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AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE MANAGEMENT

AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE MANAGEMENT. General Considerations. Habitat Food Regulation. Vivarium. soil or peat water – think fish dechlorinate filter temperature shelter. FOOD. infusoria – babies earthworms blood worms Drosophila crickets mice. CITES.

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AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE MANAGEMENT

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  1. AMPHIBIAN & REPTILEMANAGEMENT

  2. General Considerations • Habitat • Food • Regulation

  3. Vivarium • soil or peat • water – think fish • dechlorinate • filter • temperature • shelter

  4. FOOD • infusoria – babies • earthworms • blood worms • Drosophila • crickets • mice

  5. CITES • Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora • http://www.cites.org/ • ~5000 animal species • ~28,000 plant species

  6. AMPHIBIANS • smooth, moist, glandular skin • most species absorb water through skin • some species breath through skin • must spend part of life in water • world – 4780 species • U. S. – 230 species

  7. AMPHIBIANS • frogs • toads • newts • salamanders • caecilians

  8. FROGS • spend most or all of life in water • green frog • Rana clamitans

  9. FROGS • green tree frog – Hyla cineria

  10. TOADS • develop in water • spend later life on land American toad – Bufo americanus americanus

  11. NEWTS • spend life in water or marshy areas

  12. red spotted newt – Eastern newt Notophthalmus viridescens – easy to keep

  13. SALAMANDERS • about 320 species • 2 to 70 inches in length

  14. fire salamander – easy to keep

  15. axolotl - albino

  16. axolotl - gold

  17. tiger salamander “terrestrial” easy to keep

  18. caecilians tropical live underground 1 inch to 1.5 meters

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