This year my Triturus karelini are in very good condition. I feed them every other day with earth worms or maggots and they produced nearly 150 eggs so far.
I offer cut plastic bags that seem very suitable and the parents do not feed on eggs folded into the plastic. Eggs that accidentally fell down are eaten quickly.
The idea for that egg laying material I found in this forum, can not remember the thread.
As karelini is a species belonging to cristatus group many eggs die (does anybody know why nature is wasting this way?). I remove them by cutting the plastic stripes. The first larvae hatched last week. I keep some at 18°C water temperature and some at 12°C.
I keep the adults terrestrial, outside breeding season. Winter air temperatures are 2-10°C (with very short periods of 0 to minus 2°C); summer temps range between 10 and 25°C. Two of them even froze accidentally for 1 night in the shallow water dish without any damage.
They reproduced for the first time with age of 2 years, now they are 4.
Parents of my breeders come from NW Azerbaijan.
I offer cut plastic bags that seem very suitable and the parents do not feed on eggs folded into the plastic. Eggs that accidentally fell down are eaten quickly.
The idea for that egg laying material I found in this forum, can not remember the thread.
As karelini is a species belonging to cristatus group many eggs die (does anybody know why nature is wasting this way?). I remove them by cutting the plastic stripes. The first larvae hatched last week. I keep some at 18°C water temperature and some at 12°C.
I keep the adults terrestrial, outside breeding season. Winter air temperatures are 2-10°C (with very short periods of 0 to minus 2°C); summer temps range between 10 and 25°C. Two of them even froze accidentally for 1 night in the shallow water dish without any damage.
They reproduced for the first time with age of 2 years, now they are 4.
Parents of my breeders come from NW Azerbaijan.
