MOTW - Aug 5 - Aug 11 2012 - Welseybrouwer

[Faith]

Congrats, loved hearing about you and your life And double congrats on your son. I have two (they are actually the reason we held off on raising frogs.) Now that they are getting up better in age, we're going to start out small and include them in with it. Should be an adventure for sure. Look forward to seeing you around!

[Jenste]

Tuesday, tell us about your amphibians. How you came to keep them, mistakes/learning curves, species kept, breedings, how you found Frog Forum etc....we heard enough about you on Monday, let us hear about them frogs!

[GrifTheGreat]

Nice to see the man behind the awesome Photos revealed. Great to hear more about your life.

I like your sons name!!

[wesleybrouwer]

Tuesday, tell us about your amphibians. How you came to keep them, mistakes/learning curves, species kept, breedings, how you found Frog Forum etc....we heard enough about you on Monday, let us hear about them frogs!

I think i told to much on day 1
Like i said, i think it started out from my fish hobby.
Always had a love for animals tho.
I was raised with lots of animals.
At home we had dogs, cats, a horse, goats, rabbits, chickens and fish when i was little.
We lived in a home with a large piece of ground (in Dutch point of view that is ) so we had all the space for them.
In the yard i was always looking for frogs around the pool and dike in the back.
My grandpa always had aquaria as well, especially the salt water ones were my favourite, but never had a chance to get one myself.

Like everyone else, i made some mistakes over time.
Not taking enough time to let the viv settle,
leaving my 200+ offspring of P.bicolor in front of a window, while going out the rainy weather turned sunny all of a sudden.
Resulting in most of my offspring to die..... etc.

I kept a wide variety of frog species over time.
I think my heart still is with the African and Asian species most.
Love the way the evolved, in my point of view even more incredible then the poison darts or other new world species.

I now bred and kept Phyllomedusa, Trachycephalus, Afrixalus, Hyperolius, Heterixalus, Boophis, Guibemantis, Mantella, Microhyla, Agalychnis, Polypedatus, Rhacophorus, Bufo, Pedostibes, Melanophryniscus,Occidozyga, Bombina and some Dedrobatids.
Perhaps i forgot some, but i covered most i guess.
At the moment my collection consists of Pedostibes, 3 Mantella species, 3 types of pumilio, Trachycephalus, leucomelas and P.bicolor.

At last, how i came to FF.
I was searching forums for DN, when i spoke to someone that ordered a magazine.
He told me to take a look at this forum.
Well, i must say that i liked the atmoshere so much that i decided to stick around
At the moment posting on FF most on day to day basis.
It became one of my favourite forums i came across. (And it are lots i visited )

So thumbs up for John and all active FF members making this forum to what it is.

[Jenste]

Alright everybody, Picture day!!!!

Wednesday, show and tell. Wow us with your pictures/videos/sound clips.