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Post by Killian on Sept 29, 2005 2:33:24 GMT
Where do your amphibians hibernate outside? do you provide anything special? how many species hibernate underwater?
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BenJT
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Post by BenJT on Sept 29, 2005 20:23:35 GMT
Well I don't keep any of my amphibians in a proper outdoor enclosure but rather in an out door shed with out heating, I never let the temperature fall below 3Âșcelcius, all of them go through their cooling period fully active and aquatic. I can start spring whenever I want with the heaters and timers.
My basement, which is filled with scraps of rotting wet cardboard is a hot spot for wild hibernating toads and newts, and to a lesser degree frogs. During the Spring the basement becomes a stop over place for traveling animals; in the summer a cool, moist, insect infested haven for large newts and toads; and in the fall it becomes a hunting ground for new morphs. If I ever were to make an outdoor enclosure, which I may do some day (but that's looking way into the future and making too many assumptions to be a gaurantee), I would base the hibernaculum on my basement. Also the underside of my pond liner, particularly beneath one stream is a wild newt hibernation site. In terms of wild animals hibernating under water, one Marsh frog hibernated in the leafy debree of my pond for one year and then left.
I know this is unamphibian related, but the Large Grass Snake which I have shown pictures of on this forum spent the winter coiled around a UV clarifyer for one of our ponds.
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