SALAMANDRA SALAMANDRA GIGLIOLII - CALABRIAN FIRE SALAMANDER

Another one of my favourite due to the deep orange colour and large thickset bodies.

These are notoriously difficult to keep inside a building and develop skin problems as do the S.s.bernardezi group.

Oustide is the only way to keep this though I would be tempted to do an experiment with an electric fan on them indoors?!

Note on the underside of this young gigliolii how patches of the black colour are discolouring and these would eventually turn yellow while more discolouring would appear and follow suit.

The older they get the more orange takes over from the black and some old specimens that have managed to avoid predation can be completely orang though some can retain a black spot on the back of the head.

 

Salamandra salamandra gigliolii

Well here is something I previously owned...

The Italian Fire Salamander from Calabria in Southern Italy

Salamandra salamandra gigliolii and better to keep these outside if you are fortunate enough to find any... inside you would need a fan and some fresh outside air being blown and.

A bit fussy about how they are kept and can acquire skin conditions that if their housings are not remedied they will eventually die.

If you see black marks appear inside the Orange colouring then place them in open container outside but not in sunlight in summer obviously, somewhere very shaded.

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