It's not scally so i guess its a salamander. it is blue with stripes down its spine. what do i do with it? how do i care for it? what type of home is best for it? will it live? food? bedding? HELP?!?!?!?!?!
2006-07-25 02:45:06 · 10 answers · asked by Curly 3 in Pets ➔ Reptiles
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2006-07-25 02:49:51 · answer #1 · answered by Milly (UK) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you found it, please release it. Wild caught animals really do not make good pets- they go through a lot of stress and rarely thrive again.
If you inhereted it, the first step is to figure out what it really is. You don't so much need the exact species as you do the general category. If it is an aquatic salamander it needs one type of care. if it is a terrestrial salamander or a burrowing salamander, it needs another.
You can provide a decent temporary home for any kind in a tub with some clean soil in it (potting soil or compost with no chemicals). Dampen until you can make a sort of dirt ball that holds together, but does not drip a lot.
Cover the soil with leaves, bark, moss, etc. and moisten all of that.
Food is usually worms and small insects. Most pet shops (and some bait shops) will have a good selection.
Keep the container at a comfortable room temp and do not worry too much about lighting at this point.
Sink some sort of bowl into the soil to act as a pool. Make it as 'ground level' as you can and make sure the salamander can easily get in and out of it.
This set-up works OK for land and burrowing salamanders, but if it is a more aquatic species, it will prefer basically a shallow fishtank with places to climb out.
2006-07-25 11:42:18 · answer #2 · answered by Madkins007 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, your description is vague, but if it is a salamander, you need to provide it with a large water bowl, about 3" deep, use distilled water (you can let tap water sit in a jug for 24 hours and you can use it). I would use a soft bedding, coconut shavings work really well. I would also provide fake foilage and a hide space. Also, a bubbling stone is not a bad idea. Feed him crickets and wax worms. Wax worms are easier to deal with than crickets- not as messy, and you can keep them in the fridge. Salamanders eat a lot. You can also provide a flourescent light, but keep the wattage low- you don't want him to dry out.
2006-07-25 10:54:58 · answer #3 · answered by wendi_just_me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
okay . . . I used to have two salamanders. they were black and grey looking with some spots on their backs. they were both male and well we also found them in the parking lot at work one day and took them home. we got them some rocks and dirt and also some fake leaves for them to hide in. We also put water in there and well eventually after about a year or two they died from my mom's habit of keeping our trailier so cold kinda like a meet locker or something in the summer We should have got some heat lamps for them but it was amazing how long they did last in there with my mom's cruel invironment that she set with the A/C lol. but they were awsome pets but now I have an iguana and he's awsome it's easy to take care of them after you get the hang of it. I'm not sure what the name it of what you have but I would look it up on the internet maybe look up "different types of salamanders", or go to ask.com and find your answer there! I hope that this helped ya out some what!
2006-07-26 11:35:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm guessing you have a blue striped skink... five lined skink... etc... that doesn't sound like any salamander i've seen or heard of... salamanders are wet... is the creature actually wet?
if it's a lizard it needs a dry climate with a water bowl and some regular heat source... a lamp or heating pad... to keep it's temp at about 70 to 80 degrees. they will eat crickets and need hiding spots in the cage...
2006-07-25 23:56:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can go to www.salamanderhelp\\.net this site is cool and tells what you need to know. Me and my brothers use to catch them all the time the home it need is damp and muddy you might need to get some water from where you found it for the best i dont think tap water is good for them. Put it in a aquarium and put water about the hight of a dime them put rocks and put mud or you can put dirt in the water which will turn into mud and get logs and leaves and stuff like that. To feed it you might need some little things like flys ,crickets,grasshoppers and you might want to try some fish food It might like it!!!
Hope i could help, Britney
2006-07-25 16:06:35 · answer #6 · answered by Britney B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
listen if you can't identify the animal you shouldn't be keeping it. Especially the fact that you're going on the fact that its not SCALY. Not all reptiles are "scaly". Some are very smooth,almost slick, some are beaded, some are rough. So obviously you don't know what you are doing, save yourself form killing an animal, let it go WHERE YOU FOUND IT.
2006-07-28 22:05:12 · answer #7 · answered by cc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put it back where you found it and stop taking animals from the wild when you don't know how to care for them.
2006-07-25 18:56:38 · answer #8 · answered by Boober Fraggle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they like to bury themselves in mud and live under damp logs and rocks. you'd have to keep a very damn and muddy environment for them. I think they eat insects and worms and stuff, but I'm not completely sure.
2006-07-25 09:51:31 · answer #9 · answered by heterophobicgirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you find out outside?
LET IT GO.
2006-07-25 11:15:46 · answer #10 · answered by pateo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