Noob In Need of a Frog!

[huey75]

Sorry Griff I was misinformed I was told boiling purified water I've never done it because it's so much easier to a couple drops of reptisafe

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[GrifTheGreat]

Sorry Griff I was misinformed I was told boiling purified water I've never done it because it's so much easier to a couple drops of reptisafe

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You could boil purified water. It only contains chlorine.

[Edisons 10K]

Lol, so consensus says Reptisafe is probably the best way to go. Noted. My tanks are all cleaned and disinfected and super rinsed and dried out. Fingers crossed that tomorrow I find my frogs! If nothing else I'll at least be able to pick up everything I need from the con and chat with Mike and the folks at LLL about the babies and anything else I may need to know. I'll post pics if I have a successful frog-purchasing run.

[Kaleen]

I've been silently keeping up with this thread, and excited to see how everything comes together. Good luck tomorrow, I hope you're able to find an awesome frog or two.

-Kaleen

[Edisons 10K]

Success! I wanted Ornates, but alas, the con didn't have any. Buuuut, Mike was selling gorgeous Cranwellis at two for $30. Can't beat that! His frogs are awesome! He's younger than I was expecting, which I thought was funny, lol.

Anyway, I chose two that were slightly more different from each other than I had originally planned, but they look similar enough that I don't think anyone will notice the difference on screen. It's not like I'm going to be using them all the time. No one's going to remember what spots were exactly where between episodes. I thought being able to tell them apart for myself was important, lol.

So, my new friends, I present you Georgie:


And Mason:


Mason's brighter than he looks in the pics. The angle of the light in his tank wasn't quite as good as that for Georgie's. George measures in at about 1 1/4 inches right now, and Mason is a little smaller at 1 1/8. I'm hoping that Mason is a boy and Georgie is a girl, but we'll see when they get older. Either way, I lurve them already! So cute!!!

[GrifTheGreat]

Well people might notice the size difference. Females are larger than males so if you have a pair someone will notice. There is about an inch or more difference between the genders.

Both of these frogs are quite nice. Good choices.

[Edisons 10K]

Well people might notice the size difference. Females are larger than males so if you have a pair someone will notice. There is about an inch or more difference between the genders.

Both of these frogs are quite nice. Good choices.

They wouldn't ever be on screen at the same time, and mostly I plan on keeping them in the enclosure for their scenes. Even if one turns out to be drastically larger than the other, I can easily play with camera angles to rectify that. Actually, even if the coloring or patterns turn out super different I can probably edit that in post via CG, now that I think about it. It shouldn't really be that much of an issue to make people believe that I'm using the same frog for every scene. Only you experts will be able to tell.

Good looking frogs! I hope you post a link to the result of your filming!

Thanks! I quite like them! I'm already seeing the personality differences. Mason likes to hang out in his water dish, which is funny to me because the character I named him after not only can't swim, but had an incident in an episode of the show where he was in the water and got struck by lightning, lol! He is a bit more hyper, though, which actually does fit that character quite nicely. Georgie, on the other hand, seems to be pretty chill from what I can tell, which is very true to the character I named her after. She didn't seem nearly as rattled by the whole transport home and subsequent adjustment to her new tank thing as Mason did. If they stay this way I'm thinking Georgie will be the one that can maybe be handled on those rare occasions, and Mason will be the one filmed from in his enclosure who may actually do more than just sit there looking pretty for the camera, lol.

But, yeah, we've got some months of growing to do before either of them are ready to be big stars. That gives me more than enough time to get my locations and crew and actors nailed down more securely, plus getting any changes in the scripts blocked out. I'm hoping to shoot the promo video for the crowd sourcing campaign maybe in late Februaruy/March (this will consist of the actors running around doing exciting things in the woods, mostly, so the frogs may have like a blip of a shot if even that as they'll still be too young at that time), then I can get going on the first season shortly after that. There'll definitely be links for you guys as they go live.