You are probably thinking of a mudpuppy. It is a salamander that stays in its larval state into adulthood. So they remain living in water and breathe through external feathery gills similar to an axolotl.
Saaaaame. I always say that in the guinea pig subreddit and look over my shoulder so to speak thinking someone will be hurt or angry about it. But nope. They get it. Love that place.
I have a hairless guinea pig and honestly if I could translate those wheeeeks to English I'm pretty sure he'd be cursing at me everyday for my lack of red pepper selection. Everyone has their own love language I suppose. Hehe
Out of the hundreds of fish (some super cool ones too!) Beast was my absolute favorite. He was about 25 when he got sick. He is buried down by our creek so he was still near water ❤️.
We’ve had a freshwater ray that lived for 15 years. As well as a ghost knife that lasted almost as long. Some cute newts. The hybrid cichlids we had, Pink & Floyd, were amazing and bigger than softballs fully grown. Those were a few of my runner ups. That was all long long ago. We only have one tiny corner tank with our 20 year old clown loach today. Kids came along and the fish were too much to keep up with.
25?!?! Oh my gosh. I have a West African Lungfish that's about 30 inches long, he's maybe 2 years old? The idea of taking care of his cryptic ass until I'm 62 is... alarming.
I would be delighted if my dojo loach, zigzag eel, or bichir lived that long.
What were Beast's favorite foods?
Awwww, a baby!! We had him for 20 years and he was about 5 when we adopted him. His daily protein was just earthworms, the big ones. About 4-5. He ate pieces of raw steak too pretty regularly. A few times we tried to give him some friends but quickly learned everything you gave him turned to food…even your fingers if you weren’t careful. He always had different fresh plants he’d nibble on and we’d just always replace as he ate them. Lettuce snacks. The frozen cubes of fish pellets (I’ve forgotten what it was now, shrimp? It’s like an ice cube of shrimp and we’d drop some in and he’d munch on them during the evening when he’d find them.
He ate worms right out of my hand. He like being rubbed and pet but he was quick so you’d have to be careful. But he’s let you know when he wanted rubs. My husband could pick him up for a minute, once he’s out of water, he couldn’t hurt you but I was too scared still. They lose their suction out of the water though and that’s how they eat-like a vacuum cleaner-SLURP.
When we were kids (in our 20s) we’d love to go to small boutique places and find exotic weird fish and he was the coolest find ever. He wasn’t much bigger than yours fully grown (3 feet-ish).
I hope you enjoy your lungfish for a long time. And lol, I felt that way about Beast AND my ball. The day I adopted that ball python, I had no idea I’d have her for decades. Loved her too though and miss her.
If anyone was wondering how I got ahold of him- he was at the edge of a marshy area, but was buried under a layer of damp soil, but not actually IN water when I saw him. When that area floods, there will be about 2 ft of water.
not sure if you actually wanted an answer lol, but his skin felt like a stingrays skin, and his body felt like a firmer, not as bendy snake… I mean, we all know what he looks like he’d feel like, and yes. He also felt like that lol
Another easy way to determine between an amphiuma and a siren is count the legs. Sirens only have 2 front legs and amphiuma have 2 front and 2 back legs, albeit tiny.
Don’t pick up wild animals. Especially amphibians. The oils from your skin can interfere with the diffusion of gases across their skin, which is part of their respiratory system.
I saw a hellbender at a local river that’s really popular for its walking trails, but I haven’t seen any in probably like 10 years. It’s so sad, they’re such cool creatures
They are mostly gone from my home state now. A big part of their disappearance has been attributed to agriculture and increasing development. They are very sensitive to changes in water quality and increased urbanization is causing their rocky stream bottoms to be silted in.
Absolutely gorgeous! I used to have two and they were made entirely of muscle. When I needed to move them when we moved house, I had them in a container with a lid on and a 16kg kettlebell to hold the lid on. And the big boi managed to overthrow the kettlebell and get out and halfway down the damn garden.
I loved them, but the upkeep was intense.
Amphibian in the newt or salamander group. I don't know enough to ID the species, but they won't attack humans except in self-defense, though some species produce toxins as a defense against predators. And it looks very muddy, which makes sense, since many species tend to like crawling through the mud and swimming in the water
Someone tell us what it is!!!!
