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Nice one. Both great looking enclosures

pretty much use to have turtles, then a water dragon, in there. ply walls, mesh lid, it's on wheels so I can wheel it outside on sunny days. for the last year i had young bell frogs in there, fed them lots of mini-mealworms on gravel+sand as a trial to see if they would get impacted. All grew like mad and not one sick frog. Very hardy little frogs :thup: Recently bought frogs in from brumation so the above is going to be a dry phase enclosure, at this stage anyway, who knows what tomorrow brings, i sure dont :sml2:

frogs on left thinking about becoming vegans? ones on right having a mean basking battle :sml2: spinach

Blame the health system not the game. Some sad sacks of kumara on here lately.

warehouse pond liners going strong here 3/4years on. actually one pond slowly leaks down about 10-15cm, but has done that since i set the thing up. must of punctured it with the driftwood i think. if the ground has lots of rocks and tree roots, would be better off with butynol. Or maybe first, just put some old carpet/sand/soft soil, then put the warehouse liner down.

saucey :lol:

JKNZ - southern bells would be my guess. if well over 5cm that would also hint bell.

feed them well and they will just lay when ready, sometimes go off food for a day or two prior to laying. sometimes putting them in a separate enclosure, or plastic bin with damp soil and or sand. want it damp enough so the lizard can construct a cave, where she should then lay the eggs, then cover it all up so you cant tell where they are. as soon as she has covered them and starts walking off or just basking, move her back to normal viv, dig up eggs and put in incubator. can do this, best in seperate viv but doesn't have to be. lay boxs etc http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bearded+dragon+laying+box&aq=1&oq=bearded+dragon+laying+

Just wondering if the females occasionally eat bad/infertile eggs. Wouldn't hurt to separate, not sure if that is the problem though. Make sure she's getting good food with lots of calcium. Has access to a suitable area for laying etc. Sorry not much help. I had all sorts of issues when I tried breeding beardies, so probably not the best person to give advice

Interesting. I thought one of mine did this in the past but never actually saw it happen. Were the last lot fertile? Sounds like she needs to be left alone to lay the rest of the clutch.

just one of many spawns that ended up like that. very frustrating. cool, should be interesting to see what they produce.

True and all makes sense. Just posted a pic of some tadpoles with bent spines. http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=53297&start=45 Saves hijacking this thread anymore I suppose :dunno:

Not one straight tadpole in that lot :facepalm: mbd?

Probably linked to chemicals. is not good what ever it is. Any photos of said albino tadpoles? I have no problem keeping albinos alive, find them much like any other tadpoles, bent spines is the major issue with my stock. May just be diet related after all, still to soon to say though.

May be they were'nt fed enough? I have seen them turn on each other in the past, but only after not feeding them for like a week or more. Think water temp has a bit to do with it also. As have kept them in bath tubs outdoors without food for months (generally over winter) and they always seem to have all the digits come summer.

when i use to have standard abns a few years ago. I got some labelled teminiki from animates and they were lighter than the abns I had obtained privately. Cant remember which, or if both lots had spots. Not sure if just colour variants or another strain, either way they did look different.

Generally ok to house more than one, just keep well fed, the bigger the tank the better. I had 6 in a tank 120cmx38x38cm until recently, no legs missing just lots of eggs which make a real mess of the tank. Have seen them eat legs off in the past, but never when they have been fed within the last couple of days.

just a banjo :sml2: should be able to find most info with the search function up top.

yeah pretty much. may take a dead worm if you wiggle it around, but waste of time imo, let the worm do the wiggling.

Better than nothing. Can we get 30watt? Photo of viv would give me a better idea. What kind of bulb, household, spotlight, halogen, or fluro? I don't do litres, dimensions give a better picture for me?

I think it's fair to say the nappies them selves have nothing to do with the sport. Limited edition nappies, that's good :sml2: 1 more sleep to go fokes :thup:

Apparently no team who has ever one the tri nations has ever gone on to win the world cup. Fair to say we handed that one to the Aussies + it gets thier supporters over here so we get their $$ and they can eat our apples. Then we win the cup. Great times :lol:

If you don't put a heater in the water or heat pad with thermostat under tank, it would be best to put a basking bulb of some sort. Then the frogs can warm up during the day. How warm is the room it is kept in? Compact fluro uvb bulbs give off a bit of heat especially if mounted in clamp lamp/dome shades as it sort of contains and directs the heat down. That's all I use for light + basking for froglets . Once they get a bit of size on they go in bigger enclosures. Compact fluro's don't give off enough heat for bigger enclosures and or a large number of frogs though, so that's when I add basking bulbs.

sounds good. :thup:

Can get away with no plants at all. Fake plants should be fine, basically if safe for fish should be ok for frogs. Live plants are good in the sense they can suck up unwanted nutrients from the water. Even just a small handful of java or xmas moss in the water is good. I try and feed them at least every other day. If a frog is skinny, offer food daily. If getting fat, flies are good exercise :sml2: I have a feeling most people don't heat them. Keeping them indoors seems to be enough in most cases. However the growth rate with temps consistantly under 20C is very slow. They will actually survive in very minimal conditions. For example: a basking bulb is not really needed, but they seem to utilise it, and I think many frogs tanks are often overly humid, so the basking bulb helps to dry out the air along with raising temp aiding with digestion.