Noto setup

JessKB

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Hey guys, Just wanted to drop in and share my newly set up noto tank.

I took advantage of some sales in my area. Petco was doing it's 1 dollar a gallon sale, so I scooped up a 20long and a lid for it. I also got a great deal on plants at my local mom and pops place, along with the black sand I always buy from there, and a sponge filter. There's a turtle dock in the very middle. The plants are water sprite, water wisteria, anubias nana, and elodea.

There is a total of four notos in there. The newt in the picture is a juvenile that morphed a few weeks ago and seemingly has no intention of leaving the water. I'm quite sure that the population he is from doesn't have an eft stage.

Anyways, thanks for viewing. Any comments/advice are appreciated.
 

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Great setup! And your notos seem to be nvl's, the central new subspecies, which sometimes skip the eft stage. I have kept and bred this species. I have found southern forms are more likely to stay aquatic and northern forms often have eft stages but even with the northern forms some stayed aquatic. Its a very interesting species to study! And they are great pets :)
 
Thanks again guys. AJ, I collected these guys myself, and although there were tons and tons of notos in the many ponds in the immediate area, we didn't find any terrestrial efts, so I think you're right in them being nvls (although I hear that Michigan notos are all hybrids so nobody knows for sure what they are.) . They Do make great pets!
 
beautiful, thanks for listing the plant names as well.
 
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