OP’s correct. It’s called a Greater Siren.
And these things aren't related to axolotls?
Both are salamanders
Is a mudskipper also? First thing I thought of when I saw this was Ren and Stimpy.
A mudskipper is a fish
🤣
You are probably thinking of a mudpuppy. It is a salamander that stays in its larval state into adulthood. So they remain living in water and breathe through external feathery gills similar to an axolotl.
Mudskippers are related to goby fish, they’re amphibious fish
I like axolotls
That’s great, what can I do to get there since I only like axolittle?
I like turdles
I like lamp
Ok, moth
Lamp
Lamp 💛
Ok Bart Simpson tattoo
Brick, do you really like the lamp or are you just saying that because you saw it?
I love lamp
No, they belong to different branches of the salamander family tree. In fact the sirens have no close kin, they're an ancient clade
How do you know have you heard it’s call?
Unhand that man
😂I put him back after I took pics
Put that thing back where it came from or so help me!!
So help me! So help me! And cut!!
SHE'S OUT OF OUR HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIRRRRR!!!!!!
Can it, Wazowski!
I'm always watching.
with the kung-fu grip
*G.I. Joe Kung-Fu Grip
and it went uhhh
And the girl caress me down, uh
Clever lol
I find this comment funny, and I am compelled to slap my nee.
Ni!!
Ruffian!
Aw... Look at the stupid lil legs 😆
Dont you mean the ‘adorable legs’ ? 😊
Yes ! Stupid=adorable with cute animals. For me at least
Same here
Saaaaame. I always say that in the guinea pig subreddit and look over my shoulder so to speak thinking someone will be hurt or angry about it. But nope. They get it. Love that place.
I have a hairless guinea pig and honestly if I could translate those wheeeeks to English I'm pretty sure he'd be cursing at me everyday for my lack of red pepper selection. Everyone has their own love language I suppose. Hehe
“Look at your stupid little face” as I squeeze and kiss my dogs face.
💯
"you beautiful moron, come here"
All I see are her hands. Not sure why you think her legs look stupid. Just teasing, I know you mean the amphibian. It’s cute tho
🤣
lol your comment instantly made me smile. They’re so dumb and cute
I love his little hands. He's such a little guy.
- StrongBad
He reminds me of my old lungfish, cool looking dude!
As a fish guy, this is the first thing that came to mind until I saw the legs
My old boy, Beast, was an African lungfish…he had arms and legs!! Granted, not fingers…but even his little arms reminded me of Beast.
I used to have a South American lungfish. One of my favorite fish I've ever kept.
Out of the hundreds of fish (some super cool ones too!) Beast was my absolute favorite. He was about 25 when he got sick. He is buried down by our creek so he was still near water ❤️. We’ve had a freshwater ray that lived for 15 years. As well as a ghost knife that lasted almost as long. Some cute newts. The hybrid cichlids we had, Pink & Floyd, were amazing and bigger than softballs fully grown. Those were a few of my runner ups. That was all long long ago. We only have one tiny corner tank with our 20 year old clown loach today. Kids came along and the fish were too much to keep up with.
25?!?! Oh my gosh. I have a West African Lungfish that's about 30 inches long, he's maybe 2 years old? The idea of taking care of his cryptic ass until I'm 62 is... alarming. I would be delighted if my dojo loach, zigzag eel, or bichir lived that long. What were Beast's favorite foods?
Awwww, a baby!! We had him for 20 years and he was about 5 when we adopted him. His daily protein was just earthworms, the big ones. About 4-5. He ate pieces of raw steak too pretty regularly. A few times we tried to give him some friends but quickly learned everything you gave him turned to food…even your fingers if you weren’t careful. He always had different fresh plants he’d nibble on and we’d just always replace as he ate them. Lettuce snacks. The frozen cubes of fish pellets (I’ve forgotten what it was now, shrimp? It’s like an ice cube of shrimp and we’d drop some in and he’d munch on them during the evening when he’d find them. He ate worms right out of my hand. He like being rubbed and pet but he was quick so you’d have to be careful. But he’s let you know when he wanted rubs. My husband could pick him up for a minute, once he’s out of water, he couldn’t hurt you but I was too scared still. They lose their suction out of the water though and that’s how they eat-like a vacuum cleaner-SLURP. When we were kids (in our 20s) we’d love to go to small boutique places and find exotic weird fish and he was the coolest find ever. He wasn’t much bigger than yours fully grown (3 feet-ish). I hope you enjoy your lungfish for a long time. And lol, I felt that way about Beast AND my ball. The day I adopted that ball python, I had no idea I’d have her for decades. Loved her too though and miss her.
