MOTW June 2015 - Elly

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Do you have any pictures of the salad?

[elly]

No, I ate it all.
And that was last year, so...

[LilyPad]

Week 2, tell us about your amphibians. How you came to keep them, mistakes/learning curves, species kept, breedings, how you found Frog Forum etc....we heard enough about you on week 1, let us hear about them frogs!

[elly]

I tried to raise a couple of toadpoles when I was a kid, but they didn't live. I used to gather all the small toads I could find, then release them.

American Green Tree frogs were around too, but it was pretty rare to see one. I'd never even seen a gray tree frog until 2013, when I saw three, one after the other. The last one was dehydrated and wandering through my aunt's house. I gave it some bottled water to soak in, then let it go. That was the one that made me finally decide to go get a White's.

There's a blog called Sticky Frogs that influenced me into getting one of those. After I learned that White's were tolerant of a wide temperature range and could be handled a bit I decided they were probably the best frog for me. (And after I got my first one I kept getting fooled into thinking he was probably dead when he was just sleeping. Yep. New frog owner stuff.)

There are still a lot of toads around my house (Woodhouse toads maybe). I like flicking insects to them sometimes. They almost act tame.

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Do you happen to know what species the tadpoles were?

[elly]

I assume they were Woodhouse(?) toads, since those are the most common species in the area.

[LilyPad]

I'm sorry I have slacked! I've been so looking forward to week 3 also! Doing both at once

Week 3, show and tell. Wow us with your pictures/videos/sound clips.
Week 4, answer any questions posted to you regarding your posts from the previous weeks. Other members can use this opportunity to pick your brain. (All questions must be appropriate and related to topics of discussion.)