NaBarney Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Put em in an old fish tank on the porch. Couple different kinds, no idea what they are. Probably tree frogs since that's all I hear. Also scooped up some water beetles and a couple of these weird looking insect larva by accident. Should be a good summer watching these boys grow up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarPanda Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Name them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted May 21, 2017 Author Share Posted May 21, 2017 I can't even count them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mochi Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Put em in an old fish tank on the porch. Couple different kinds, no idea what they are. Probably tree frogs since that's all I hear. Also scooped up some water beetles and a couple of these weird looking insect larva by accident. Should be a good summer watching these boys grow up. I LOVE FROGS!, show us their progress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codename: Jackass Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 I know it's going to be hard letting your sons and daughters go to froggy college once they grow up but you'll have to let them go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted May 21, 2017 Author Share Posted May 21, 2017 I LOVE FROGS!, show us their progress I WILL, I APPRECIATE YOUR ENTHUSIASM I need to catch a couple minnows somewhere, for mosquito control. That's tomorrow's mission Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mthor Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Good luck. Every time I've ever tried that, well, lo, I am become Death, destroyer of aquariums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted May 21, 2017 Author Share Posted May 21, 2017 If they all die my conscience is clear since they would have dried up anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuggnificent Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 In a drying puddle? They werent meant to be! Frog mom was trying to abort! You're messing with the order of the universe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted May 21, 2017 Author Share Posted May 21, 2017 That's not how this works! That's not how any of this works! Anyway god doesn't approve of abortion so if that's what's being prevented here then maybe I'm on some divine intervention shit. The froglets need our help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuggnificent Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 That's not how this works! That's not how any of this works! Anyway god doesn't approve of abortion so if that's what's being prevented here then maybe I'm on some divine intervention shit. The froglets need our help God aborts all the time. He miscarries. But in the frog world he has the mom put babies where theyd never survive. When the locusts come to devour you..youll know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
André Toulon Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 God aborts all the time. He miscarries. But in the frog world he has the mom put babies where theyd never survive. When the locusts come to devour you..youll know. Just because you murdered a baby possum we all to you to leave alone doesn't mean there was some act of god in play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1pooh4u Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Lol, those aren't tadpoles :poop: :post: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohri Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 That's not how this works! That's not how any of this works! Anyway god doesn't approve of abortion so if that's what's being prevented here then maybe I'm on some divine intervention shit. The froglets need our help Did you learn nothing from the seventeen Final Destination movies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted June 1, 2017 Author Share Posted June 1, 2017 Well today was a big day, after a couple weeks of feeding my children their peas and aqua scaping their vivarium, I released the first two boys into the wild of my backyard. The first metamorph crawled onto the leafy land and was exploring so I decided he was ready to go. Released him from whence he came This was him yesterday, clinging to a leaf with his head above water, almost ready to emerge but not quite. I took him out of the water and tried to put him on the land feature but he immediately wriggled back into the murky depths. The second one to develop I noticed clinging to a floating piece of wood. Scooped him up and placed him on land to see how he handled himself. He made a break for it right away, and so was promptly released into the same back yard puddle pond where he was born. Upon release both hopped out of the water and into the grass. There's at least 12 more of these tadpoles to go, and 3 little ones of a different species, I think these might actually become toads. They're developing nicely. The fathead minnows are doing there job of eating all the mosquito larvae. They're sold as 19 cent feeder fish and can survive almost anything. There's only three and two are definitely males, the third is either a juvenile male or a female. I'm hoping female so they can have babies. Here's a water beetle, diving down in the corner of the tank after getting some air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted June 1, 2017 Author Share Posted June 1, 2017 Aside from the tadpoles and fish there are two water beetles, a couple free swimming insect larvae too big to be eaten, and one huge larva, idk what he is, he's great though. Spends most of the time on the underside of a submerged leaf, occasionally comes to the surface for air but it's funny how he does it, how he swims, he's always on his back looking up at the surface with two big legs propelling him through the water, when he comes up for air he walks along the underside of the water's surface with his four little legs, submerged the entire time. He takes a quick breath before quickly swimming back down. I'm wondering if he'll eat