Thursday 12 April 2012

Overjoyed!!!

After sooo many years I finally have some amazing news, the wild caught cobalt's have been producing eggs constantly but the tadpoles have either been dying or morphing to frog with a condition known as SLS or spindly leg syndrome, which means they have to be put down anyway. Well after years and years of tweaking we finally have a positive result. This is Seven, our very first successful tadpole:


He will be out of the water very soon and is already using his legs to support himself. So so happy right now I think I may explode.

Sunday 8 April 2012

Vivarium update

I've had my dart tanks for a while now and while some have been planted for almost 2 years others I have only put together in the last 6 months i just thought i throw up a pictorial to show them off. So here they are:

About 8 weeks old, houses 8 Hyloxalus azureiventris

The biggest tank at just under 36 inch wide, houses a wild caught pair of tinctorius cobalts

Left side:

Right side:

About 4 weeks old, houses a wild caught pair of tinctorius powder blues

About 10 weeks, old houses 4 tinctorius azureus

About 14 weeks old, houses 3 Leucomelas

About 6 weeks old,  houses 2 tinctorius citronella

One of the oldest tanks at around 12months, houses 10+ anthonyi

This one is about 12 weeks in and houses a pair of red splash backs

And lately this one hasnt changed much in about 2 years and houses a wild caught pair of tinctorius ole marie

Some of them haven't even started growing in and some are very well established, I do admit I'm not happy with some of them and will be adding to them when I can. If I remember I'll revisit in about 6 months time and have a look at the changes.