Basti Family and a couple Instagram Videos

Basti Family Photos

Top is mom and dad and the bottom two photos show the diversity in offspring. Love these guys!

Mom, dad, and kiddo.

Closeup of mom.

Caught dad calling.

Bastimentos FS Babies

I love the diversity in the 1st round of fine spot Basti babies. One has lots of tiny spots, one has slightly random scattered spots, and then there's this guy with almost no spots.

FS Basti Baby

The FS Basti kids have been coming along nicely. As bold as they are throughout the day, when the camera comes out they disappear, so I'm lucky to get the occasional shot. This one wasn't too bad and, though the flash washes out the red, you can still see the fine spots breeding true. Possibly my favorite frogs to date.

Mother's Day Tribute

Here's a little ode to some of the gorgeous girls in my collection.

Mama Cristo whose babies are even better looking than her

Scarface Cristo is a devoted mom

One of the chubby toad girls

Gorgeous hopeful CDA girl. Not a peep in 1 1/2 years and very alluring to her male companion

Though the Salt Creek girls are hard to tell apart, they are amazing moms

Such devotion!

Slow and steady wins the race for the pretty popa girls

Though mama Basti doesn't much like her photo taken, she is one fantastic mom

This Grannie girl isn't very interested in her suitor, but hopefully age will change that

Sirensis lovebirds

This little Darkland female is on her way home to meet her new mate. Thank you Gabe, Ed, Chris, and of course Eric M!

A Few Fun Photos From the Frog Room

Cayo de Agua

Lit up to show those brilliant yellow bellys

Salt Creek

Fine Spot Bastimentos Baby scaling the glass

Cristobal kid

Tests, tests, and more tests - Pumilio Bastimentos red and Loma Estrella

I took the new red Basti and Loma Estrella in for tests on Monday. These were the frogs I was most worried about in the new set as the Basti had a questionable worm in the first round of tests and the Lomas weren't even testable. All results were negative. I don't know if it was the Panacur or that these frogs never had anything parasitic. I may never know. Either way, I'm a bit relieved. All frogs went into planted temp tubs and will get another round of tests before moving into permanent homes.
Here are a couple rudimentary photos for now.
 

 

Bastimentos

L.E. #1

L.E. #2

L.E. #2

Here We Go Again

I can't help but sing the chorus to an old Shelter tune while posting this blog. Unfortunately, everyone from the recent shipment came back from the vet with nasties. Ugh! The Rambala had Crypto, the Rio Branco had nematodes, the red Bastimentos female had some crazy sharp toothed worm that our vet couldn't even identify, and the Loma's are impacted and bloated. Wow! Dr. Frye to the rescue. I hope we can get past this, but I'm a bit worried about a few of these kids!

 

Currently in the Mail

Thanks Marcus!

Baby Shots

Just when I was about to give up... I found this in the BFS viv this morning. Without seeing any tads in the broms, or feeding from the mom, I thought that this clutch had just been abandoned. Super excited to find this little one!

And this one.

One of the recent BSC froglets

Popa baby

Cristo kid

Microcosm 2013

My fantastic fiance outdid himself once again when he sent me to this year's Microcosm event as an early birthday gift.

The lectures were fascinating and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting, and talking to, so many like minded hobbyists. Thank you to Steve Waldron and Darcy Barry for driving me to Balboa Park on Saturday and of course to long-time friend Steve Sotelo for rides, food, and generally keeping me entertained outside of the conference. The fried pickles and beignets at Craft and Commerce were truly phenomenal.

Porto Visto - The hotel where we stayed

My room

 

Amazing temps while I was there

Of course I had to bring home a few trip souvenirs and my bounty included the following:

Plants from Black Jungle

- Piper Crocatum

- Ficus villosa

- Noid epiphytic fern

- Several bromeliads

Orchids from Andy's Orchids

- Dryadella Albicans

- Pleurothallis Peroniacephala

- Pleurothallis Dodsonii

- Pleurothallis Diminuta

- Scaphosepalum Medinae

- Liparis Caespitosa

- Bulbophyllum Alagense

- Moss with noid epiphytic fern

Shopping at the booth for Andy's Orchids

Ceramic hides/breeding sites from Ron Skylstad. I call them Ron Pods

Oophaga Pumilio Bastimentos from Adam Butt

Oophaga Sylvatica Paru from Ruprecht Wiedemeyer