Hibernation setups.

[jtay]

On a totally unrelated note - but something you will appreciate Ebony -
I have been accepted to volunteer in a research project over the next two weeks researching frog predators out in the Waitakere Ranges at Huia.
We will be setting traps to catch rats and stoats and examining what in in their stomachs - to see if they are preying on frogs, and also at night will be looking for the endemic Hochstetter's frog!
I am so excited, just got off the phone to the guy who is running the project.
Yay!

[Ebony]

Oh..Wow! That sounds so exciting. I would love to hear how it all went when you get back.

Im sorry about your Whistlers.

[jtay]

Thanks, really sucks. I will get it right next time with some healthy specimens, preferably tadpoles

[Ebony]

My Whistlers are croaking heap's at the moment, so you never no, I may be able to help you with that, If not then next year. I don't send tadpoles though, only Frogs.

[jtay]

I would be happy to accept frogs from you - they would be healthy as! Let me know if you do get froglets in the future and I'll set up a home.
Trouble with buying tadpoles is that they may not become what they are advertised as - I think L.aurea, L.raniformis, and L.ewingii all look very similar don't they?
I assume it would be the same collecting from a pond - if different species all spawn in same place...

[Ebony]

The tadpoles do look different. The L. raniformis and the L. ewingi do look similar, but he colouring is slightly different. L. raniformis is a dark green and the L. ewingi is more a dark gray/green. L. aurea have a yellow colouring. I do no of a place here where Southerns & Whistlers live in the same area and breed in the same pond.

[jtay]

Oh ok, in the past whenever I have inquired as to what species taddies are I get an 'I think' , 'not sure', or 'could be' response. Untrained eyes apparently! I cant tell but I have only seen L.aurea taddies.