MOTW - Mar 24 - Mar 30 2013 - Jenste

[Sasha]

Great to learn more about you! We are Game of Thrones fans too but I don't know if I could read the books, I would constantly be comparing the two. My mom was not a good cook either and always said "if you don't like what I cooked, then don't eat". So I learned how to really cook from watching t.v. and experimenting. I now love to cook, but hate to clean up!

It's also funny as to what creeps men out. My boyfriend likes my frogs but is afraid to touch them. Also, he can kill a bug for me but he has a problem going in the basement to get crickets to feed his bearded dragon. It's so funny.

[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!

This is actually a very fitting week to be MOTW. I have started keeping frogs again!
Due to personal reasons, last year I had to rehome my stock. I am very very VERY excited to share that I am now the proud owner of a colony of young ADF.
Currently I have 10 in a 20 gallon long. In the future I hope to increase that number and hopefully breed down the line.

I have kept three species of African Clawed frog - Xenopus Laevis, Xenopus Borealis, and Xenopus Tropicalis. For Laevis, I have kept natural/wildtype, albino, golden albinos, reticulated albinos and piebalds. The piebalds particularly were my treasures and it was very upsetting to have to let them go last year.
I did have the pleasure of breeding my ACF and boy was it an adventure!

I have also kept Axolotls and had a group of 7 breeding adults going when I had to rehome them last year. I had wildtypes, wildtype GFP, albino and leucistic. Raising their young was more of a challenge than raising ACF as this was my first time using growing my own brine shrimp. I hate brine shrimp now haha. I felt like a mad scientist with all these bubbling things around me.

I started keeping frogs back when I first started keeping my own aquarium, which was a gift. I look back on the stocking now and cringe - Tank was given to me with fish and frogs and it was a nightmare...tropical and coldwater mixed, completely different requirements needed, I had no idea about water changes/filtration/over feeding/anything. Most of my stock died, not surprisingly, and I mainly was left with an ACF and a few adf in the same tank (they were all still really new and young). By looking around on line, I found this forum. It was still a while before I joined but by then the addiction had taken a deep root and I was hooked to aquatic frogs.

Now I am happy to say I have really done a 180* and my tanks are a source of pride and not shame.
Besides my 20 gallon long ADF tank, I have a 72 gallon bow discus tank which is my display/show tank in our living room.
I also have a breeding pair of angels who have gone crazy keeping me busy raising their numerous spawns. All in all this has taken up my 26 gallon bow, multiple 10-30 gallon tanks and tubs.

[DartEd]

Congratulations.

[Jenste]

Picture time! Warning...might be a picture overload! Hubby recently bought me a new camera and I am having way too much fun learning how to use it!

Here are my new ADFs in their 20 gallon long. Please forgive the current set up, it is still new and the plants need time to grow in.






Chubby belly after lunch


They love the lilies! They are about 1/2-1/3" below the surface, just relaxing





You can't see me! The water wisteria on the right has become a favorite spot for them. I can not wait for it to grow into a thick bushy froggy paradise

[Jenste]

My Discus tank, The only changes since the photos is the lily plant has been moved to the frog's tank and most of the water wisteria has either been given away with my baby angelfish or moved to the frogs tank.

[Jenste]

My Angelfish pair and some of their spawns (some of these are older photos taken with my phone)

Pair, female on left male on right (phone pic, sorry)

Female


One of their spawns right after being laid


Mama with fry newly freeswimming




Three weeks old




Short video
VIDEO0241.mp4 Video by jenstefrog | Photobucket