pics of wild caught acanthurus acanthurus

[nzdragons]

hi, these are some pics of my ackies. they are wild caught from the pilbara region of western australia. they are still only youngsters, at about 45cm total length. they are all acanthurus acanthurus including the yellow male

http://groups.msn.com/nzdragons

thought you all might be interested to see some of the colour variation in so called "red" ackies

can also see a few pics of my beardies etc.

 

[Karen Hulvey]

Those monitors are very nice. While I like the monitors, I especially like the frogs. That White's tree frog (I think ya'll call them green tree frogs??) is a beauty. Do you see many white-lipped tree frogs?

Oh and welcome. Post many pictures. We love pictures, especially pictures from field herping in Australia which is any Herper's DREAM!

 

[nzdragons]

Hi Karen,
The pics of the white's are of a female that i have. She is actually a bit different to most Australian Whiltes as she is from the Kimberly. Whites form this area are generally much more orange in colour than the eastern counterparts. She also has bright orange on her thighs instead of the reddy purple. We dont get the white lip tree forgs round here as I live in Perth. I will hopefully be going to get some Litoria splendida over the weekend, and will post some pics of them if I do. I dont know if you have seen them before as I dont think they are available outside of Australia, but in my opinion they are probably amongst the most beatiful tree frogs.

 

[SHvar]

Nice pictures, compared to whats called yellow ackies all of those..

Are very red, plus the biggest difference with them, large tail spines. Here are mine. Note mine are dirty they are always digging.

This picture is a few months or so old at least, that beardie is now 22 inches, just turned 18 months old. The female acanthurus is now 21.5 inches.

This was taken 1 foot underground months ago, I dug her up too soon.

123 days later.

36 hours old, right out of the incubator.

13 days old, 11.5 days after the last picture, already 2 inches of growth, the next day one even ate its first pinky mouse.

Thought Id post this one, my flavi-argus.

 

[Reptileking636]

all of them are very nice, i really like the argus.

 

[SHvar]

Hes a flavi-argus cross..

He was given to me by someone who bought him from a supposed "breeder" as a female. In reality he was an extra male that the person tried to intro to a larger male when they bought him as a female. In the photo hes dirty, heres a cleaner pic, look at the colors, argus are dull, with dark stripes around the tail end, also they are covered in "eye" spots, where panoptes comes from (many eyes).

 

[Karen Hulvey]

I will hopefully be going to get some Litoria splendida over the weekend, and will post some pics of them if I do. I dont know if you have seen them before as I dont think they are available outside of Australia, but in my opinion they are probably amongst the most beatiful tree frogs.

No I have not seen them before. Do post pictures. I can't wait.