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Re: MOTW - Sept 9 - Sept 15 2012 - IrishRonin
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!
Well as I stated yesterday I have been into frogs for as long as I can remember, Red eyes have been my favorite sence I was a little kid. After bugging my mom for awhile she "bought" my first pair of greys in second grade, I had lots of WC pet frogs before that. In preschool I caught and brought a Huge bullfrog for show and tell. As far as learning curves and mistakes.... since I started very young and my mom didn't know anything about frogs to help me out I've unfortunately made plenty of mistakes and I don't have that kind of time to go into all of them. A few though would be adequate ventilation for tree frogs and visa-versa for darts, this one came up just a couple of weeks ago.... tree frogs dont swim well, and keeping multi-species together is not all that good of an idea. Luckily as a kid (3-7grade) my friends step father was a herpetologist/entomologist/paleontologist (very accomplished man to say the least), he taught me A LOT! Well at the moment I have on display 1 Ceratophrys ornata (thanks again grif), about 20(including froglets) Pacific chorus Frogs (Pseudacris regilla), 2 reed frogs (unknown type), 1 Tiger Leg Monkey Tree Frog Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis, 2 red spotted toads (Bufo punctatus), 3 Oriental Fire-bellied Toad (Bombina orientalis), 5 bumble bee walking toads (Melanophryniscus dorsalis), 4 whites tree frogs(Litoria caerulea), 1 American bull frog (Rana catesbeiana), 1 leopard frog (Rana pipiens), 2 Fire Belly Newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster), 5 African dwarf frogs (Hymenochirus boettgeri) and 1 Ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii). Tot think 1 1/2 years ago my work had no amphibians. As far as breeding goes I've breed more reptiles than amphibians, I have breed chors frogs, bullfrogs, and once, just once i was able to breed a pair of azureus I had years ago. I found the forum looking for new ways to build terrariums, before you guys/girls I had never done the foam backgrounds.
