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Re: Cute little threatened metamorphs
sweet Evan! thats pretty cool that your doing that! .....how in the world did you find eggs in a snow storm?
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Re: Cute little threatened metamorphs
Congrats! What a cutie, although soooo small. Is the plan to try and breed these guys in captivity or eventually release or just display animals?
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Re: Cute little threatened metamorphs
Evan,
That is awsome man. It must be a great feeling to be a part of that, and help a threatened species to bounce back. Hopefully, you can get plenty hatching, and possibly introduce some to some untainted waterways in the future.
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Re: Cute little threatened metamorphs
Originally Posted by reediculous
sweet Evan! thats pretty cool that your doing that! .....how in the world did you find eggs in a snow storm?
It wasn't a blizzard, just a small storm. These frogs breed very early in the season, as soon as air temps are in the 50s and it is sunny, so getting snow after spawning has occured isn't that abnormal. The water temp was about 40 degrees when we collected.... Brrr!!!
Originally Posted by tigerlily
Congrats! What a cutie, although soooo small. Is the plan to try and breed these guys in captivity or eventually release or just display animals?
This group will just be on exhibit to help raise awareness of the plight of the species, but in the future we may be able to raise some up to large tadpoles or even metamorphs for re-release. The Utah DWR is currently doing studies to determine the survival rate of tadpoles that are raised in semi-captive conditions, so hopefully that will go well, and we can be a part of helping raise the breeding population of the species in certain reserve areas.
-Evan
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Re: Cute little threatened metamorphs
Originally Posted by muddoc
Evan,
That is awsome man. It must be a great feeling to be a part of that, and help a threatened species to bounce back. Hopefully, you can get plenty hatching, and possibly introduce some to some untainted waterways in the future.
Thanks Tim! It really has been a treat to be able to work with all the threatened and sensitive native species we have. I'm surprised how few visitors even know we have these animals in Utah. Most people know the tropical exotic animals we have on exhibit better than the ones in their own back yard.
-Evan
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Re: Cute little threatened metamorphs
Wow; that is awesome. I love frogs; they were my first herp love, and they are such cool little environmental barometers. It is awesome to rescue eggs, no? A few years ago I took in some wood frog eggs from a puddle (vernal pool) in the woods that was drying up; a day after I took them, the puddle was bone dry. I kept them in naturalistic conditions until they morphed, and thn released them.
It is a great feeling to help froggies.
-Jen. Back in the hobby after a hiatus!
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