My hungry TIGER

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Here's with the fogger on for 20-30 seconds LOL:

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Haha laguna is so funny, he came out of his hide a little to see what I was doing infront of him when I was putting in the fogger container and stuff LOL Instantly from 60% humidity to 100% LOL I think they will like it!

[samurai]

its soo cool, will you leave it on all the time or only somtimes? how much did it cost, how big is that tank. its a really cool setup. some awesome looking plants and hides, much nicer than what i have mine in. how big is that tank

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its a 36x12x15 Hagen for $80, but I bet you could get a cheaper one made with slightly thinner glass for a salamander. I wouldn't leave that fogger on more than 5 minutes every few hours from the looks of it. I got the fogger for half price, $25 instead of $50. I got the "grass" plants at Michaels (a crafts store) for a steep $5 each, but they are nice. I'm going to get a few more for the big tank later. The cork bark pieces cost me a bit tho, about $10 a piece and I have 4 pieces. The linoleum on black sheets of paper mounted to the outer back side add a nice look, and cost me $4.50 (!!) The linoleum cost me $0.63 each with GST and the black paper backing cost me $0.95 each with GST. I have about 9 EXO-TERRA Plastic Plants PT-3000 Croton Small that cost me $3.00 each with GST. I'm not putting the croton plants in the new tank I don't think, but they do make a nice addition. A few well placed cheap silk/plastic plants can make a big difference.

Hope it gives you some ideas Samurai!

Oh the tank was roughly $200 to setup like that.

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Oh btw, that fogger almost emptied a 500 mL container full of water in about 5-10 minutes, so you have to watch the amount of time you leave it on or you can burn out the foggers motor, not a cheap thing to do (it's wrecked if you do and that's $50 down the drain)

I think it's safest to leave it on for about 2-3 minutes, that adds tons of moisture to the terrarium and doesn't get close to draining the water much. But after 2-3 minutes theres about 4-5" of fog in the tank!! hahahaa

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do you use the fogger for any of your geckos, i dont know anything about them if they need high humidity or anything. but it seems to put a sure lot of water into the air my guy would love a setup like that i think i need to remodel his home. hed be pretty jealous if he got a glimpse of that. good work

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LOL THX, My leopard geckos and Tokays do not need the humidity, but my Chinese Cave Geckos will, so I am going to setup a fogger container in their tank also and just swap the fogger between tanks as needed. (takes 2 seconds )

If you bought the tank, setup 2 cork bark pieces and the forrest bedding with a water dish for the Tiger to soak in you could probably do it for about $120-$130, then buy stuff as you can. The tank is great for 1 Tiger. Then hunt for deals like I did with the fogger and plants

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ya when i move out in like 2 years ill expand my collection a lot, so i may as well start searching for deals now by then ill have the materials fora few nice setups. i just measeard my tiger hes 17.5cm so whatever that is in inches. id like to get a mate and try to breed them i havent really heard of anyone doing this i dont know how many people have them.

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Thats about 7". Mine are around 20cm (8") and 27/28cm (11") LOL so I need the tank space and multiple hides They are not a very common pet at all from what I know, and figuring out if you have M/F is even tougher (I'm still not 100% sure on mine LOL might check with a vet, maybe they could tell??)

Like I said, Laguna is a streroidal monster IMO!!

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I havent really researched them at all maybe ill do that soon try to figure otu if i have a m/f maybe i could get a breeding pair going, then trade off some babies for geckos, talk about planning ahead eh i dont even know if they will breed in captivity.

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I don't think I have ever read anyone being able to, but you need to lower temps of tanks for sure and simulating rains would be important too (now theres a challenge!!)

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hahaha ya, a coule years ago i bred my blue gouramis (fish) and they breed after the rainy season i was reading some people go as far as playing those thunderstorm tapes to simulate the rainyseason i thought that was going a little far, im sure i would have to cool the salamanders, i asume they breed in the sprink like frogs ????

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LOL I hope my spelling is decent, just went to the local pool hall and had lots o chicken winds & beer haha man I think I have hit delete already 20 times just writing this small paragraph!! LOL

Well it is a major undertaking breed Tigers. You will need several tank setups, none of which will be cheap to setup properly to breed/get them breeding.

If you look here:
http://www.livingunderworld.org/caud...um/index.shtml
(I hope the moderators do not mind, but its better than copying the whole thing and infringing copyrights in my mind)
You can see that setting up tanks for breeding adults, Larva, Subadults and adults is no light undertaking.

March to June was breeding season according to this page, but it may vary if you read furthur. This site gives you a good idea of how much work breeding can be, but the rewards are awesome, I mean breeding my Tigers would rule!! but would take a lot of effort and digilance plus different tank setups to provide the right conditions.

I am thinking of looking at it, but there are several reasons why I am not going to try. PM me if you want to know samurai. BTW where are you located?? (where do you live LOL I shouldn't post when beer is in me haha )

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Your lucky to have beer in you, Nothing like starting a major assignment at 230 in the morning the night before its due, its gonna be a long night. Im in ontario quite a ways from you. looks like breeding my salamander is out of the question for a while...

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haha man I thought I was the only one up at this time half corked

like I said its quite the undertaking. I.E. why I think not too many people would ever really try.