Farms: Maryland Frog Farm-Sean Stewart
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ELLICOTT CITY, Md. - There's an enormous frog farm in Howard County, Maryland. It's in a red barn just west of Ellicott City. At any given time, there are about 500 exotic, adult frogs at the farm. They are sold to collectors, universities, and research agencies. Emergency Room physician Sean Stewart owns the frog farm. He specializes in raising very colorful frogs which originate in Central and South America. They are known as poison dart frogs, because native peoples from that area would tip their arrows and spears with fluids from the frog. The treated spears and arrows would kill the intended target. The frogs are colorful because that tells predators they taste bad. In the wild, the poison comes from alkaloid plants which are eaten by local insects. The frogs eat the insects, and the magnified poison becomes part of the frog. Dr. Stewart feeds his frogs flies and crickets, so his specimens are not poisonous. They sell for about $75 each, depending on the coloration. Stewart calls his business Herpetologic. It also sells very colorful snakes, called green tree pythons. Some of them, which are bred for colors other than green, can fetch thousands of dollars from collectors.
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How would he catch poison dart frogs in the US?
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beautiful frogs
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thats awesome, im currently looking for a decent pair of bastimentos and was looking into this guy but cant seem to find a way to contact him....
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yeah your stupid as fuck..
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@microiguana i don't know srry... :(
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@sind55 LOL what do you think? Do you know of any woods in maryland that would have these kind of tropical, poisonous, humid-loving cold-sensitive dart frogs?
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Been to his frog farm. Its soooo awesome!!!!!!!! Got a trio of epipedobates anthonyi
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did he buy all frogs or did he catch them in the woods?
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wats his site
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So Dont Cut The EGG ! Make A cut an Then Rip The Leather Of The Egg ! pull the skin of the egg upwards !
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herpetologic. net
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How can I get in touch with him? I'd love to get some of those frogs.
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I've been keeping and breeding PDF's for 10 years now and have gotten to know Sean quite well through emails. In fact, several specimens in my collecions were acquired from him. Great guy!
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YAY NOT POISONOUS :D