The Realm

I updated my wishlist and added Housermann Orchids. They have a rare bulbophyllum right now I would love to have in my collection. Another of the giant bad smelling kind that looks creepy.

Ok as per the title of this post. I'm very excited right now because I found some female frogs in my greenhouse! Chris has been on the look out for me but today I got some right here at home! The female I had I wasn't happy with because she was an ugly brown. I don't know how the color genes work on these frogs or even if there is a dominant "wild type" color. Seems these guys have as many color mutations in the wild as Rock Doves (city pigeons) do. Though I tend to think of the Blue Bar as the "wild" dominant color. I'm guessing the ugly brown is the wild type color in greenhouse frogs. Been searching for red females and was starting to think females are just brown and only males have colors. Well today I was moving plants around to clean things up. Well I saw a "huge" frog jump. Huge by greenhouse frog standards. So I proceeded to dismantle my Amorphophallus set up which if you guys haven't seen is like a mini forest. The "trees" are in scale with the frogs if they were humans. So the frogs have taken to living in there. I got some plastic cups left over from when I bought isopods and caught two of them. I was thrilled that one was red. My gosh they are so fast! One is red and the other is reddish brown. I wonder if the red is more common in my area? I would love to get some that look like color D or even F that is yellowish and have black eyes. Still what a score. Now I know females can be other colors than brown. And I'm starting to think my theory is correct that females have the two stripes down the sides. The ones in last post's photo are all males. I'm starting to think the ratio of males to females is badly skewed to males. That sucks. Kinda like nepenthes where it's 70% chance of a male. Here are some photos.



This is not a good pic and it's through foggy plastic. But this is the pretty red female. She's perfect as the new mate for little red male. I have decided I will take out the other male and female from their set up and just keep these as a pair of reds. I need them to make lovely babies. She might have eggs though so who knows what color the babies would be.



This is the other one. Better photo quality but you can't see her as well. She's red too but more on the brown side. Also she's a bit more warty which is pretty cool. She's super fat so I think she's definitely gravid (carrying eggs). Chris suggested I put them in separate enclosures so they have babies if they are carrying anything. That's a good idea except I don't have anything right now. So we will go out and look for cheap plastic bins. They have be be deep because these jump like crazy. So yes temporary set ups will do until I can figure out what to do. Joker, any advice on small temp set ups? As for my babies I lost two. But I feel like they were majorly replaced in a good way with these two pretty females. And now I need names for the male and the pretty female.

Ok here is a video on the babies.


https://youtu.be/XyCYKE4DF_s

Happy Father's Day to all you pet dads out there.
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