Originally Posted by
paul16v
I like them Fiddy Ive always wanted one of these since i was a kid & used to keep snakes. I did read that feeding them thyroid extract will make them mature quicker so they can live out of water.
Spot on ginge, they are missing the thyroid that turns them into salamanders, hence why they stay how they do, you can inject it to change them apparently, and it can happen naturally if they stay of the water enough and the gills close up, but its very rare for it to happen, shortens there life span, and stresses them out.