A couple of bad shots

[froggy]

Here are a couple of very poor shots of a few of some of my animals (I;ve just put some pics of my A. opacum in the mole salamander section). The Hypselotriton orientalis is a 4 year-old CB female, who shares a tank with three WC animals (rescues, which have now recovered from sores etc and the females of which are breeding) and a half-sib male.

The Pelophylax esculentus (edible frogs) were lab rescues from excess stock (not for any of my work!) due to be culled.

I also have some I. a. apuanus and Xenopus muelleri, but they weren't co-operating.

C

 

[Azhael]

Nice, Chris
I can´t imagine what it must be to have Pelophylax around all day, though....they are noisy things xD They must be loving that aquaterrarium.
Are the apuanus kept in similar containers?

 

[froggy]

Thanks - I quite like the periodic chuckles, burbles, grunts and roars! I will hibernate them next winter and try to get some breeding going. The only female (out of 4 frogs) is very fat (partially because she is so tame and greedy that she gets a lot of the food whle the males dive at my approach) so I have high hopes for lots of spawn! The setup has a small filter that you can't see, and also requires three-bucket water changes every other day. They are very messy animals, and crickets are also very good at drowing themselves!
The frogs are in the largest really useful box model (150litres, I think), with the lid modified. My apuanus larvae are in a series of smaller RUBs (18 litres), but I want to upgrade them to deeper tanks at some point to increase volume without increasing footprint. The subadults are in a standard glass aquarium, which will also need to increase in size soon as they are growing so well!
I will tryt o get soem pictures of the apuanus soon

C