I figure I will never become member of the week so allow me to briefly self-introduce here. I figure this is the more appropriate place because like everyone else on here, I love frogs, but particularly frogs of the Ceratophrys genus.

My name is Michael and I'm currently attending Humboldt State University (northern California) pursuing probably the last degree of my life in masters of biology. My thesis for those who care is on the prevalence of the infamous amphibian chytrid fungus in northern red-legged frog (Rana aurora) in northern California. I have six frogs and a leopard gecko right now and like I told Grif on another post it's a lot of pain moving these cages back and forth. I'm hoping that I'll graduate at the end of this year so I'll be moving back home to San Francisco. I had joined this forum a few months back and really enjoy looking at the different frogs people have on here.

Here are some pics that I just took an hour ago of my lovely frog friends.

These are my baby cornutas (two frogs here, although they appear to be nearly identical: the first 10 pics are from one frog, and last two pics are of the other):
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This is my Cranwelli saying "Got coconut fiber?"
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This is my big female cornuta.
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This is a western toad, Anaxyrus boreas, a common native toad on the west coast. Hard to take decent photos because this little guys is very active .
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This is the species that I study, northern red-legged frog. This particular one is a male, probably second year, as it croaks daily.
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Thanks for looking!