Alternative housing for Xenopus laevis.
At the authors' facility, housing arrangements for Xenopus laevis were cumbersome and labor-intensive, requiring technicians to wash frog tanks by hand several times a week. The authors describe an alternative housing solution they implemented by modifying a rack system that was originally used to maintain zebrafish. The rack's self-contained water circulation and filtration system saved technicians time and labor, and a commercial chiller attached to the mechanism efficiently controlled frogs' environmental temperature.
White-James
Jaime
J
Department of Animal Care and Technologies, Arizona State University, 2325 E Rio Salado Parkway, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA. jaime.white-james@asu.edu
McAndrew
Dustin
D
Badman
James
J
McGarry
Michael
M
D000822:Animal Husbandry; D000818:Animals; D004777:Environment; D006799:Housing, Animal; D014982:Xenopus laevis / Q000502:physiology*