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.