1. AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE MANAGEMENT

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