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How small was it? It looks a bit like Microhyla borneensis, a.k.a. M. nepenthicola, one of the world's smallest frogs. Notable for breeding and spending much of its life in or around the pitchers of...
A non-frog amphibian for anyone who's interested; a few quick shots of Hynobius sonani, taken in the Central Mountains of Taiwan. One of five native salamanders, all Hynobiids, all endemic, all...
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Here are a few more pics of Rhacophorus moltrechti from several months ago, taken when I only knew it from further south.
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Hi all. I intended to post the bulk of these photos a couple of months ago, but stuff got in the way that I had to deal with. (In other words, many of these photos are at least a couple of months...
On the way back I stopped off at a hill just outside of Xindian, a suburb of Taipei City. There's a small-scale farming area there, again with lots of buckets, boxes, etc. These seem to be used as...
Hi all. Just thought I'd post some pics from a few recent trips to the hills around Taipei, Taiwan. No new frogs for me, but it's always like meeting old friends when I get out for the first time of...
Great photos ... thanks for sharing!
Great photos ... thanks for sharing!
"Pinhead crickets" is just a term to describe newly-hatched crickets, of whichever kind. They'll grow to however large adults of that particular species get ... probably up to an inch for most feeder...
Uh, that'll be "game laws" ... nothing to do with games of chance, though I guess a game of chance is generally what you end up playing with trained bureaucrats.
I'm not in any way familiar with US gaming laws or whatever, but what's the thinking behind such legislation? Are spring peepers considered a protected species or is there some other reasoning? If...
Yes, I'm quite fond of Pepe! I didn't really expect I'd like him so much ... I fully intended to put him and all his siblings back once they'd metamorphosed. I reckoned they would just be "boring"...
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Quite a few of Taiwan's frog populations live in marginal environents, in farms or roadsides or wasteground, and most years I collect a few eggs from buckets, cans, tyre ruts, etc, which are likely...
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Just thought I'd post a few photos of my two tree frogs. Bongo is a Hyla chinensis and Pepe a Polypedates braueri. Bongo was raised from an egg and Pepe from just-hatched tadpole,...
I could be wrong, but that looks more like the hybrid N. 'Miranda'. To my eyes at least. Most N. ventricosa I've seen have squatter pitchers. I have a Miranda outside in my plastic "greenhouse" ......
I've had some big tubs of crickets - pinheads to adults - going in the office for a few months now. Haven't noticed much smell, apart from when the adults start dying off. Otherwise, not nearly as...
I fed them to my newts for a while, and they digested fine, but I was always careful to give newly-moulted larvae. If you have enough mealworms and you dig around in the substrate for a while, you...
When my tree frogs were small and I was feeding them fruit flies (D. melanogaster - the only kind I could get here), the flies would just wander en masse out of the Exo Terra tank. I sealed the doors...
Thanks for the replies! I don't think I've seen anything here that specifically states "aquarium safe". The stores I've visited where tanks are made or repaired just use general glazing sealant,...
Hi guys, I'm looking to make some backgrounds and perches for a terrarium, but am left scratching my head over which kinds of silicone sealants will be most harmless for frogs once cured....
Oops! What's wrong with tomato? I've had some in my cricket tub for a couple of days but luckily without mass casualties that I can see. Better get it out I suppose!
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Oops, I made a mistake: I meant brown for house cricket and black for field cricket.
The black crickets, to my eye, look like the field crickets that a Google search...
A couple of photos to show the two different types of cricket I was babbling on about:
http://www.frogforum.net/members/numpty-albums-2014-captive-release-picture72621-brown-cricket.jpg
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