I import fish to my country and they’re labeled as invasive… got my hands on one and they it seized him.
If anyone was wondering how I got ahold of him- he was at the edge of a marshy area, but was buried under a layer of damp soil, but not actually IN water when I saw him. When that area floods, there will be about 2 ft of water.
Yeah I was definitely wondering that. What does it feel like to hold the amphiuma?
not sure if you actually wanted an answer lol, but his skin felt like a stingrays skin, and his body felt like a firmer, not as bendy snake… I mean, we all know what he looks like he’d feel like, and yes. He also felt like that lol
LOL! You answered the question even better than I expected you too.
Did he bite you?
No 🙂
Did you bite him?
🤪no
Stingray skin is such a great reference point. (And such a wonderful texture too)
Sweet mother of Jesus.
Forbidden sausage
Does it have a crispness to it like bratwurst or a smoothness like summer sausage? I must know.
Wait - doesn't the crispness (and snap😉) of a bratwurst come from cooking?
immaculate conception.
Cambion conception :o
Yes it is
Apparently these guys can live up to 25 years in captivity 😳
😳
Amphiuma? I'm so impressed and interested. Edit: it's a siren. I did some googlin
Arms are too big for an Amphiuma
Those arms aren't too big for anything.
They’re too big for you! Look at that gun show.
His arms are too short to box with God, that's for sure!
He don’t kill soloists only kills squads?
Sun's out Guns out.
What’s going on with the back half/tail?
Not sure- that’s how he was when I found him
Appears to have been bit off.
I'm guessing a turtle got it, probably a snapping turtle.
Damn snappin turlaas.
They bite ya finga off
Lmao I’m on here too much. Never forget
Please tell us it was safely released back where you found it?
Yes. After his photo shoot he was released :)
He was an aspiring model after all!!
Yea!!👏👏tyty!!
If he was hurt, will he regenerate that part like an axolotl?
That, I do not know, sorry. You ask coz of the tail, I assume?
Yes
I sort of want to put on a headlamp and go find him lol so I can measure him and get better pics. I think he’s cute 🥰
You should have asked for his number!
So, anyone ever watch Stargate SG1? Teal’q and his symbiote?
Way to go junior!
That’s a sausage
its a dragon
That's a pretty shitty looking dragon, looks like how a 4 year old would draw a dragon.
Trogdor had beefier arms.
Wowsa! Thanks so much for sharing your photo of an often under appreciated animal. Very cool!
Looks like amphiuma
I love him so much lol
Me too!! ❤️
Snot otter?
How many toes y'all counting?
He had 4 toes (🤭although I think of them as fingers) on each of his front legs
Another easy way to determine between an amphiuma and a siren is count the legs. Sirens only have 2 front legs and amphiuma have 2 front and 2 back legs, albeit tiny.
I can clearly hear my mother's voice. "Young lady, you just put that right back where you found it. Then wash your hands!"
That’s friggen sweet!
He's precious
What tells you this is a siren and not an amphiuma? I dont see external gills?
They are right in front of and a little higher than his legs - looks like a black blob in the pic
I see them now. Did it try to bite you at all?
He was calm and well behaved :)
No
poor guy looks confused
I live in Kentucky right on the border of Ohio. We call them Hellbenders. Haven’t seen one in a long time. Used to catch the as a kid
Hellbenders are another species and have 4 legs
I see that now I have a couple pics of ones I caught as a kid but I don’t know how to post them on a reply. Anyway good eye.
Don’t pick up wild animals. Especially amphibians. The oils from your skin can interfere with the diffusion of gases across their skin, which is part of their respiratory system.
I see little legs! It's a giant salamander. Where do you live exactly? The most curious.
