Terrestrial Caecilians

[schisto]

Anybody into land dwelling caecilians?

 

[Gymnophiona]

AW: Terrestrial Caecilians

Hi,

I´m keeping terrestrial caecilians (Geotrypetes seraphini) for a year now. Nice animals

What do you want to know over these animals?

Greeting from Germany
Philip

 

[Vazah]

where I can get any

Vaz

 

[Gymnophiona]

AW: Terrestrial Caecilians

You got a PM

 

[tony]

Hi have you any pictures of them and there setup thanks.

 

[Gymnophiona]

AW: Terrestrial Caecilians

Yes, but they aren´t very good... I´ll take better ones when I´ll clean the tank in 2 weeks

some pictures are here:
http://www.caudata.org/forum/picture.php?albumid=679&pictureid=6404
http://www.caudata.org/forum/picture.php?albumid=679&pictureid=6405

http://www.caudata.org/forum/picture.php?albumid=679&pictureid=6406

 

[spiro666]

Terrestrial Caecilian

Hi Hi Hi

ive had some of these guys before and they are interesting. We (science) knows almost nothing about them but that there are 100's of species that vary in size, color, habitats? makes them more appealling i think

i dont have pictures but my setups were long, wide and short. nothing in them but peat moss, mixed with some more dense chippings, rocks that were positioned to make cave-like dwellings possible. The experience i got from them most was learning different type of ground cover. java moss, baby tears, Suzi Wong, Selaginella kraussiana, riccia and even lawn grass. The nice part of the ground cover was how it kept them from tracking dirt along the sides of the tank and helps absorb their outputs. the downside is you need lights and timers. . i hope this helps a little bit.

also watch their bites. it only happened once but it was definately sharp.

 

[Gymnophiona]

AW: Terrestrial Caecilians

Thank you for the hints, I´ll try to optimize in the next time.

 

[Ra]

I wasn't even aware these existed as a terrestrial aniamal. I'm indeed very very interested in these strange creatures as well.

 

[CaveDweller]

I didn't know these were terrestrial either!! @.@ They are soo cool!! I am soo happy this section came up! Now I have something else to distract me from my school work^.~ hee hee hee