baby amphibians!

[lovespunaround]

I went out with my mom yesterday to look for salamanders...came home with some new friends, of course

spotted salamander eggs

green frog tadpole

marbled salamander larva

can't wait for these guys to get bigger

 

[fishcatch22]

cool, gonna make a community?

 

[lovespunaround]

Yeah I've been thinking about possible vivarium setups, stuff with streams running through them...that would be cool if I could pull it off.

 

[davo]

Not sure how they'll cohabit, but a cool enough project. Just reminded me would be a good time to go herpin'

 

[Danyal]

that green frog tad looks alot like a bullfrog tad, if it is a bullfrog then all you're other inhabitants won't be around for long.

 

[lovespunaround]

My mom and I are pretty sure it's a green frog. It's not as round as the bullfrog tadpoles I've seen. But if it is a bullfrog, it's got another year or two before it turns, so plenty of time for my salamanders to grow up

 

[Danyal]

i don't know, the first thing i fed my bullfrog(i used to have one that was about 6" svl) was a 3" long toad. i didn't know anything about the bullfrogs voracious appitite and put the toad in for "company" and 15min later i came back and it was gone. even just out of the water they're pretty much a big walking mouth and an active will to hunt. i'd bet if chuck norris was a frog, he'd be a bullfrog.

 

[lovespunaround]

If Chuck Norris were a frog, all other species of amphibians would be obsolete.

 

[softturtle]

that green frog tad looks alot like a bullfrog tad, if it is a bullfrog then all you're other inhabitants won't be around for long.

I forgot how long exactly but it takes a bullfrog tadpole a few years before its metamorphosis into its adult stage of life.

 

[lovespunaround]

Turns out green frogs are predominant in the pond where I got the tadpole, so it's probably not a bullfrog. It's cool though, because I'd rather have a green frog. The only thing I like more about bullfrogs is that they're more likely to sing in the summer, but damn they eat too much.