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Post by treefrog on Sept 3, 2006 13:14:37 GMT -5
Hi, my name is Mathieu and I'm 24. I live in Montréal QUEBEC and study in ecology. I'm pretty new to carnivorous plants but I've been building tropical terrariums for a long time. I love creating tropicals habitats were I can watch all my favourite orchids, ferns, bromeliads with my small treefrogs and dendrobates. My main interest in carnivorous plants are the tropicals one; mostly nepenthes, pinguicula and the awesome UTRICULARIA that I just discover. Well, that's about it, I hope to have fun with you all.
Best regards
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jimscott
Seedling
Je n'aime pas 'CITES'!
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Post by jimscott on Sept 3, 2006 16:20:20 GMT -5
Welcome to OCPS! I was just on CPUK and was about to shoot you a PM with an OCPS link, but you're already here!
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Post by lloyd on Sept 3, 2006 17:15:48 GMT -5
Welcome Treefrog, I've always wanted to have some frogs wandering around in my terrariums. I was worried that the insects (crickets?) used for frog food would eat my plants. How do you do it? Are there concerns if the terrarium gets too hot or cold? Lloyd
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Post by tom on Sept 3, 2006 18:30:26 GMT -5
Hi Mathieu, got an e-mail from you today and see you already signed up by the same occasion on OCPS, welcome! We are sharing the same past of study in ecology, great to see another one in Looking forward your posts! PS I should answer your e-mail by tomorrow!
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Post by treefrog on Sept 3, 2006 22:25:48 GMT -5
Hi everyone, about the frogs, I think the best species are darts frogs (Dendrobates sp.) or Mantella as they eat flightless fruitfly (and your plants will too), for the temperature, it is a matter of which species of frog you choose as some species can handle cold temperature and other quite warm one. Forget about crickets with the CP as they will eat your plant (I have nepenthes alata full of crickets bites). Also, for the smaller frogs I mentionned, never put plants with Pitcher as they could become CP prey....
Hi Tom, I'm waiting for your mail and glad to see that you are an ecologist too.
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Post by mabudon on Sept 4, 2006 7:51:11 GMT -5
Hey Mathieu, glad to see another member, one who has already acquired the MADNESS that is CP-ing... Looking forward to seeing some pics of your setups and hearing about your own CP sucesses
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Post by treefrog on Sept 4, 2006 8:51:23 GMT -5
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Post by tom on Sept 4, 2006 15:28:10 GMT -5
It seems that your pictures are not working...
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Post by Flytrap on Sept 4, 2006 15:47:40 GMT -5
Oh...this is wonderful! Another treefrog lover Bienvenue to OCPS and looking forward to more of your great photos and CP/TREEfrog talk from Hyla regilla on the westcoast.
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Post by treefrog on Sept 4, 2006 16:20:22 GMT -5
He he If you want treefrog picture...I have tons, those are some baby I raise Red eye Amazonian milk frog Hourglass tree frog Actually I have many many more species and a lot of darts
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Post by Flytrap on Sept 4, 2006 16:44:24 GMT -5
I used to visit the old herpetology shows over on the westcoast, and had a few cuban treefrogs at one time (most were stow aways on bromeliad shipments from a friend's nursery). Then work, family and career took me away from Canada, so I had to give everything away, including my gray treefrogs (Hyla versicolour). But once in awhile, I'd take my kids to visit the Vancouver Aquarium's Amazon rainforest exhibit, where another former CP collector (and herpetologist) was the managing caretaker....(maybe it's time I give him a shout again after all these years) Now that I see you're just as crazy as I was... do you want to trade some CPs for a few of your treefrogs? I've got a real decent collection of CPs. We can PM each other on the details if you're keen. David
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Post by barvinok on Sept 4, 2006 18:29:58 GMT -5
Amazing set up , makes me think about converting my fish tank into terrarium
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Post by Syble on Sept 4, 2006 19:59:36 GMT -5
Glad to see that you've found your way to the forum. Just curious as to how you found out about it? We're trying to get the word out again Love the frogs, I had 2 thriving comunities at one point, green tree frogs, goldens, red reed frogs, firebelly toads and newts, and a couple mantellas of some sort, they were unidentified. Biggest problem for me with them was that there was no where to get new frogs, most of the ones that I got were mix ups and I just happened to have been able to snach them up before others did. I have some work to do on my grow stand first, but will be setting my tanks back up, then the hunt will begin agian! Thanks, Sib
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Post by treefrog on Sept 4, 2006 20:49:26 GMT -5
Its nice to see that there is a lot of frog lover in this forum. I love reed frog but I've find they are quite sensitive animals.
I produce around 1500or more frogs a year and I think that me and my girlfriend are the biggest frog breeder in Canada. We have a nice collection of treefrog: -Agalychnis callydryas (red eye treefrog) -Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis (tiger leg treefrog) -Phyllomedusa tomopterna (tiger stripe treefrog) -Big eye tree frog (Leptopelis sp.) -Hyla ebraccata (Hourglass treefrog) -Hyla leucophyllata (clown treefrog) -Hyla marmorata (mossy treefrog) -Mantella viridis (green mantella) -A lot of dendrobates -and a lot of other treefrog I forgot right now
I would love to be able to trade frogs for carnivorous plants but the problems is the shipping because it cost nearly 80$ to ship a box of live animals unless you are in Quebec or Ontaria. By the way, right now I have eggs of Big eye tree frogs that I'm sure could ship for quite cheap everywhere in canada as the eggs are very bold and can travel without problems. This species of big eye come from Tanzania and from my point of view is one of the coolest frog as you can manipulate it without problems (eveb kids), very easy to feed and very active.
Take care Math
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Post by treefrog on Sept 4, 2006 20:50:58 GMT -5
Flytrap, by the way, were you the one travelling to Malaysia. If so, in which part of Malaysia did you work? I've lived in Kuala Lumpur for 3 years when I was 16.
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