a minnow. I planted a couple water lily bulbs in the substrate so in about a month and a half should have some real plants on the surface to replace the island of leaves. There's some emergent non-aquatic plants planted into the substrate but they'll probably be dead soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hidden Posted June 1, 2017 Share Posted June 1, 2017 good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted June 4, 2017 Author Share Posted June 4, 2017 Let four or five more little froglets out into the world today. And now that I'm down to several of these tads and the three rapidly growing but still much smaller toad tads, I couldn't help myself. I scooped up some more from the drying puddle/semi permanent pond. In one scoop I got at least thirty very small tadpoles, at least two different species, I think both are different from the two I've raised to this point... So right now have 4 different kinds of tadpoles, a few dozen total, along with the minnows and water bugs. These didn't exactly need rescuing since there's rain in the forecast, but their sad algae puddles have the gasoline rainbows and are in the direct line of my neighbor's big ass van that runs through them every day, so I'm not completely lying to myself when I say they'll be happier eating peas in the peaceful 8 inches of water of my ten gallon. Mostly though I just want them. Frog dad 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codename: Jackass Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 My heart grew three sizes this day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted June 14, 2017 Author Share Posted June 14, 2017 Rescued several more today, they were just flopping in a dog paw print in the mud which had managed to retain a small amount of water, the rest dried up. Here's a pic of the cool water bug/insect large I haven't identified. Speedy guy. He's above the fish and to the right of the tadpole in the corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom Metal Alchemist Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 So what are you gonna do with all these guys when they become too big to keep? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted June 14, 2017 Author Share Posted June 14, 2017 So what are you gonna do with all these guys when they become too big to keep? I've been releasing them once they emerge from the water, at least ten already. I'd keep a couple but apparently they're a pain in the ass to feed when they're really young. Better to let their instincts figure it out in the real world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted June 14, 2017 Author Share Posted June 14, 2017 why didn't you eat them? I don't understand. The birds don't eat them, even when they're just flopping in mud. It makes me wary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom Metal Alchemist Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 I've been releasing them once they emerge from the water, at least ten already. I'd keep a couple but apparently they're a pain in the ass to feed when they're really young. Better to let their instincts figure it out in the real world. I can just imagine you rescuing and releasing all these frogs turning out like this: Yes, that is about foreign species, but I still wonder if you can upset the balance of your local ecosystem with having more frogs living in the wild than otherwise would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted June 14, 2017 Author Share Posted June 14, 2017 Considering frog populations have been on the decline in a big way in general, I'll take the chance of flooding my local ecosystem with them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
André Toulon Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Considering frog populations have been on the decline in a big way in general, I'll take the chance of flooding my local ecosystem with them Cool, now I can open this thread on page 2 and skip all the obscenely large images you've embedded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted June 15, 2017 Author Share Posted June 15, 2017 Cool, now I can open this thread on page 2 and skip all the obscenely large images you've embedded. NOT SO FAST Today I found a tiny little frog in the yard and I have to believe it's one that I released earlier this month. My baby boys are growing up. I put him back in the tank for a moment and he wanted no part of being in the water. Total shit swimmer, definitely a tree frog (as if that wasn't obvious.) Shot of the tads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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NaBarney Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 So we had some rain and my boys were all getting grown so a couple weeks ago I released them all into the driveway pond to become frogs on their own time. Of course the day I released them (pic above) I noticed a bunch more frog eggs brought on by the rain, floating in their gelatinous clusters on the surface of the water. Well, this is the current state of the puddle pond I tried to resist but I'm back on my shit. I scooped up a bunch of tadpoles and put them in my new tote pond which was intended to just be for the fish and water lily Cloudy from having just dumped in the dredged tadwater. Got another one of these mysterious fellows. The last one lived in the tank for several weeks and idk what happened to him, he either died or transformed into his flying insect form. Still have no idea wtf it is specifically but I like em. The tank was cool but I'm liking this more, still in the shade most of the day but a portion gets some good sun for the plants. I like staring down at it from the porch and looking at all the invertebrate life in and around it - tads surfacing, fish swimming, spiders running over the water. Saw a baby skink crawling around on the side of it, and a hornet land and devour the green caterpillar it was carrying, stuff I would've missed if I wasn't looking down at the lawn for ten minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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