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I have been wanting to make a newt tank for a long time now. I grew up catching newts in a pond on my parents property so there is a lot of nostalgia in getting them now as an adult and 'doing it right' as it were.

I can definitely relate, as I grew up a herp lover and probably had pretty much every reptile/amp I can get my hands on. I even belonged to the New York Herpetological Society and attended meetings at the Bronx Zoo.

Nice DIY, way above my pay grade. In terms of the layout I actually like the one you had on the first page. Is the idea to fill up the tank half way and have the rocks exposed. Got the itch now to get something with feet inside of fins, thanks :icon_mad: lol.

 

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I was going to comment that I didn't love the wood, since I felt it took away from the main rock, but you read my mind. Looks much better IMO. Is that mini pellia emersed?

 

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Hey, does the newt have the ability to climb glass.

 

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Well that does stink. I looked into it a bit and yeah, its really super restrictive. For some reason you can keep bullfrogs... which is weird because even different states in the USA consider them invasive and highly destructive.

So funny you said that, I was just at a friends in NY who lives in a development with man-made lakes and all I hear are the bullfrogs croaking. They are everywhere and I can hear them indoors with the windows closed.

 

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They can really take over an area like no other amphibian. The tadpoles grow bigger then any other tadpole and will eat other frog species tadpoles. The adults will eat other frogs, birds, rodents, newts, literally anything they can fit in their mouth and a few things they can't.

AND, they generally make terrible pets because they are so huge. You don't put them in a tank so much as a pen, I think they can jump something crazy like 10 feet.

Yes, they are huge and they've taken over. And I thought the Canadian Geese where bad.