aridiar
Aquarium Advice Regular
This is probably a pretty odd one, but I was thinking that since they eat fish eggs that they would likely eat snail eggs.
To be ENTIRELY honest, I'm not possitive that they are mudpuppies. I've seen these things in the creek out on my dad's farm since I was 5, they match all the descriptions for mudpuppies (coloration, gills, diet), except for one thing....I've never seen one even as big as your usual 2-3" salamander, and mudpuppies are supposed to grow to 12-14", I thought that they probably just move down stream as they get bigger (since I've never seen a full size crayfish out of that creek either).
If anyone knows it would be great to know:
1) How quickly one would grow
2) If you know something else that it would be other than a small mudpuppy, what is it?
3) Can a mudpuppy do well in warmer water? I know they can survive sub-zero weather, and I read something about them having larger gills in warm, brakish water but does that mean that they will do well in a well oxygenated tank?[/b]
To be ENTIRELY honest, I'm not possitive that they are mudpuppies. I've seen these things in the creek out on my dad's farm since I was 5, they match all the descriptions for mudpuppies (coloration, gills, diet), except for one thing....I've never seen one even as big as your usual 2-3" salamander, and mudpuppies are supposed to grow to 12-14", I thought that they probably just move down stream as they get bigger (since I've never seen a full size crayfish out of that creek either).
If anyone knows it would be great to know:
1) How quickly one would grow
2) If you know something else that it would be other than a small mudpuppy, what is it?
3) Can a mudpuppy do well in warmer water? I know they can survive sub-zero weather, and I read something about them having larger gills in warm, brakish water but does that mean that they will do well in a well oxygenated tank?[/b]