Just some pictures of my pets at work...

[joão]

here are some of my pets that I take care at work

(Message edited by jennewt on January 06, 2007)

 

[jennifer]

You are lucky to work with such a bunch of nice animals! I edited your post to insert blank spaces between the photos... this way, they align verically, not horizontally.

 

[forrest]

those yoda looking frogs kind of scare me

 

[natashja]

i love the gargoyle frogs so beautiful what are they called ?.
lucky you

(Message edited by tashja2000 on January 07, 2007)

 

[cameron]

That fat frog looked really funny...in a good way! You have quite a few critters to take care of. Wow!

 

[danny]

Those frogs scare me

(Message edited by damien on January 07, 2007)

 

[susan]

The frogs make me think of someone who was really fat - lost their weight and now they have heaps of excess skin hehehe. Is the bottom pic of a morphing frog or something?? never seen anything like it.

 

[chris]

Hi Joao,
You are so lucky to be able to
work with a great variety of
animals.
You don't wish to swap jobs with
me do you?
Some people get all the good jobs!!!
Cheers,
Chris.

 

[cameron]

The last pic is a species of aquatic toad that I see at aquariums all of the time. It is adult. You need to watch a video on how the tadpoles grow into frogs. They live in holes of the mothers back!

 

[jennifer]

You are mostly right, Cameron. The last frog pic is Xenopus laevis. It is an adult, and they are common in aquariums. The tadpoles of this species do NOT live on their mother's back, that is another species, called Pipa pipa. Xenopus lay their eggs in the usual manner for frogs.

 

[annmarie]

Wow, you have a lot of nice monsters to help. What sort of frog is that with the chukny toes and a "brow ridge"?

I need to convince the people where I work at to have more amphibians besides Amazon frogs and our special Water Quality Lab Newts.I am loving your axolotl and Caecilian! Fun job?

 

[mary]

awesome creatures- was that a seal too?

 

[morrissey]

I can't believe it!
Wonderful!

 

[nya]

I have 2 Xenopus Toads aswell!!!

You really are lucky to have so many different species.

 

[lana]

i have never seen anything like the cute little thing in the last pic, it looks a bit only a bit like an axolotl!!!
I think all them animals are cute though

 

[lana]

its legs mainly

 

[sherri]

All of them are absolutely adorable!! You are so lucky, Joao!! How did you manage to get that job? What qualifications/experience do you have?

 

[lana]

what is the thing in the 5th picture?
and what kind of job is it?

 

[joão]

wow...thankx al you guys...well the animals are from top to bottom, axolotls, bombina orientalis, Caecilians,Cynops orientalis,Litoria caerulea,Pipa Parva,Pleurodeles waltl,Rana perezi,Taricha Granulosa,tiger salamander,a sea lion,and Xenopus laevis. I have more nice animals on my care including fishes, but I´´l try to post some new pictures later.
As for my work, yes I´´m a lucky guy, I work in a public aquarium I got this job cause this aquarium did not have amphibians, so I went there show them my project for an amphibian room, it took me 8 months working there as a voluntary, so they could belive in my capacities, cause I did not study biology, I´´m a sound engineer, that love´´s this animals, well I study a lot with my own pets at home and I also did some study in herpetology, and done a lot of reading. well now I have my amphibian room and I´´m writing articles on amphibians to famous magazines in portugal.

 

[annmarie]

I work in a public aquarium too

We do not currently have some many cool amphibians tho. I am trying to get them doing a freshwater shrimp room. Hopefully Iwill have the same luck as you! Congratulations!