Permit and origin papers for a native salamander
The paperwork to check first after moving house with a tiger salamander is his legal position at the new address. Tiger salamanders are a native North American species protected in several states, and the rules on keeping them vary — some states require a permit or proof the animal was captive-bred rather than collected. If your move crossed a state line, confirm what the new state asks of salamander keepers and keep his breeder or seller documents with his file, updated with your new address.
Update his veterinary record at the same time. Amphibian vets are scarcer than dog and cat vets, so his file may be held by a general exotics clinic some distance away; make sure that clinic has the new address and your current phone number, and find out which practice near the new home would see him in an emergency, even if his routine records stay with the specialist.
The water note a salamander's file must carry
A tiger salamander lives in damp substrate and soaks in his water dish, and his permeable skin takes in whatever surrounds him. Write the new home's water routine into his paperwork: how his soaking and misting water is treated before use, and any change the new supply has meant. That note belongs at the front of his care sheet, because it is the detail a helper is most likely to get wrong with plain tap water and good intentions.
Send his feeding log with any vet transfer. Earthworms and other soft prey, how many he takes, and how his appetite shifts across the seasons — tiger salamanders often eat eagerly in the cooler months and slow down in heat — give a vet the pattern to judge him against. Note his burrowing habits too: a salamander that spends weeks hidden underground is behaving normally, and having that written down prevents needless digging-up checks by a worried sitter.
Rewriting the emergency sheet for amphibian handling
The care sheet at the new address needs handling instructions specific to a salamander. He is touched only with wet hands, never with dry skin or lotions, and he is moved by guiding him into a damp container rather than being grabbed. List his feeding schedule, his substrate moisture routine, the room temperature range his enclosure should stay within, and the new vet and emergency contact details at the top, alongside the new address.
Record the new room's conditions on the sheet during the first weeks. A basement or ground-floor room at the new house may hold the cool, stable temperatures a tiger salamander wants far better than the old room did — or worse — and the written readings settle which.
His permanent file
Keep his purchase or breeder paperwork, any permit copies, feeding and weight notes, skin and health observations, and vet summaries in one permanent file with a copy stored separately. For a protected native species, that folder is both a care record and his proof of legal keeping.
Filing his permit papers, water note, feeding log and vet history in KinsLe's Pet Passport keeps your tiger salamander's record complete, legal and easy to hand over at the new address.