How to Breed Tiger Salamanders

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"Now in warmer climates, tiger salamanders will breed generally throughout the year. In captivity, sometimes you can stimulate their breeding by cooling them down for a couple of months. You can do this by just moving their enclosure into a cooler room, a room that stays around sixty, sixty-five degrees. Don't feed them for a while. Let them shut down for a little while. Let them go into kind of an estivation state where they'll sleep for a little while and not be active. And then, you know, after a month or so, gradually bring up the temperatures. This might stimulate the salamanders. Also in their natural environment what stimulates them a lot is rain. So some people will create a rain chamber using different pumps and misters to make sure it's a constant flow of waters. Or some breeders, what they do in warmer climates is actually create outdoor pens to breed these salamanders. You need a fairly large body of water and some debris on the bottom which helps the spermatophore cling to which the salamander male will drop on a leaf. The female will follow behind him and pick up the spermatophore through her cloaca. The spermatophore will of course go inside the female and fertilize her eggs. Then she will attach her eggs when she lays them to some debris in the pond. You can put sticks in there. You know, any type of debris that she can attach her eggs to. "