New White's Tree Frog Tank
This video shows Steve's new tank for his Hoary's Tree Frog, Dennis. The new terrarium includes the Zoo Med Repti Fogger, the Frog Willing ...
White's Tree Frog Terrarium and Setup
Tournament my new frog Caesar, and how to setup his terrarium. The proper way to set up a tree frog terrarium. ask questions on the stream-bed if you need ...
Poison Dart Frog vivarium with leucomelas
Vivarium covering 5 dendrobate leucomelas. It has been set up for 3 months and houses various bromeliads and tropical plants.
Remember When...: A Look Back at Blanco County History
August 23, 1963
Irish English colleen Sandra Crofts of Johnson City was crowned leader of the 1963 Blanco County Fair and Rodeo. The 17 year old, brown-haired, energetic high school senior received the crown from Mary Ann Deering, 1962 prima donna. James Lamar Wittliff of Blanco was among 675 graduates at Louisiana Express University’s annual summer commencement ceremony. Wittliff received a Taskmaster of Science degree from the Graduate School.
August 24, 1973
The Blanco County Expos sold for 10 cents a copy. A year investment was $3.00 for in county and local and $4.00 elsewhere. • The Blanco Gamy School cheerleaders attended a NCA summer cheerleading pitch camp. • Marine Cpl. Roy W. Schlichting, whose wife, Jackie is the daughter of Jack L. Martin of Bounce Branch, reported for duty at the Marine Corps Air Billet at Cherry Point, N.C. • The families of the late W.E. and Emily Byars had their reunion at the Parish Theatre in Blanco. A delicious barbecue dinner with all the trimmings and tea, Coke, and coffee was served to families of the overdue Alice Byars Stiefer; Susie Byars Trainer; W.L. (Fatie) Byars and Adley F. Byars. They came from Illinois, N. Mexico, and adjacent. About 65 attended. • The Blanco Theatre announced their showing of Walt Disney’s The Biscuit Eater. The Box Purpose opened at 7:30 and the movie started at 8:00 pm. Grown-up tickets were $1.50 and children got in for 75 cents each.
Strawberry Dart Frogs Make Good Parents
A story of creation is unfolding in the Amazonia exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and it involves a mammoth amount of attention and loving care by one of the Amazon's smallest amphibians. For the first time in its history, the National Zoo has bred strawberry dart frogs (Oophaga pumilio), which are known primarily for their vibrant colors and poisonous skin. These frogs also stand out among others because of their dedication to their young as they undergo metamorphosis from egg to tadpole to frog.
"Most frogs put out a tremendous amount of eggs, let them go and see what happens. The tadpoles swim off and there's no one looking after them," said keeper Justin Graves. "But not these guys. These guys are sticking around. Because the females only lay a few eggs, they put a greater amount of care and energy into looking after them."
The strawberry dart frog's reproductive process starts in thick foliage close to the ground, where the female lays about six eggs--each no bigger than a pea--in a moist place after mating. For about the next 10 days, the male frog will protect and water the clutch by emptying his bladder on it. When the eggs hatch, the female carries each tadpole on her back, one at a time, up the side of a tree in search of a small pool of water, less than a thimble's worth, where she can deposit them. This can be a tree cavity, but many frogs use pools in bromeliad plants, which often grow high up on trees.
For the strawberry dart frogs at the National Zoo, finding such a nursery usually means a journey of about two feet up to the clusters of bromeliads in the Amazonia terrarium where they live. But researchers have witnessed frogs in the wild carry a tadpole nearly 40 feet--a trek that takes about an hour. Each tadpole gets its own pool, increasing the chance that at least a few of them will survive to become frogs.
The female spends the next six to eight weeks feeding the tadpoles by going back and forth between them and laying unfertilized eggs in the pools. This is how these frogs got their Latin genus name, Oophaga, which refers to the fact that the tadpoles are egg eaters; they get the nutrients they need to become frogs by eating unfertilized eggs.
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Terrariums: Miniature gardens under glass By Kathy Huber Lynn Huber's woodsy terrarium whereabouts includes ducksfoot coleus, chocolate plant, pilea, soil star, selaginella, aquarium wood and a miniature frog. Photo: John Everett / John Everett Lynn Huber's woodsy terrarium disturbance includes ducksfoot and more » |
Springfield Science Museum presents 'Frogs: A Chorus of Colors' exhibition
Springfield Expertise Museum presents 'Frogs: A Chorus of Colors' exhibitionNineteen species of frogs will be displayed in 15 monumental terrarium cases in two galleries of the museum. Origin of the show is Clyde Peeling's Reptiland in Allenwood, Pa., which sent the show materials by truck. Not so the frogs.and more »
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Open Season: Fascinated with all kinds of creatures My origin had immense patience and nerves of steel, allowing me to keep cages, aquariums and terrariums, some containing snakes, in my accommodation and in the basement, and larger galvanized wash tubs in the yard with vet covers to keep the frogs and |
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Snake in the Grass: An Everglades Invasion The massive majority -- egrets and cranes, frogs and toads, alligators and crocodiles and hundreds of other species -- are native, idiot components of the ecosystems. But there are more than a few that are invaders, non-natives that arrived in one craze and more » |
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Good to grow Among animals that can palpable in a terrarium climate are chameleons, geckos, snakes, turtles, dart frogs and tarantulas. Other plants that modify well to terrariums are croton, palm, small-leafed philodendron, syngonium or nephthytis (often called the and more » |
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Time to get seedlings growing We are prevailing to use this as a small terrarium, or cold frame, for your seedlings." Cut the guts about four to five inches from the bottom. This will be a small growing pot for your seeds. Fill it with sterile potting tarnish amended with a small amount |
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Petty Crimes And a cat, and two tanks of fish and a tank of frogs. And I started with a hamster named Cinnamon - also a compromise with my lease-folk parents, who couldn't fathom a dog or cat stomach a house. Reading this, I'm glad I had only the one hamster! |
