Thursday, December 29, 2005
I believe that Leopardy is a girl... seems to have the bump in back over her cloaca that serves as ovipositor on female frogs. I still occassionally hear singing, but am uncertain which of the frogs is doing it! So that would make, if I am correct, three females and two male froglets. Buggy-Eyes, Zeyonda, and Leopardy being the females and Spotless and Spotty the boys. They could prove me wrong, they are still quite small and it is hard to see much detail. None of the froglets have black arms, but Spotty's arms are a good deal darker than those of the other frogs.
Friday, December 16, 2005
chirp chirp chirp
I hear singing! It appeared to be coming from Spotless, as he was the only one not hiding and as soon as he saw me walk past the tank, the chirping stopped and he ran away to hide. All of the frogs are still a little skittish, but seem to be getting more used to my presence. They know when I turn off the filter and make a tapping sound that it's time to eat. I have started feeding them twice a day again, but much much less at a time. I am cleaning the tank whenever I think of it, and doing a partial water change once a week. I can't imagine how messy the tank will get when they are big frogs!
I do have some recent photos to share:
Zeyonda (top) and Spotty. You can't really tell in this photo, but Zeyonda has really grown to be a bit larger than Spotty now.
Spotless in the food dish (never mind that brown algae - yuck!)
Leopardy peeking out (he is still the most shy of all five froglets)
And two photos of Buggy-Eyes, just because she is a camera hound :)
first with a very full belly (see the lump?)
and her typical standing pose in the plants
I do have some recent photos to share:
Zeyonda (top) and Spotty. You can't really tell in this photo, but Zeyonda has really grown to be a bit larger than Spotty now.
Spotless in the food dish (never mind that brown algae - yuck!)
Leopardy peeking out (he is still the most shy of all five froglets)
And two photos of Buggy-Eyes, just because she is a camera hound :)
first with a very full belly (see the lump?)
and her typical standing pose in the plants
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Spotty is a boy...
I think Spotty is a boy. Not real sure, but now Zeyonda has grown larger than him, and he has dark arms and hands (sometimes). Zeyonda and Buggy-Eyes I am certain are girls, but they might suprise me some day! They are still quite small. The two new guys I still think are boys, but they do not have the darker hands and arms that Spotty sometimes has, and they are big and fat like Buggy-Eyes. I have new photos I need to crop and upload, hopefully will do that later today!
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