The Realm

I have been busy again that is why I have been missing. I'm having so much fun raising frogs. I have ordered tadpoles of Anothony's Dart Frog - Epipedobates anthonyi from the Santa Isabella region. The name gets shortened to Santas which is ironic because the are a red and green frog. But to me the stripes look white not green. Here is a video of what they sound like and this is the reason I had to have them.


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I'm not a fan of their looks. Yeah they're cute and small and colorful. But the look doesn't do it for me. But that call. Oh man. And they are diurnal so to have them singing for me during the day as I do things around the house would be so lovely and relaxing. I have NEVER ordered tadpoles or frogs in the mail. I must say I'm nervous. I have ordered bugs and chicks and that's about it I think for live animals. They are supposed to be easy and a good beginner dart/arrow frog. The advantages to buying as tadpoles are they are much cheaper than buying frogs. I also get more time to set up the terrarium which I have yet to buy. I found a guy on Morph Market that had a great package of 10 + tadpoles but he also throws in dwarf white isopods (we all know I needed those for bioactive), spring tails, tadpole food and random plant cuttings. To me that makes it totally worth it for the price of the tadpoles and the overnight air ticket. They are coming FedEx. They should arrive tomorrow and I'll definitely be here waiting. Today is nice and overcast which makes this be "cooler". I hope tomorrow it will be overcast or raining lightly for even cooler weather for this delivery.

My own greenhouse frogs are doing well. Today I finally have my male isolated and added in that new red female I had caught. They both seem to have very nice personalities being colorful and active at night. I have finally named him. His name is Michigan after the Looney Tunes singing frog since singing frogs are what I like. I'm thinking of naming the female Honey because he sings the song "Hello my baby, Hello my honey." But not totally sure about that. I had some old SpongeBob aquarium hides from when I used to have fish. She chose the Krusty Krab so that's what I gave them. Everyone loves that Krusty Krab so I'm going to have to order more of those as they are a big hit. Looks like Mr.s Krab's restaurant is now a franchise in my house.

My videos for greenhouse frogs are kind of becoming popular. No one keeps these or at least talks about them. Seems I'm the first and people are already coming to me for advice. I wonder if there is a market for these things. Well, I'm still learning and don't feel qualified yet to give advice, but I think in a year I should have the basics figured out. So far I think the care is the same as dart frogs and the breeding even easier because no tadpole stage. Although the froglets are super tiny and that can be hard. I think they are getting the fruit flies down but they are the same size. I had bad luck with my culture of springtails and lost them all for a variety of reasons including beginner errors. Even though I thought I read everything mistakes were still made. I also got them in a container that wasn't the best. I'm so glad this guy is sending me springtails. I ordered tropical pinks and enough survived the trip that I hope those will establish a colony I can use as feeders and bioactive too. And I want those Terrible Mint frogs too eventually. Phyllobates terribilis mint.

I'm also waiting on a very special order of isopods Cubaris Murina Papaya. They are a peach colored isopod with red eyes that look like little trilobites. But I had some trouble with the seller. They are also supposed to come tomorrow. I have their box almost set up and ready to go. I made some mistakes with my isopods too but they're way more forgiving than springtails. But I'll talk about that in some other post. Just checked the tracking. They're in Orlando. That's only an hour away. So close but says they'll come tomorrow. WHY? I hate that. Just send them now it's so darn close! I hate that about shipping.

Ok so, I review lights on youtube by a company called Sansi. They are top notch quality lights for plants as well as household. I just got a garage light that has completely impressed me. I will review that soon. So now I'm getting other companies asking me to review stuff that's not even what's on my channel. And I also get scammers who I sometimes yank around to waste their time. But I got an email yesterday that I'm not sure if it's legit. I'd like to think it is. It's from Ubisoft. You guys know that's a pretty big video game company. They wanted me to test the new Far Cry 6. Well yes if this is the case I'd like that because they'd say they'd pay me so long as I put up a video minimum of 5 minutes. The extension on the return address was ubisoft dot com so I know it wasn't a fake. I don't think it is but I'm still hesitant to click the link. I get a lot of fake paypal which I know are fake because 1, they send it to a email that doesn't even use paypal and 2 the url is never from paypal. I report those and paypal has taken some of them down which is hilarious to me. You guys know how good I am at getting jerks and idiots banned. Just look at the track record on DA with idots like borg queen. Anway, I'm getting off topic. If this is legit I'd like to do it other than one thing. I have a feeling it's on PC. I'm not a PC gamer. I hate PC games. I hate keyboards. I'm a console gamer. I want to use a controller. I don't know I have to look into this later on. Not today as I'm not feeling well.

I've been having up and down days with my healthy. I'm always in good spirits. Almost nothing gets me down in life. But physical is another matter. So it's like one day I have good energy and I get lots of stuff accomplished. And then the next day I have no energy and can't move. Those days I end up gaming. I'm really enjoying Conan Exiles on PS4. I am almost done building the Jurassic Park Visitor Center. I've had a few building issues that it isn't quite right but it's amazing still. I want to try to build other things in this game as well. I'm playing as Solan and I have a pet "shoebill" that I have named Kevin. She's pink like a flamingo. I hope to share screen caps or videos of that soon.
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