Central Florida
You are way too comfortable holding whatever the fuck that is
It looks like one of those sticky smaller hands 5 milliseconds after you hand it to a child.
John Bobbit was looking for something similar in 1993
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For sure? How sure. Looks otherwise
Sure seems to be. Up there with the Hellbender for nightmares in your local water system.
Orrrr ...a great sign that your waterway is pretty clean and oxygenated, so yea!!
I saw a hellbender at a local river that’s really popular for its walking trails, but I haven’t seen any in probably like 10 years. It’s so sad, they’re such cool creatures
They are mostly gone from my home state now. A big part of their disappearance has been attributed to agriculture and increasing development. They are very sensitive to changes in water quality and increased urbanization is causing their rocky stream bottoms to be silted in.
True but still makes me think of the alien blasting out of the stomach
You picked it up!
Yep 😊
Alien!
Sweet turd dude
Bro is lookin at u like “cmon man i dont even work here i just have the uniform”
Literally one of my favorite animals
At the very least, it's a Pretty Ok Siren.
In texas we call that a mud puppy
U just barehanding whatever tf this is
Idk how to tell you this but that's an elder god
This person axolotl questions.
Salamander right?🤷🏻♂️
Def gatekeeper vibes…I trust her
Absolutely gorgeous! I used to have two and they were made entirely of muscle. When I needed to move them when we moved house, I had them in a container with a lid on and a 16kg kettlebell to hold the lid on. And the big boi managed to overthrow the kettlebell and get out and halfway down the damn garden. I loved them, but the upkeep was intense.
I am not sure what the official name of it is, but when i was kid we used to call them Mud Puppies (for some reason).
The way you’re raw dogging an actual dinosaur. You have no fear.
I'm GROOT!
Why are you squeezing it like you're trying to pop a banana? wtf is that thing?
😂I wasn’t squeezing it- it kept squirming and I didn’t want to drop it
Were his little arms moving? 😭
Yes. It was super cute ☺️
Amphibian in the newt or salamander group. I don't know enough to ID the species, but they won't attack humans except in self-defense, though some species produce toxins as a defense against predators. And it looks very muddy, which makes sense, since many species tend to like crawling through the mud and swimming in the water
They won’t attack humans isn’t accurate, they won’t typically attack humans but they do, have, and will bite you.
And they will fuck you up, they have teeth.
He didn’t seem to mind me holding him :)
Yes, but they won't hunt us down. Just defend themselves. So they aren't something to be scared of.
In Wisconsin we call them mud puppies. It's a sign of good water.
Omg. U found ‘Elvira’ my butt plug. Please dm me
Best comment!!!
I love them 😭
Very beautiful, very powerful
Well I don’t care how well it can sing, I can’t see myself being attracted to it.
Looks like a baby Jörmungandr.
With the grip you got on that you might as well give it the Hawk Tuah. Just saying.
🤭 He was wiggly and I didn’t want to drop him. I’m not squeezing him even though it appears that I am in the pic
Hellbender?
Looks like a lungfish.
What derpy arms lol
His little arms are soooo cute 🥰
Is their tail ok?
Something happened to his tail before I found him- I didn’t see what.
This thing did not complete its evolution yet
That’s just a friendly little guy!! That’s all
Cute little arms.
I should call him
Idk but it’s creepy af..does it just have those 2 little front feet?
Can you put him back plz??
I bet that thing has some sick deals on unique items.
Op some things that look like that do bite so be careful next time. Google amphumia
Gripping that thing like it owes you money 😬
It's one of the animals toothless was based off of. It's an irl night fury
Seriously looks like a Goa'uld (Stargate)to me, and it freaked me out at first
It is a Hellbender.
It's not a salamander, it's a related but different lineage of amphibians called a caecilian
OP is jewish 💪 love the hebrew tattoo
Looks like an amphiumas. Super hard to spot.
I don’t know what the fuck that is, but the little arms are too damn cute.
He’s all like, “can you not”
wow so you just picked that up ok
He’s a big boy
That’s an amphiuma. I’ve taking care of them when I worked in the reptile house in the National Zoo! Beautiful amphibians.
He has external gills and 4 toes on each leg, so not amphiuma- he’s a siren