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Post by Killian on Dec 20, 2005 13:12:54 GMT
Its gone a bit quiet round here, which I suppose is explained by the fact that most of our animals are hibernating, so what has everyone planed for the new year? any new species planned, new vivariums? let us know.
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morbid
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Post by morbid on Dec 20, 2005 14:29:52 GMT
I´m planning on building my first outdoorvivarium. And probably getting Bufo viridis.
Hopefully the H.arboreas and the B. viridis will go together in the outdoorviv..
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Post by willj on Dec 20, 2005 18:30:34 GMT
i'm going to try a second outdoor vivaria. i have a large fishtank and i think i'll try to put it on it's side and make a palludarium like set up wich will be easy to move inside.
i've also thought about making an outdoor vivarium for my pachytriton labiatus (i'll move them inside in the winter of course) to see if they enjoy that.
i'd also like to make a european outdoor vivaria to go next to my american one. If i did it would have my mesotriton alpestris in it. and you never know i might even get a lizard species!
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Post by Pollywog on Dec 20, 2005 22:23:55 GMT
I've dug out a space ready for building some outdoor holding enclosures next year, I'm just waiting over the winter as the rain and floods come and go as I'm on a hard clay soil and want to make sure the area drains away well.
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Post by willj on Dec 21, 2005 10:49:34 GMT
do you know which species you'll put outside?
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Post by Pollywog on Dec 21, 2005 10:58:12 GMT
There will be a few enclosures mainly for holding import stock such as Salamandra, Bufo viridis, Bombina, anything that comes in from Europe to save me a bit of tank space indoors.
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Post by willj on Dec 21, 2005 11:00:18 GMT
oh right. good luck with them! i've only had mine for a month or two now, but it's been very rewarding so far!
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Post by Killian on Dec 21, 2005 21:48:02 GMT
I am pretty much happy with my collection as it is. I am planning on getting some Hyla arborea for my greenhouse at some stage (which is what I built it for in the first place) I am hoping for some breeding succes next year from my fire bellies, marbled newts, red spotted newts, midwife toads and Russian green toads. I maybe lucky enough to have my green lizards breed also!
Do keep us updated on all your new vivariums and post some pics when you can!
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Post by willj on Dec 22, 2005 9:55:47 GMT
are you going to have any caudates in your greenhouse?
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Post by Killian on Dec 22, 2005 14:08:58 GMT
No, Just frogs and toads, Caudates may eat tadpoles plus it gets a bit warm in there for them!
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Post by althepalme on Jan 19, 2006 15:30:15 GMT
i am planning on making an outdoor vivaria for a small colony of m. a. alpestris. a largish enclose with about a third of it in water since the alpestris are quite aquatic. once the small colony has grown im planning on releasing a few tadpoles into my garden pond so after a few years i will hopfully have a nice sized colony of the alpestris roaming around.
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phil
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Post by phil on Jan 19, 2006 18:10:34 GMT
no you won't alex, no non native amphibians shall be released into our garden pond. it's illegal and we already have colonies of native newts living in there
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Post by Killian on Jan 19, 2006 19:56:25 GMT
yeah not a good idea to release non native species. why dont you get some native species breed them and release their young instead? otherwise you would have to secure your whole garden if you want a population in your garden.
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Post by althepalme on Jan 19, 2006 21:35:25 GMT
well we already have palmate newts and common newts that breed freely in our pond, but we have to get rid of the koi carp and blue orfs since they eat all of the larvae or the majority of it any way. but we still have a big population of the newts and we must have a massive population of common frogs the other day my dad found at least 30 think they're getting ready for spring.
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