Occasionally I lift up the bar in the #paludarium to make sure the #salamanders I raised from eggs are doing okay... I don't know how they find the fruitflies to eat when they're always buried under things, but they seem to be doing well. And they're so cute!

The pond part of the #paludarium I made looks boring now that all the tadpoles grew up into frogs and salamanders, so I got some mollies to put in there instead and they seem to be doing great... They've actually gotten fat and I haven't even put food in there yet, they're just eating the detritus left by the tadpoles 😂

OK #terrarium is almost finished. Added plants, moss and cocos soil. The latter makes the water brown so need to refresh the water today
#frogs can be transferred from today, will go slowly though
#paludarium #snakes #amphibians #pets #billionaires

slowly #paludarium is growing. Added rocks make of sterophaom with acryllic paint in silver and gold mixed with sand. Using a soldering Iron on gas to form the foam and add cravasses and Chambers for frogs to hide in.
All will be covered in plants in due time
Also water will be flowing constantly to filter debris and So on. The soil will build and also filter
#frogs #terraristik #terrarium

There are now at least five or six #tadpole - turned - #frog s in the #paludarium (no adult salamanders on land yet, though), and more every day... They're soooo tiny that I'm afraid to feed them fruitflies yet, so I've just been adding springtails and catching ants outside 😅 it's so much easier to feed them when they're tadpoles content with water plants and detritus, heh.

#paludarium update: (sorry for the blurry photos, my phone is steadily breaking and there are scratches on the camera lens so it's hard to take clear photos...) the plants and #tadpoles are doing well, some of them are getting quite large, like the bulbous head part is larger than my pinkie fingernail. The #salamander larvae aren't doing quite as well--I can't seem to keep them alive as long, and they tend to have the ends of their tails missing, so I'm worried the larger tadpoles are eating them. Still, there are three or four still in there, and one of them is pretty large (almost the same size as the largest tadpole). It's interesting watching their differing metamorphosises...the frog and toad tadpoles grow back legs first then much later grow front legs, lose their tail then lose their bulbous shape, while the salamanders grow teeny tiny front legs first, as well as the cheek gills that make them look like axolotls until they go on land. I'm excited to see how they do once they're exploring the land, though it means I'll have to switch up their diet, and finding bugs small enough for newly metamorphized froglets and sallies is difficult 😅

Found this cool looking partial bush-trunk-branch-thing in the street at the playground yesterday, so of course I'm going to boil out any pests then add it to the #paludarium 😁

The #paludarium I recently built is doing well, except I need to go back to the pond to catch more salamander larvae... There used to be a half dozen but now I can only find one, I think the much larger frog and toad tadpoles are eating them 🤬