A website update and overhaul is long overdue! We will be hard at work over the next little while on the site finally updating the plant section so that it better represents the diversity of species we offer. The frog section will also be re-worked so that it more accurately represents the species we are working with. Stay tuned and as always thanks for your support!

Wishing all of you a peaceful, joyous and prosperous New Year! Looking ahead into 2019, it is already looking to be a busy one. The Expo season is off to an early start, with the first Expo of the year scheduled for January 27th at the new home of the Expo, the International Centre. The venue is a great home for the Expo and we look forward to a full Expo schedule. Due to other commitments and endeavours outside of the frog world we will be exporting to the US only two, possibly three times this year instead of the Read More…

Prelude The following is intended to be the first in a short series of 3 or 4 installments recounting our travels, our adventures and our misadventures experienced in the very remote Serrania de Sira whilst looking to rediscover the lost or at least largely unknown frog which at the time was known as Dendrobates sirensis, Aichinger 1991. This was written initially in late 2005 in a journal I kept. Though now more than 13 years has passed since the first of these expeditions transpired, the memories are in many cases still so fresh that it seems as though it all Read More…

With luck and dedication any collector of anything comes to a point that the collection reaches its zenith.   For some, this comes after years of hard work, hunting, making contacts etc.  For others this moment comes after careful consideration, reworking and often down sizing to bring the collection to a size that is rewarding, enjoyable, and where the workload involved in the curation of the collection does not negate the enjoyment involved in maintaining the collection.  A ”collection” of live animals or plants is different from collecting comic books, fossils or other inanimate objects as invariably there is more work Read More…

It has been a while since our last newsletter. Since we have been posting more on Facebook and Instagram, I thought that gave me some liberty to slack on the newsletters; however, some people have been inquiring, so here you go! Finally, it looks like spring is around the corner. This means as usual lots of frogs up and coming. From late December through May is usually when many of our dart frogs are their most productive. This I think is largely due to slightly cooler temperatures in the buildings. Our tinctorius and auratus availability should be good going into Read More…