ZacharyLeesWife
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My hubby is in NC and I live in Baltimore so he sends me scale babies and bugs for the farm so I stay busy and the lizards keep me company!
Christmas list.
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Honey this is even better than the ladder you got me for my birthday!
Twitchet
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My christmas gifts are always rep things- much more useful than perfume or shoes! I need another mistking but that might have to be next next xmas!
Good luck with the phelsuma- I love them- they are beautiful creatures, hoping to add a few more next year- my fav is a quadriocellata and he is really inquisitive- not like the Madagascar that i have- the quad really looks at whats going on and studies everything- he's a gem.
Good luck with the phelsuma- I love them- they are beautiful creatures, hoping to add a few more next year- my fav is a quadriocellata and he is really inquisitive- not like the Madagascar that i have- the quad really looks at whats going on and studies everything- he's a gem.
Peachypink
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I have a husband and family that just don't get my reptile obsession so even if I asked I wouldn't get from any of them. So I just ask for hair stuff and electronics. My pets usually appear when my husband is deployed. Lol. He just rolls his eyes at me.
ZacharyLeesWife
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The big box happened to have a receipt on the side... I got to open them today because my new babies are coming next week. He got 2 tanks for some reason. I haven't figured out why yet and he won't tell me.
ZacharyLeesWife
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He's terrible at keeping secrets, I'm sure I'll know very soon!All sounds very mysterious, looking forward to seeing what happens!
ZacharyLeesWife
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The orchids are lovely only because they are plastic, lol. I am great at raising bugs, and passable with reptiles but damned if I don't seem to kill every plant I touch! The hubby did send some plants for the new tanks but I don't even know what they are! I have a male and female veiled. They're my babies. I was thinking dendros, too. The tank is definitely too small for any lizard that I can think of and I had been talking about dart frogs for the viv that I am working on in the living room but the waterfall removed them from the list of possibilities out there.
Twitchet
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I have dendrobates too, Patricia, leucs and sipaliwini, All kept separately obviously to avoid cross breeding, I didn't think I would love keeping them as much as I do but they are wonderful creatures, exquisite and fascinating to watch.personally I don't keep a pair in anything less than 18" sq, I don't know how much you know but the thing that caught me out is the amount they eat and unlike lizard food that is stocked by pet shops , fruit flies are not sold very often even in specialist rep shops so I had to order and then started growing my own cultures but they eat a large amount of flies a day.
If you want to grow plants, and believe me I have always managed to kill plants very well, get Arcadia jungle dawn lights, I kid you not but my vivs are all live planted and the plants are amazing, they don't grow leggy or yellow, they are so healthy and vigorous, never grown plants like it and you'll certainly need live plants for frogs.
Well all will be revealed soon I guess!
If you want to grow plants, and believe me I have always managed to kill plants very well, get Arcadia jungle dawn lights, I kid you not but my vivs are all live planted and the plants are amazing, they don't grow leggy or yellow, they are so healthy and vigorous, never grown plants like it and you'll certainly need live plants for frogs.
Well all will be revealed soon I guess!
ZacharyLeesWife
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I have to ask, I know that cross breeding tincs is a huge no no but I don't think I've come across the reasoning behind avoiding it. I am obviously a beginner in amphibian keeping so I'll defer to the experts and keep only one type if that's what is intended for the smaller tank. It's just been a bit puzzling to me I suppose.
Twitchet
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Hi there, a lot of frog keepers feel very strongly that at the moment darts are pure not tainted with other subspecies- their colouration is as it should be in nature ( although there are natural colour mutations from different regions) not like the massive variation people have bred with ball pythons- carpet pythons and boas- leopard geckos etc- i like the colour morphs but frog keepers feel protective towards darts as they are so stunning why start breeding a leucomelas morph- one with whiter spots- one with orange spots- when the original is about as fine as you can get.
It's also important or vital to frog keepers that if they buy a sipaliwini it is just that not a sip x patricia so actually not pure anymore and is a hybrid or mongrel.
I know what you mean- on the frog forums you can almost hear screaming if people say they have a mixed group- some will say you can keep non interbreeding species in the same tank but others or most experts - and i am no real expert sadly- will say focus on one species per tank well rather than a mix- you can theme the viv to the requirements and preferences of that species and keep any offspring pure so that it can be sold and bred as pure. That's the specialist keepers view which I agree with.
Hope that helps.
It's also important or vital to frog keepers that if they buy a sipaliwini it is just that not a sip x patricia so actually not pure anymore and is a hybrid or mongrel.
I know what you mean- on the frog forums you can almost hear screaming if people say they have a mixed group- some will say you can keep non interbreeding species in the same tank but others or most experts - and i am no real expert sadly- will say focus on one species per tank well rather than a mix- you can theme the viv to the requirements and preferences of that species and keep any offspring pure so that it can be sold and bred as pure. That's the specialist keepers view which I agree with.
Hope that helps.
ZacharyLeesWife
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Hi there, a lot of frog keepers feel very strongly that at the moment darts are pure not tainted with other subspecies- their colouration is as it should be in nature ( although there are natural colour mutations from different regions) not like the massive variation people have bred with ball pythons- carpet pythons and boas- leopard geckos etc- i like the colour morphs but frog keepers feel protective towards darts as they are so stunning why start breeding a leucomelas morph- one with whiter spots- one with orange spots- when the original is about as fine as you can get.
It's also important or vital to frog keepers that if they buy a sipaliwini it is just that not a sip x patricia so actually not pure anymore and is a hybrid or mongrel.
I know what you mean- on the frog forums you can almost hear screaming if people say they have a mixed group- some will say you can keep non interbreeding species in the same tank but others or most experts - and i am no real expert sadly- will say focus on one species per tank well rather than a mix- you can theme the viv to the requirements and preferences of that species and keep any offspring pure so that it can be sold and bred as pure. That's the specialist keepers view which I agree with.
Hope that helps.
That's exactly what I was looking for, thank you! I'm not sure that I'm getting frogs, but I am thinking thumbnails would possibly be better in a small enclosure? The smaller one is 12x12x18.
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