A Video Of Cricket

Here's an actual factual video of Cricket. He's changed a lot since I first got him. This video should be off limits to Nikki and Linz because it will probably gross them out, but they can watch it if they dare.

In case you haven't seen these pictures, here's what Cricket looked like when I rescued him from the bait shop at the beginning of August:

And here's a video of what he looks like now:

Watch at your own risk. You could easily be grossed out.

Here's Cricket Now

 

This is what Cricket looks like now. You can read more about him here and here.

An Update on Cricket

This is a picture of my salamander Cricket when I first got him. He had a big tail fin and he was all grayish-brown colored.




This is a picture of him from a few days ago. If you look closely you can see that he has spots all over his tail and his tail fin is smaller. He is also starting to climb out of the water onto his rocks.


See? This is the cutest picture I have of him. This picture is also from a few days ago.



This picture is from about 30-45 minutes ago. This is the first time that I've seen Cricket with his gills out of the water. He climbed out all by himself. He's turning into a Tiger Salamander!

Salamanders & Other Stuff

Besides Cricket, we have another salamander that we got from Daddy's work. It is a grown Tiger Salamander which looks like this:


(This is not an actual picture of our salamander.)

We named it Marble.

Cricket is turning into an adult Tiger salamander, so he's not an Axolotl. I started an earthworm farm since he and Marble both eat earthworms and the ones from the store cost about $3.50 for two dozen! I think it is working because I saw a baby earthworm today. It was about 1/2 an inch long. I am keeping my earthworms in my snail habitat. I got a new container for my snails. It is about twice as big as the other one and it has a mesh lid. It had been used for a hermit crab and I got it at a garage sale for $3.00. It's about the size of a ten gallon aquarium.

I am also breeding snails. I think I have 11, but three aren't old enough to breed and I'm going to let one of the older ones go. 4 of my snails have laid eggs! I'll post about it when they hatch, which should be in 1-1 1/2 weeks.

I Got A Salamander!

I got a salamander on Wednesday! I rescued him actually, because we got it from the bait shop where it would have been used for fish bait. I named him Cricket. The lady at the bait shop said that he would turn into a full grown air-breathing salamander. I'm not sure what kind he is, but I think it's called an Axolotl, which will only lose its gills if I give it really low water. It might be a tiger salamander larvae, though. I hope he stays like he is. This is a picture of his tank.

I've added a piece of pipe to his tank since I took this picture.

He is supposed to eat all kinds of bugs, but I tried to feed him roly-polys and he spits them out. So now I'm feeding him big long earthworms. He ate 1 1/2 of them yesterday! That seems to be all he can handle because I put another half of one in his tank and he didn't eat it.

If any of y'all can tell me if he is an Axolotl or a Tiger Salamander Larvae (and even if you don't know what he is!), please leave a comment!