My Australian Marsh Frog

[Froggiestyle]

why cant you get another species????

[Froggiestyle]

here is another picture of one on the new bromeliad i put in the tank

[Whistly]

Well you see in NZ the only frogs we can keep are the Green and Golden Bell frogs Southern Bell frogs and Whistling Tree frogs. There's 4 native species which are really small, have no external ear drums, they look gorgeous but unfortunately are endangered. They are called the Archey's frog, Hamilton' frog, Maud Island frog and Hochstetters frog they are probably the BEST camouflaged frogs I've ever seen. My frog Camo looks a bit like the Maud Island frog. Unfortunately there's less than 300 Hamilton's frog remaining.

[Froggiestyle]

ohhh ok then fair enough, we can house about 22 of them i think.

and yes desease is a main factor in the frog industry, if only we could find a cure for this.


this is also my tank with some real plants in them.

[Whistly]

Great looking tank shame about the leak though. There were originally 7 natives but 3 are long gone. Unfortunately disease is a big factor but also doing it to our natives are ferrits, possums and pretty much anything that can fit a frog in it's mouth fortunately conservation areas have been eradicated of all pests. Here's a rather big snippet of an article:

Researchers are struggling to stop deaths of native frogs being kept in captivity in case the wild population dies out.
Out of 83 Archey's frogs kept at Auckland Zoo since March 2005, 42 have died.
A week ago the zoo revealed that five of its six blue penguins had died in the last six months. The frog deaths are unrelated.
The frogs have been kept inside to protect them from chytrid fungus, which has wiped out some Australian frog species and has started killing New Zealand frogs.
But staff working for a joint project between the zoo, the Department of Conservation and a frog recovery group have found it difficult to keep the frogs healthy in captivity.
At 37mm long, Archey's frogs are the smallest of New Zealand's four remaining native frogs. They live only in moist, misty areas of the Coromandel and in one site west of Te Kuiti.
DoC classifies them as "nationally critical" - its highest threat category.
No one knows how many are left, although DoC frog ecologist Amanda Haigh said there could be between 5000 and 20,000.
The captive breeding programme was planned after the frog population at a Coromandel monitoring site plunged 88 per cent in the mid-1990s, probably because of the chytrid fungus.

[Froggiestyle]

and they say all this, but yet we cant house them cure and breed them even more and restart all over again, S**ts me to no end seriously.

There is alot of beautiful frogs out there but we cant keep the cycle going by owning them and reproducing them.

think our frogs are lucky lol, we know whats in there tank and that cant harm the little guys you know haha.

[Whistly]

So true personally I think people should be allowed to keep them on one condition, they breed them and release the new frogs as to keep the original frogs breeding.