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03-11-2006, 07:19 PM
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Well my daughter and I caught a small hellbender in our front yard yes it is water, we used a minnow trap and a chunk of fish, what a surpise to get one . It is a very small, one about 8 inches long just a baby ! now to set a tank up while it lives in our floating bait bucket . Well here is its picture 
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03-11-2006, 08:57 PM
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no pic...
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03-11-2006, 09:01 PM
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pic?
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03-11-2006, 09:06 PM
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Hello,
Great find! Thanks for sharing.
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03-11-2006, 11:23 PM
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awesome creek critter, it's even better seeing it the second time lol. 
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03-12-2006, 05:33 AM
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Awesome amphibian, but I'm afraid what you've got there is a mudpuppy ( Necturus maculosus), not a hellbender. They're awesome anyway though, but they can't breathe outside of water, which is why they have those external gills.
mudpuppies:
http://www.interone.jp/~endless/Phot...r/Mudpuppy.jpg
hellbender:
http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~herpsgh/hellbender.jpg
A hellbender won't have gills, and will be a lot more wrinkly. Plus the head is a bit different, and they lack the black stripe near the snout. Although eastern hellbenders are patterened, its more muted than that of the mudpuppy, with much less distinct spots.
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03-16-2006, 12:34 AM
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you are correct ! this is a mudpuppy, thanks for the help, we had a tank made up for her its 45 gallon and will contain life from her home water only, as its winter here we did get rocks, gravel ,two crayfish and a few small sunfish, we used plastic plants for now and will add more stuff as weather permits, These are pretty neat critter she has settled in and eats worms , raw fish and guessing anything slower then her....here is a pic  
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03-16-2006, 05:01 AM
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shes very prettyy 
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03-16-2006, 08:54 AM
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Hello,
Thanks for the ID Matt. I would have gone on thinking it was a hellbender! As already noticed I am sure, I am not up to par on the amphibian world. How large do mudpuppies get?
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03-16-2006, 11:04 AM
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Nice pics. Mudpuppies grow around 8-13 or so inches.
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