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that's it eh, if i get it right, it should. if i don't it will be a fun clean up lol

tank's 1200x600x600, thinking of doing back and sides, should be interesting. i'll blame Rabbit if she doesnt work :slfg:

is silicon the best way to fasten it? if so, do you think i should just silicon direct to the glass, or pack it out a couple of mm?

interesting. i still wonder if mine will lose the blue tinge when it next sheds ... just gave it some kfc chicken, that'l get it growing lol

found that one in a shallow stream. got a little mate for it with a lil orange tinge on pincers :nilly:

http://www.youtube.com/user/nzexotics#p/u/0/2NMuiTgU4KA

ps if you do ever chuck some out. kill them first by putting in the freezer :thup:

to much moisture often results in mite outbreaks. dry it out/stop putting carrot in. they should go away if you correct the environment. chuck out if really bad.

is cool being able to observe the critters at night. just turn all other lights in the room off (stops reflections etc). vids come out sweet.

waxon waxoff lichen? of some sort the moss growing just below the lichen (on driftwood) looks similar to xmas moss (below on substrate) only smaller. since adding the mist it's, finally ,started to come away. :smln: wax = flash

that is true. the frogs dont know that though i probably should stop busting out with random frog noises :sml2:

frog calls to compare. all sound similar, to me ... http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/frogs/3/2 http://frogs.org.au/frogs/fov.php?frog_id=1 these are split albino. http://www.youtube.com/user/nzexotics#p/u/10/uk7YHu22BUU

wouldnt be surprised if some 'expert's claim d3 powder is sufficient ... maybe a good thing to have a separate discussion on all this talk of butterfly houses and waterdragons, yet no pics is kinda dull fokes :smln:

"The color of moonlight, particularly near full moon, appears bluish to the human eye compared to most artificial light sources." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight not a very good source and i guess we all see things through our own eyes

i do wonder if it disturbs my frogs having it on all night, but :dunno: and whether it will help the plants, add to algae issues ... think ppl just use blue cos it looks similar to moonlight - natural look.

tank full of mist hard to get a pic that captures what it really looks like. anyway thats some idea of the one i got. if just wanting blue light down one end you can get blue spot lights from bunnings. bit more costly on power though.

i purchased one of these the other week. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=371473902 bit cheap looking but so far all good. been running 24/7 ever since i got it (been meaning to get a timer for it).

its about staying in mantrol :sml1: call it big red

very nice

MalcolmX - Not sure if these are actually hybrids. just interesting observations for now ... the bumpy albino is from split bred to albino. example of splits in pic below, then pair up top is a wild caught male and my original albino female and is where the splits come from - sorry pics give an idea but not great. the aurea vary so much depending on environment, mood ... so on some aurea pics. albino and a split wild caught male (possibly same frog as paired up above) last two are splits. southern bells i had in the past were distinctively different. this is a raniformis i use to have.

another interesting trait ive seen in the l aurea. The males sometimes display a stripe similar to that of the southern bells/raniformis.

pretty sure it has bumps all the time as ive noticed this a couple of times when it was younger. then again that could be just dehydrated :dunno: he does sort of look shrivled up in that pic lol i would check but i sent him on a holiday recently. just been looking back at some old pics. thats a wild caught male - he has slight bumps. cant check him either - no longer kept here .

Has anyone seen Litoria aurea with bumps on the skin before? or any hybrid looking frogs for that matter? I have seen slightly raised bumbs/markings on L. aurea in the past, but the frog below has more than any I've seen before...more raniformis like. Maybe just part of the mutation but :dunno:

I put a large tadpole in my adult frog dispay tank the other week.

Even I got one :happy2: Thanks alot Caryl, and to anyone else involved