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Published on: February 2, 2016
Alternative housing for Xenopus laevis
Jaime White-James1, Dustin McAndrew, James Badman
1Department of Animal Care and Technologies, Arizona State University, 2325 E Rio Salado Parkway, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA. jaime.white-james@asu.edu
Abstract:
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.

