Spotted Marsh Frog

[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?

[taniaaust1]

great photos at that site.

here's the first photo I got of my first two frogs (as can be seen one is climbing out of the pond with his tail still on, the other still had some tail day before.. now who told me marsh frogs dont climb!).

[Striped marsh]

Jared,

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

Yeah I would say it is based on the brown stripe across the eyes, and I have seen them in this variation of colour before.

[taniaaust1]

Here's a photo of one of my baby spotted marsh frogs which shows colour better.

[CatherineM]

The Breeder is now saying the "southern brown frog" is a "green tree frog". The frog has been out of the water for three weeks, it is 2.5cm in length. I will post more photos tomorrow. The frog is currently kept room temperature.