Hi, thank you for commenting on the bullfrog post and for sharing
your photos. Sounds like your big guy is the Frog King, not a Prince
anymore, he rules.

I wish it'd be possible to mix frogs and fish in a pond without them
eating each other, but it's fun to have them at all. I do worry about
bigger frogs getting in the pool and raising heck. These little guys
are so tiny, maybe 1/2" to 3/4" when they first start their land
journey. So almost anything, even large lizards could eat them.

My little tree frog tads here don't like my shadow falling across
them, they scatter. But once they 'see' who it is they usually come
back up to loll around on the surface and stay there unless I do
anything they don't like. Hard to find anything they don't like, cuz
I can dip them out with a cup or put things in the water and they'll
swim right up to investigate. I could probably train them to spoon
feed. One thing they don't like is if I accidentally tap or bump
something, they don't like the vibration at all.

Some swim away if I do food drops but others turn and swim right into
the food and start eating right away. It's funny, yesterday I put
fish flake in one of the little feeding stations I've rigged with
algae so the froglets can get food, and one guy laying in the algae
just pulled in a flake and swallowed it without moving from his spot.

They're just cuties. I couldn't have them in with the goldfish
because they could eat the small ones and maybe nibble parts off of
the bigger ones.

I should probably put up some of my frog pix at my Photobucket albums
so people can visit and see the 'baby pictures!'

Some are growing their tiny hind legs, complete with toes. I love the
varied patterns, some look like calico with striped tails. I have
some dwarf tads, too, that don't seem to get very big, still about
1/4" long, teeny tiny. I had to separate some as they were getting
knocked around too much by the big guys. I'm not sure if it's a gene
or if it's nutritional, not very many that size, maybe a dozen out of
over a hundred.

I miss having a 'landscaped' outdoor pond, I had one at the last
place I lived that my boyfriend and I made from cement with a little
waterfall at one end. Here, I have to make do with 'wading pools' and
so forth to attract wildlife, but I'm lucky or even blessed to have
all of these little frogs.

The largest I've seen was a Pacific Chorus Frog a couple of inches
long, most never seem to get bigger than an inch or so. We don't have
any good permanent creeks or ponds in the woods here, just seasonal
ones that dry up. So that's probably one reason the frogs don't get
very large. Predation, and lack of good habitat to breed an
overabundance so some can keep growing instead of getting eaten.

One of the cutest things I've seen the tads do is act like they're
kissing each other on the mouth. It's probably not an affection
gesture, but hard to say since they nuzzle each other or seem to
greet each other.


--- In ribitphrog@yahoogroups.com, ghendri@... wrote:
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> Once you have an adult Bullfrog in residence it is very tough to
have any
> other frogs. They will eat anything they can fit in their mouth. I
have a 2yr
> old that has wiped out most of my baby fish smaller than 2 inches
along with 2
> Green Frogs. He is quite tame and will eat crickets that are tossed
to him.
> Here he is coming up for some sun during spring cleanout this year.
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> His home
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