Spotted Marsh Frog

[CatherineM]

Did a head count yesterday, while cleaning. 5 spotted marsh frogs, 1 southern brown frog and 1 tadpole. Looking at having a 70% survive rate.

[taniaaust1]

Hi there, I could? have those kind of frogs but arent sure. My eldest one has just finished reabsorbing its tail this morning and I have another froglet too, they are only as big as my thumb nail thou. So tiny and cute.

I got told mine were spotted barking marsh frogs. I had 10 tabpoles which I got from someones pond and 2 other tabpoles from the pet shop which I got before the others which I got told were local marsh frogs. The 2 lots of tabpoles look different thou from each other so I think they could be different kinds of marsh frogs. The ones I got from the pet shop being plain black (no markings showing) so darker then the dark gray with paler grey bellies of the other mash frogs with many showing markings while still in the tabpole stage.

I havent lost many of my tabpoles at all (actually Im not aware of loosing any) thou some of the ones when I first got were very tiny. I so thou have one outside in my pond in which I arent sure if its going to make it or not (its tail is half eatten but its still swimming fine..it thou was floating tail up and couldnt stay down 5 days ago so I scooped out of the pond and put it into isolation inside but it was well and swimming properly again 12hrs later so back in the pond it went.

One thing thou I notice about your tabpoles in which my marsh frogs seem different to yours, is that when my spotted barking tabpoles get their legs.. their legs are a completely different colour to their bodies .. yours thou seem to come throu the same colour as their bodies. So maybe we dont have the same, as mine have legs very different from their bodies when they first come throu (and then their bodies change colour after to match the legs).

I need to work out the proper name of the 2 lots of marsh tabpoles I got. Im kind of worried about my baby frog and froglet as they climbed half way out of their pond today so may leave pond any time (if that is what marsh frogs do???) but around my pond is infested with ants (so Im worried they may attack the frogs). Hopefully baby frogs will be smart enough to avoid the ants and find themselves a safe place.

[CatherineM]

My spotted marsh frogs also know as spotted grass frogs are one of the five species of frog we can keep in Victoria without a license.

Their scientific name is limnodynastes tasmanoensis.

[CatherineM]

The Barking Marsh Frog (Limnodynastes fletcheri) is an other species of frog, very similar looking to the spotted marsh.

[taniaaust1]

My spotted marsh frogs also know as spotted grass frogs are one of the five species of frog we can keep in Victoria without a license.

Their scientific name is limnodynastes tasmanoensis.

We get limnodynastes tasmanoensis in Adelaide too. Maybe the first 2 tabpoles I got from pet shop are those, the pet shop had no idea what kind of marsh frogs they grow into, best info I could get from them were "local marsh frogs" (its kind of sad when a pet shop has no idea what its really selling people).

The regulations in Sth Australia when I looked into it (unless I was looking at old online info) are far less strict then the other states of Australia. So I could build up a frog collection here (hope they dont change things).

Im actually interested in breeding/conservation of the endangered/vulnerable species (eg Litoria raniformis, growling grass frogs). in natural like environments once I have experience with tabpoles and frogs (of cause I'd definately have to look more into the laws here as far as that went). I cant thou see myself as doing that for at least 2-3 years thou, would like ponds all set up and going healthy and other healthy frogs breeding happily there first with no issues

[CatherineM]

Some nice pictures of spotted marsh frog

http://frogs.org.au/frogs/species/Li.../tasmaniensis/

[Striped marsh]

Congratulations on the morphs they are looking Great! Love Marsh frogs an interesting species to keep, if I had the space I would defiantly get back into them, thanks for the share and updates.

[CatherineM]

Jared,

Can you have a quick look at the green frog. Does he look like a brown tree frog to you?