Need different salamanders in the water and at different periods of life are different. Desirable to establish a broad flat body of water deeper than half the growth of salamanders and an area large enough to completely accommodate living in a terrarium amphibians. The descent into the water make a gentle with small pebbles to the salamander could easily get out of the water. Water is changed regularly, once a day or two days.

During molting salamander could not be disturbed and to offer there. Of a prolonged hunger strike.

Not recommended frequently to keep the salamander on its hands because of the poison on the skin, causing burning and irritation in contact with mucous membranes. In turn, the salamander can get burned by contact with human skin, especially if hands are smeared with a cream or lotion.

Feeding salamanders

What Do Salamanders Eat- Salamander diet consists of live insects and invertebrates: all sorts of beetles, earthworms, crickets, woodlice, slugs, worms, flour, and smooth track. It is important to choose a soft food - the larvae of beetles and remove the jaw, they may damage the amphibian. Sometimes you can give pieces of liver or heart (rich in natural substances, particularly vitamin A).

Adult salamanders are fed every two days, and once a week food before feeding to sprinkle a mixture of vitamin and calcium. You cannot overfeed. Feeding should accommodate special and stable place (feeder, a saucer, a flat stone), to which the salamander can easily be reached. She quickly learned to find food there.

Ration salamander larvae: mosquito larvae, a longtime, Cyclops, and other small invertebrates.

You cannot use tweezers for feeding to avoid injury pet. Temperature and humidity affect the appetite of salamanders. Optimum temperature at which the animals are quite voracious is 18-21 ° C. At higher or lower temperature is possible prolonged refusal to eat. Hot summer animals can eat nothing for one to two months in general. During this period, useful constant hydration cage. Fire Salamanders eat even dead day-old mice, but because the food they are attracted to the movement of the victim, you will have to give them a little mouse.

Breeding salamanders do not amount to much difficulty. Males reach sexual maturity to three years to four females. In most cases, the viviparous salamander.

In nature, breeding salamanders occurs after winter. To do this at home is necessary to organize an artificial "winter": within a month to do the temperature and light diapause cooling to 12-14 ° C. Need to create more shelters. During this period, pets are not fed. After a certain period after awakening amphibians begin to mate.