting your pictures they are a treat to look at.
In the forth picture from the first post there is a real small plant in front of the newt's face that looks like elodea,which causes the newts head to look enormous.
Very cool. Granulosa are one of my favorites. I actually got to see my first one in the wild this past December when I flipped a juvenile under a log that was frozen to the ground. Oddly enough, there was a juvenile California Kingsnake sharing the log with him.
Taricha are poisonous enough not to get eaten by most animals. I believe part of the garter snakes has managed to build up some immunity to the poison.
I realize that a kingsnake isn't going to eat a Taricha. I was simply amazed that I had to crack ice off the log to flip it and there were two herps underneath.
Thamnophis sirtalis is the gartersnake species that has evolved (or is continuously evolving) resistance to tetrodotoxin. After eating a Taricha, the gartersnakes are temporarily partially incapacitated while they metabolize the toxins.
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