General Exotics

[Kurt]

When I was there I wanted to move there. I think I would love to live in either Laguna or San Diego.

[Nora]

Not directly related to purchase experience but the frogs being sold as Vietnamese Spotted Gliding Frogs (Rhacophorus annamensis) are another one of those juvenile color change examples like a peacock - but more so. I was looking into Annams several months back - and they only keep that coloration for a short time before becoming a muddy tree bark brown. Nice looking body form but no special color attraction as adults.
I haven't ordered from General Exotics - I did some limited looking at the place last summer, a real mixed bag of responses, some people loved them some hated - the only thing substantial that I got from my research was that their turnover seemed fairly high with all the pros and cons that go with that type of operation.

[Kurt]

Thanks for the heads up.

[SethD]

I wouldn't recommend them. I have heard of a couple of negative experiences and I also see they directly copied and pasted information taken from several care sheets on the web to make their "hobby notes" about a species. That is generally considered in poor taste if you don't ask permission. I know they didn't ask permission to copy and paste parts of my M. stelzneri article and I doubt they ask permission for parts I recognize they copied and pasted from the care sheets of others either.

[John]

If you direct him to remove it, he is obligated by copyright law to do so. His full contact information is listed here: Generalexotics.com - General Exotics - Exotic Animals from GeneralExotics.com, Buy Your Reptiles and Amphibians Here!

[SethD]

If you direct him to remove it, he is obligated by copyright law to do so. His full contact information is listed here: Generalexotics.com - General Exotics - Exotic Animals from GeneralExotics.com, Buy Your Reptiles and Amphibians Here!

Nah, I am not going to bother asking him to remove it, my goal in writing that article was to make a little information available as little or nothing was available on that species. I wouldn't have minded in the least if he had asked, I just think it is just a bit in poor taste to copy and paste from care articles others wrote without asking permission or saying where you got it from. He seems to have done the same thing with his "hobby notes" for scaphiophryne marmorata as well. Apparently he did quite a bit of copy and paste from Marc Staniszewski's article which can be found here: Madagascan Burrowing Frogs Care Sheet

[SethD]

I went ahead and edited it. In my defense, it was not taken from FrogForum.net -

http://www.noahsarkpetsshop.com/care...lkingtoad.html

I don't know who wrote it first??

It was first up on Devin edmonds site. Amphibian Care >> Yellow and Black Walking Toad (Melanophryniscus stelzneri) It has been there for a number of years. I guess "Noahsarkpetshop.com" copied it from there. With the fresh imports coming in this year quite a bit of new interest was kindled and John asked if he could post it here as well.

[Firestar72]

Well, I just checked my email. I thought it was going to be a shipped status but it was....

General Exotics Reptiles and Amphibians
Order Number: ####



Date Ordered: Friday 30 April, 2010
The comments for your order are: Sorry, we are out of Blue dumpy's. Our main supplier is out so it will be two weeks before he has them. I am trying to locate some for you. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. I will let you know tomorrow for sure. Thanks.
Your order has been updated to the following status:
New status: Backorder

The problem is I also ordered small crickets from joshsfrogs.com at the same time..if I wait too weeks the crickets might be too big and I will have wasted my money. But, I'll know more tomorrow.

[Kurt]

Well, thats a bummer.

[Firestar72]

I just wanted to give an update. Eric from generalexotics.com wasn't able to find any blue White's Tree Frogs. He offered to send me some crickets when I got frogs from him a few weeks from now. But I decided I would rather have a refund. I did get my full refund from him and then I went to another site and bought 2 blues. I'll see how they work.

[Paul Rust]

The problem is I also ordered small crickets from joshsfrogs.com at the same time..if I wait too weeks the crickets might be too big and I will have wasted my money. But, I'll know more tomorrow.

If something like this happen again Joshs Frogs will ship the size you want whenever you want them, just call them and they will work it out. Josh is a great guy and will try everything to accomodate your needs.

[Firestar72]

I finally got my two White's Tree frogs from generalexotics.com

[Socrates]

Those don't look like Blue's to me. But groovy frogs nonetheless!

[Firestar72]

Those don't look like Blue's to me. But groovy frogs nonetheless!

I think they are a little cold, maybe thats why they are darker. Heres a closer up pic.

[Kurt]

Yeah!!!

[SludgeMunkey]

When I was there I wanted to move there. I think I would love to live in either Laguna or San Diego.

Many days I wondered why the %$#^ I ever left San Diego...then the crazy herp laws passed in 2007 and I was glad I got myself and my critters out legally before then.

[Kurt]

I was just visiting so I have no idea what the herp laws are like there.

[Ribbitmethis]

I tried asking for some information before ordering from General exotics (I was going to order Peacock Tree Frogs). That was about 1 to 1-1/2 weeks ago, still haven't heard anything back. All I asked for was information on the health of his juvies and if he'd had problems with parasites on his wild caught's in the recent past...
The listing does have a good detailed description of the color phases of the frog, and the one shown is an adult.
By the way, they have 2 listings for Leptopelis vermiculatus (aka Peacock Tree Frog OR Big Eyed Tree Frog) at different prices ($18 for PTF and $15 for BETF). There is no information given under the listing titled Big Eyed Tree Frog.

[John]

To the best of my knowledge he doesn't keep the stock on premises, but rather he re-sells for wholesalers.