The first of our Spotted Marsh Frog tadpoles (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis) has morphed. It is about the size of my fingernail. We have placed pin head crickets in the enclosure.
Is any one else on the forum keeping these frogs or something similar?
Hi Catherine ! Do you have any pics of the froglets? What kind of set-up do you keep them? Thank you!
Remember to take care of the enclosure and it will take care of your frog !
We have opened the curtains to try and get a better picture. We will lower the water level when the rest of the tadpoles morph.
Picture 2. Froglet is below side black rock on the right side.
Picture 3. Froglet is below the 3 green leaves.
The little marsh frog has now being joined by a southern brown frog. We have a seven further tadpoles, 6 appear to be marsh tadpoles and one a southern brown. Some have four legs.
That's a lot of frogs; what are your plans for them ?
Remember to take care of the enclosure and it will take care of your frog !
We were told that we should have 70% developed into frogs. We have lost one as we started with 10.
At at this stage we may separate the tree frogs into their own tank. I would like to give them more climbing room. They grow to 3-6 cm.
That would leave the seven spotted marsh in their own tank. We will lower the water level to give them more land space. The Spotted Marsh Frog grow to between 3-5cm. If need be we will get another larger tank.
Catherine
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0.0.1 green tree frog
0.0.5spotted marsh frogs
2.0.0 kittens
0.2.0 hens
Found another little frog this morning, not sure what type yet. Only know that are two little ones as I saw them both at the same time
First frog the spotted marsh has coupled in size. It growing very quickly.
Catherine
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This afternoon update. We currently have three marsh frogs and one brown tree frog and two tadpoles. Currently have three tadpoles/ frogs uncounted for.
Catherine
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0.0.10 Gold fish
0.0.1 green tree frog
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Thanks for share !
Remember to take care of the enclosure and it will take care of your frog !
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.
Catherine
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0.0.10 Gold fish
0.0.1 green tree frog
0.0.5spotted marsh frogs
2.0.0 kittens
0.2.0 hens
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.
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.
Catherine
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0.0.10 Gold fish
0.0.1 green tree frog
0.0.5spotted marsh frogs
2.0.0 kittens
0.2.0 hens
The Barking Marsh Frog (Limnodynastes fletcheri) is an other species of frog, very similar looking to the spotted marsh.
Catherine
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0.0.10 Gold fish
0.0.1 green tree frog
0.0.5spotted marsh frogs
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0.2.0 hens
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
Some nice pictures of spotted marsh frog
http://frogs.org.au/frogs/species/Li.../tasmaniensis/
Catherine
0.0.2 Common Long-necked Tortoise
0.0.10 Gold fish
0.0.1 green tree frog
0.0.5spotted marsh frogs
2.0.0 kittens
0.2.0 hens
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.
~ Australian frogs Gotta love them
Jared,
Can you have a quick look at the green frog. Does he look like a brown tree frog to you?
Catherine
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0.0.10 Gold fish
0.0.1 green tree frog
0.0.5spotted marsh frogs
2.0.0 kittens
0.2.0 hens
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!).
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