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Post by conchydong on Sept 17, 2023 14:42:52 GMT -5
Interesting - good stuff BFrog. . I agree. Learning a lot about frogs here. I never knew that they had such different diets.
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Post by johnnybandit on Sept 17, 2023 17:50:00 GMT -5
Never knew that frogs ate mice. Learn something new every day. Cool pic
I had an African Bullfrog (they get HUGE) years back... That could and would... eat adult rats, quail, etc...
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Post by johnnybandit on Sept 17, 2023 17:57:10 GMT -5
So I've learned that Dain's deal is that he/she wants vertebrates. If I offer frogs or rodents, Dain aggressively catches and eats them. The only vertebrate Dain has refused have been anoles. So far, Dain has had 9 green tree frogs. Dain has doubled or tripled in size since I first got the frog. Frogger is also growing quickly.Below is Frogger eating a pinky mouse. This is Frogger this evening swallowing a wild field cricket. Frogger continues to eat anything offered. He's had 1 pinky mouse, 2 anoles, 1 leopard frog, 1 green tree frog, and dozens of crickets both wild and domestic. Last week he started dropping crickets out of his mouth as if his tongue didn't work. I read that condition is usually caused by vitamin A deficiency, so I dosed him with vitamin A formulated for amphibians and gave him the pinky, which is high in vitamin A. Now his tongue works like it ought, so I suspect the diagnosis was correct. I can alleviate further vitamin A issues in either frog by making sure they get a mouse or other small, fatty, mammal once a month. I am going to guess that Frogger will turn out to be a male and Dana a female. That will bear out when they get near a year old. If either are a male, they'll develop an extra pad on their front feet they use for gripping females when mating. Do you have UV lights on the frogs? Or do they have daily access to natural sunlight.... No glass between them and the sun.....Frankly I would be dusting their food with powdered vitamins and calcium.... Or Gut loading their prey items..... Repti Zoo has some GREAT powdered vitamins and calcium that you can dust prey items with...
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Post by bullfrog on Sept 17, 2023 18:52:16 GMT -5
So I've learned that Dain's deal is that he/she wants vertebrates. If I offer frogs or rodents, Dain aggressively catches and eats them. The only vertebrate Dain has refused have been anoles. So far, Dain has had 9 green tree frogs. Dain has doubled or tripled in size since I first got the frog. Frogger is also growing quickly.Below is Frogger eating a pinky mouse. This is Frogger this evening swallowing a wild field cricket. Frogger continues to eat anything offered. He's had 1 pinky mouse, 2 anoles, 1 leopard frog, 1 green tree frog, and dozens of crickets both wild and domestic. Last week he started dropping crickets out of his mouth as if his tongue didn't work. I read that condition is usually caused by vitamin A deficiency, so I dosed him with vitamin A formulated for amphibians and gave him the pinky, which is high in vitamin A. Now his tongue works like it ought, so I suspect the diagnosis was correct. I can alleviate further vitamin A issues in either frog by making sure they get a mouse or other small, fatty, mammal once a month. I am going to guess that Frogger will turn out to be a male and Dana a female. That will bear out when they get near a year old. If either are a male, they'll develop an extra pad on their front feet they use for gripping females when mating. Do you have UV lights on the frogs? Or do they have daily access to natural sunlight.... No glass between them and the sun.....Frankly I would be dusting their food with powdered vitamins and calcium.... Or Gut loading their prey items..... Repti Zoo has some GREAT powdered vitamins and calcium that you can dust prey items with... They each have a UVB bulb I run for 12 hours a day, and their sweet potato vines in each tank have grown enough give them shade if they want it for their eyes (they can already bury under the dirt to protect their skin when they’ve had enough. I dust feeder crickets, and I have dusted a couple of treefrogs, with a calcium supplement and a multivitamin. But the multivitamin contains no vitamin A. So last week I got some Repashy vitamin A. That stuff has to be used sparing, about once a month. Within a couple of days of dosing him with the Repashy and giving him a pinky, his short tongue went away and now he has good stickiness on his tongue. I’m going to randomly dose with vitamins as I go, but I think the variety I’m giving them out of the wild is going to take care of their needs most meals. Frogger is the easiest because he eats anything. So he gets wild crickets, domestic crickets, lizards, frogs, tomato horn worms out of my garden, various grasshoppers, pinky mice and anything else I don’t perceive to be toxic. If I give him a pinky or a fuzzy once a month, that should satisfy his vitamin A needs. Dain is the tricky one because Dain is only taking the green treefrogs and he also took the mouse aggressively. Its a lot harder to find him small vertebrates every other day besides the treefrogs. Dain likes the treefrogs so much that he chases them around the tank and bays them when they get too high to reach. As both frogs grow large enough to only focus on vertebrates, calcium will take care of itself I think through digesting bones. Yesterday my daughter and I made a game of collecting for the frogs down at the food plot. In about 30 minutes we had several large grasshoppers and treefrogs (treefrogs like to mob overgrown foodplots).
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Post by bullfrog on Oct 5, 2023 6:00:30 GMT -5
The newest addition. An ornata froglet I got in yesterday afternoon. This is the hyper aggressive species of pacman like I had as a kid. He's been eating crickets all night. He's going to be the sort that's going to attack movement on the glass of the tank like a finger. 3 pacman frogs ought to do me. Between the 3, at least one should be the opposite sex. The ornates and Cranwell's are close enough genetically that they can readily crossbreed. Some Cranwell's infused with the aggression of the ornate may be an impressive frog.
