Western NC

Sorry if this is not the right place

Western NC salamander or newt or something

There’s currently only bladder snails in the water section but I plan to add cherry shrimp and pink ramshorn snails after a few more weeks.

I’m using the TWINSTAR sm series light

Plant list: rotala coin leaf
Rotala blood red
Lilaeopsis mauritiana
Java fern(normal type I think😭)
Forgot the exact species but some type of
Echinodorus
Bucephalandra Sp. forgot the exact species
Java moss
Dwarf water lettuce
Giant duckweed
Salvinia cuculatta

Ignore the band practice noises in the distance. Idk if this is even a forge...

This is my African dwarf frog kermit. Kermit is a male. For those who don’t know heres an explanation of what African dwarf frogs are: african dwarf frogs, most of the time in the pet trade the congo dwarf clawed frog (hymenochirus boettgeri) but also sometimes the western dwarf clawed frog (hymenochirus curtipes) there are also the not kept eastern dwarf clawed frog (Hymenochirus boulengeri) or the gaboon dwarf clawed frog (mymenochirus feae)are a genus of frogs in the pipidae family. Thwy are one of the only frog species that is fully aquatic and can die within 15 minutes if its taken out. They are found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and east to the Central African Republic and to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. They live in warm slow moving freshwater habitats like the congo basin and lowland rainforest pools. In tge pet trade they are often mistreated. Most commonly being kept in small tubs usually used for pet transport and sold as low maintenance pets with colorful gravel and fake plants. A humane setup would be a minimum 15 gallon tank with real plants, gravel or sand and driftwood and some rocks. They eat insects larvae, large plankton and even tiny fish or shrimp if they can catch them. In captivity a healthy diet would consist of high quality frog pellets (my personal preference being tetra repto frog granules) and frozen food (best being artemia and glassworms. AVOID BLOODWORMS AT ALL COSTS). When feeding pellets always first dip them in water until they are fully hydrated otherwise they’ll hydrate inside the frogs belly and bloat it. Feed them every 2 days and switch from dry to frozen food every feeding day in a dry-frozen-dry-frozen pattern. So that was my guide. As for kermit he shares his tank with a female called big lois and another male called spots. Kermit himself is a hymerochirus boettgeri.

Cool little visitor

I really enjoy trades, I traded some of my juvenile Chinese firebelly newts for some juvenile alpine newts.

I tried to get it out with a stick, but ended up pushing it in further sorry :/

Original illustration by Able6 - All Rights Rsvd

Anyone else have an attention hog or is it just me? 🙃 He's just always gotta be right in the middle of everything

This is Pippen. I got him as a juvenile on Valentine's day. I love him.

I found these guys while flipping logs in the woods near some wetlands! (Ithaca NY)