Phantasmal Tree Frog

Phantasmal tree frogs (epipedobates tricolor) are better known as phantasmal poison frogs. They are known as phantasmal poison frogs, because they are poison dart frogs. They are phantasmal, because they are so small, and they are so colorful, people think that they might as well be pictures of their imagination. They are about as small as a quarter, as in coins. They are so small and colorful, and hard to see. They are red with yellow stripes down their backs. Or they could be brown with yellow stripes. The stripes could also be green. The legs help them leap great distances.

Phantasmal poison frogs have dangerous skin that holds poison inside. The poison can be made into good, usable painkillers for patients. These painkillers are approximately 200 times more effective than morphine. The frogs are dangerous, but what they have is valuable, but too hard to get, though not impossible.

Males and female frogs are almost the same size; about 0.8-1.1 inches. Phantasmal poison frogs live in southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru, west of the Andes Mountains. Fully grown up poison frogs spend most of their time on land near mountains. They have the skill to survive in wet and dry areas, but they spend their time near water. Tadpoles have to live in and grow up in water only. These frogs eat small arthropods.

According to the World Conservation Union, phantasmal poison frogs are endangered. They are endangered from many things, even people who want to keep them as pets. The materials inside the cages are dangerous for the frogs, and can kill them. Also, human agriculture harms the frogs, because they have nowhere to live. Phantasmal poison frogs, or phantasmal tree frogs, are interesting animals, but they might be extinct, so we need to try to help them.

Rio Cauca Caecilian

The Rio Cauca Caecilian (Typhlonectes natans), is a wormlike animal that lives in rivers and lakes. The Rio Cauca Caecilian is an amphibian, because they come out of the water, and they breathe air. Wild Rio Cauca Caecilians live in Northern Colombia and in Northwestern Venezuela. Adults are usually as big as 50 centimeters long. These caecilians are not endangered or threatened in any way, because they have a perfect environment to live in, and not many animals in their area eat them as prey, so they are safe from their little number of predators. They first came from South America, in the tropical zone, and they started breeding in different places. The temperature is hot in the tropical zone, but caecilians are fine with most water temperatures, as long as they are not in too cold water, like most amphibians.

Rio Cauca Caecilians have no legs, like worms, and they are gray, with lots of gray stripes that look paved in. These are only on females. Males are not so lumpy. They are slippery, because of their habitat, which is underwater, in streams, lakes, rivers, and tanks in either houses or aquariums. Caecilians are not bred on purpose ever. They grow their numbers quickly. The tank they are kept in may have more caecilians the next day, when the caecilians breed, but not because the keepers want to, but because they want to.

In a tank, if you'd like to keep some, caecilians need some rocks or crevices to hide in. They like to have some hiding spots. They are not nocturnal, but they are more active at night. They eat shrimps, worms, insects, and fish smaller than them. The end of the caecilian, opposite of the head, is white, and it feels like rubber. The other side pattern doesn't look much different than the rest of the body. Rio Cauca Caecilians have big mouths, and blueish round eyes.

Caecilians need clean water to live in. Their skin sheddings need to be kept out of their tank as soon as possible. It can dirty the tank, if not cleaned soon enough. Caecilians are blind, and their eyes look blind as well. Caecilians live for 5-20 years. They are also known as rubber worms, eel worms, rubber eels, worm fish, black worms, medusa worms, sicilian worms, and black reef eels. Caecilians are popular pets.

Axolotl

The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanun) is an endangered type of salamander from the Tiger Salamander group. They are almost extinct, due to pollution, rapidly growing human population, and the fish that live in the same ocean like to eat the axolotls' offspring.

A fully grown axolotl male is about 15-45 centimeters long. Most common male axolotls grow up to be about 23 centimeters. The axolotl is also known as the Mexican Walking Fish. Axolotls never change the way they look, for their whole lives. They never change themselves from the form they had when they were born, their larval form. Unlike most amphibians, axolotls don't live on land at all, and are wholly aquatic, yet they are still amphibians. They have lungs, gills and they can also breathe through their skin as well as with their gills and lungs.

Axolotls have a diet of tadpoles, soft insects, worms, and small fish. Housekept axolotls can also eat small pieces of raw meat. They only need to eat once in two or three days. Housekept axolotls (pet axolotls) need to be kept in small groups of only axolotls. If there are too many of the axolotls, they will fight, and other animals would eat them, which happens a lot in nature. Like many other reptiles and amphibians, when they lose their limbs, it will grow back. This also happens to the axolotls' tail, legs, skin, heart, liver, and the kidney. Axolotls live for about 10-15 years. They are born either golden albino, white albino, black, or with spots. Axolotls are fantastic animals that could be extinct, but they should be kept alive and helped.