Four Degrees and a Plastic Box: Brumation Substrate for Salamanders
Brumation boxes fail wet more often than dry. How to mix moss to the right moisture, stop lid condensation dripping, and use week-four weigh-ins to catch loss.
Salamanders and Newts: Damp Substrate Without the Swamp
A spotted salamander under a log in April sits on soil at roughly 70 percent relative humidity, cool, and never soaked. Copy that and the animal settles within a day. Copy the misted-glass look of a dart frog tank and you get a caudate standing in wet litter, which is where skin problems begin. Sala…
