How to Care for Tiger Salamander Eggs

Video Transcript

"Now once the female has deposited the eggs, you are going to want to take the eggs and put them into another separate holding tank or another small enclosure. If she's laid them in the outdoor pond, if you have an outdoor set up, just very gently clip the branch that the eggs are on. You're not going to want to try and pull the eggs off the branch. You can disrupt or even kill some of the embryos by doing that. So very carefully snip the branch, put it in a ten gallon tank (that's what I've used successfully). You don't need anything, any substraight in the bottom. You don't need any filtering devices yet. Just use dechlorinated water. Keep the temperature...usually I just keep the temperature about room temperature. But you don't want it getting bellow sixty-five degrees or higher than about seventy-five degrees. Anything cooler than that could damage the embryos. Anything hotter than that will definitely damage the embryos. Now, hatching depends on water temperatures, so it varies a lot. Some will hatch out as quickly as two to three weeks. Some might take a little bit more to develop and completely hatch."