{"id":928,"date":"2006-05-25T20:33:07","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T04:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/?p=928"},"modified":"2006-05-25T20:40:27","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T04:40:27","slug":"im-in-a-frog-buying-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"I’m in a frog-buying mood"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ll get to the frogs in a moment. First, I wanted to ask you guys why my hit counter is going nuts with searches for this image:<\/p>\n

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Billy Munster all grown up, you say? No, it’s Justin Theroux<\/a>, and he’s obviously supposed to be a bad boy. Aaaah, I get it: Theroux will be playing Detective Larry Zito in Michael Mann’s upcoming movie version of Miami Vice<\/em><\/a>. Karen and I saw a trailer for Vice<\/em> last weekend, when we saw The Da Vinci Code<\/em>. Looks good, although if I were creating a Vice<\/em> trailer, I would have placed Gong Li front and center.<\/p>\n

Mmmmm. Gong Li<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Back to the frogs we want to buy. This is kinda sorta my father’s day present. If Karen gets to keep 40 tarantulas, I should be allowed to buy six more dart frogs. It’s only fair.<\/p>\n

Pix below the cut.<\/p>\n

We will probably buy from Herpetologic.net<\/a>, since they have everything we want at reasonable prices. I hope they don’t mind if I pinch a few photos (especially if I drop a few hundred dollars on them for frogs).<\/p>\n

First and foremost, I want my leucs:<\/p>\n

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Dendrobates leucomelas<\/em>, sometimes called the “bumblebee frog,” an arboreal species with a beautiful trill originally from British Guyana.<\/p>\n

I should mention that most if not all frogs bought and sold in this hobby are captive bred. Wild harvest is discouraged, since some of these species may be endangered. They are threatened far more by habitat destruction than by hobbyists.<\/p>\n

Leucs are big, hardy, and extroverted. Other dart frogs are more colorful (check out the Herpetologic.net page under frogs\/availability), but many are shy.<\/p>\n

Speaking of colorful, Karen wants a pair of citronellas:<\/p>\n

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Dendrobates tinctorius<\/em>, Citronella morph. Here’s another photo.<\/a><\/p>\n

And a pair of pumilios:<\/p>\n

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Dendrobates pumilio<\/em>, from Panama. Here’s a great closeup.<\/a><\/p>\n

According to Karen, the females lay unfertilized eggs for their tadpoles to eat. Until folks discovered this, they had a devil of a time captive breeding this species. Now, that’s one fine mama frog!<\/p>\n

The leucs and the citronellas ought to get along with our azureus<\/a>, but we’re not sure about the pumilios. Maybe we’ll keep a separate tank at home for a change. Just have to keep the evil cats away.<\/p>\n

In case you’re scratching your head, unable to understand the fascination of these little dudes, you need to spend some time around them to understand. They have personality to burn. They’re aware of their keepers and they’re not shy. They are also horny little bastards. Inevitably, they save up all their lovemaking for the five-year-olds with fundamentalist Christian parents.<\/p>\n

“They’re, um, wrestling<\/em>, Jebediah. For, um, exercise<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ll get to the frogs in a moment. First, I wanted to ask you guys why my hit counter is going nuts with searches for this image: Billy Munster all grown up, you say? No, it’s Justin Theroux, and he’s obviously supposed to be a bad boy. Aaaah, I get it: Theroux will be playing… Continue Reading I’m in a frog-buying mood<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-the-movies","category-critter-foo","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}