Swantje and Sven's Herps

from left to right: Moritz, Max, Minnie, and Mickey

Our various aqua-terraria house nine newts, two toads, three frogs, and lots of plants. We believe to have

two California newts (Taricha torosa)
two Chinese fire-bellied newts (Cynops orientalis)
two red-spotted newts (Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens)
one other Chinese newt (Paramesotriton caudopunctatus)
two Oriental fire-bellied toads (Bombina orientalis)
one Chinese red-bellied newt (Paramesotriton hongkongiensis) (RIP)
one rice paddy frog (Occidozyga lima)
two dwarf clawed frogs (Hymenochirus boettgeri)
one paddletail newt (Pachytriton labiatus)
one Japanese fire-bellied newt (Cynops pyrroghaster)

We have also had a golden mystery snail for more than a year, until it died in December. It just stopped moving and didn't come out of its shell any more. Mystery snails can reach the size of a tennis ball, but ours hasn't even reached the size of a ping pong ball. It used to eat duckweed and floating fern as well as frozen blood worms and algae. Since we only had one such snail, it wasn't able to reproduce. This is different from other snails. We also had some unwanted smaller snails for quite a while that reproduced rather quickly and that we could not seem to get rid of until they finally disappeared.

admire our green-spotted newt (rare variety)

Swantje has been featured in one of Pittsburgh's local newspapers, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, for a workshop she gave about newts at a meeting of the Pittsburgh Herpetological Society.

If you want to find out more about newts, you can

visit other herp sites
read books and magazines
chat with others on Tapaboy's Newt Mud (Swantje is "swan")
read Newtsweek
contact us
look at my basic caresheet

Here are some more photos of our herps that we have not used already on the pages above:

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swan@newts.org / Last update: July 30, 1998