1. AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE MANAGEMENT

2. General Considerations
Habitat
Food
Regulation

3. Vivarium soil or peat water – think fish shelter 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
~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