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Post by bullfrog on Oct 28, 2023 21:55:49 GMT -5
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Post by swampdog on Oct 29, 2023 8:00:33 GMT -5
In the interest of science this is interesting. However I much prefer your chicken project.😉 P.S. Keep that air gun ready in case those big frogs go rogue…
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Post by bullfrog on Oct 29, 2023 11:22:52 GMT -5
In the interest of science this is interesting. However I much prefer your chicken project.😉 P.S. Keep that air gun ready in case those big frogs go rogue… There was once a pacman frog that was big enough to eat a cat. I have no doubt one a bit bigger would be deadly to humans.
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Post by bullfrog on Nov 19, 2023 21:35:15 GMT -5
Time for their monthly rodent feeding: Video is semi graphic. The pics above are the ornate, which my daughter has named originally enough "Pacman." The two in the video is my pacman followed by my daughter's pacman, both being the two Cranwells.
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Post by bullfrog on Nov 19, 2023 21:54:35 GMT -5
Some more pics. I like how the tank turned out for my frog, Dain. Dain had a big weekend. Not only did she have the mouse this evening, she also had 2 bluegill that were about as wide as her body. Now my daughter's pacman Frogger is having some weight issues. I feed it less for this reason, but its belly outpaces its bone growth. Colors are nice though: After tonight's feeding, I may not feed it again until its belly shrinks significantly. Pacmans should be round, and many captive ones look like Frogger looks now, but what ultimately seems to be happening is that Frogger's growth rate is slower than the other two frogs.
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Post by gardawg on Nov 19, 2023 22:04:40 GMT -5
The Frog National Anthem
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Post by bullfrog on Dec 4, 2023 22:16:28 GMT -5
The leopard frogs are out in force after the rains we’ve had, So I’ve gorged the pacman frogs on them over the weekend. They won’t need to eat again for some time. Pacman and Dain each got 3 frogs back to back. I skipped Frogger because he/she is still a bit bloated from the last mouse. I’m going to let it shrink some before another major feeding.
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Post by gardawg on Dec 5, 2023 16:26:02 GMT -5
SCIENCE | DECEMBER 2023 The Surprise Reappearance of a Rare Frog Has Scientists Leaping to Protect Its Habitat The marsupial frog, which incubates its young in a pouch on its back, was thought to be extinct in some countries www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/surprise-reappearance-rare-frog-scientists-leaping-protect-habitat-180983233/The word “marsupial” typically evokes a kangaroo or perhaps a koala, something furry and warm-blooded that protects its babies in a pouch. But a surprising variety of creatures have evolved this unusual means of parental care, including crustaceans, seahorses—and frogs. With jaunty peaks sticking up from its eyelids that may help it camouflage as a dry leaf, the horned marsupial frog is “a fascinating creature that people can’t wrap their heads around,” says James Muchmore, founder of Save the Chocó, a conservation group dedicated to protecting this threatened region of Ecuadorean rainforest. Instead of laying thousands of eggs in water, like most frogs, female horned marsupial frogs produce only ten or fewer of the largest amphibian eggs in the world, at a whopping diameter of one centimeter. Males then fertilize these eggs and place them into a pouch on the mother’s back, which is what earns the species, and dozens of related frogs, the “marsupial” moniker. As the embryos grow, they develop structures similar to mammalian placentas through which their mother delivers oxygen, water and possibly nutrients. After about two months, horned marsupial frog eggs hatch as forest-ready froglets, skipping the tadpole stage. This remarkable adaptation frees them from the need to find ponds or streams for egg-laying. They spend their lives high in the trees of Central and South American rainforests, where the humid air is thought to keep their skin from drying out. Since the second half of the 20th century, however, these forests have been devastated by logging and plantation clearing, a threat exacerbated in the 1990s by a global panzootic (a non-human pandemic) caused by chytrid fungus. For decades, the horned marsupial frog, which once ranged from Costa Rica south to Ecuador, was feared extinct in both countries, surviving only as endangered populations in Panama and parts of Colombia. But Costa Rican herpetologist Stanley Salazar still searched the forest for remote areas similar to known Panamanian frog habitats. One evening in 2013, he says, “I heard the frog call I’d been hoping to hear for the past three years—like popping the cork from a bottle.” He cut a path toward the call with his machete, then turned off his flashlight. “When it sang, it was right in front of me,” he says. “I turned on the light and saw it. In that moment I was incredibly excited.” Then, in Ecuador, in 2018, researchers headed to a little-studied region of the Chocó that narrowly escaped destruction after the nonprofit Jocotoco Foundation partnered with Muchmore to purchase land threatened by logging. They returned with joyous news: They’d seen—and heard—horned marsupial frogs. “It’s extremely loud for such a little animal,” says Muchmore, who later visited the area. “You could hear them throughout the jungle.” The frog’s rediscovery, says Martin Schaefer, CEO of Jocotoco, proves the importance of protecting remote, vulnerable habitats. “Hope is something we all can create with our actions,” he says. This article is a selection from the December 2023 issue of Smithsonian magazine
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Dec 5, 2023 19:00:22 GMT -5
The only frogs that matter Attachments:
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Post by johnnybandit on Jul 17, 2024 23:33:18 GMT -5
Bullfrog.... How is your Frog Project going?
By now I thought you would have been breeding.....
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