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Not a fish but still cool

Started by Guest_davidjh2_* , Feb 15 2011 12:40 PM

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#1 Guest_davidjh2_*

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Posted 15 February 2011 - 12:40 PM

This is one of 2 tadpoles I caught in the fall during one of my lunchtime trips. Unfortunately it escaped not long after turning into a frog. There was one way out for it in my 10 gallon tank and it found it. The other tadpole a Bullfrog tadpole is starting to turn now and it will have it's own (more escape proof) tank in my son's room.

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#2 Guest_davidjh2_*

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Posted 15 February 2011 - 10:30 PM

Okay none of the pictures actually loaded. I saw it at work but I thought it was just the company's firewall blocking it.
Lets' try this again

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#3 Guest_Bob_*

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Posted 16 February 2011 - 10:28 AM

Hey, they plants are all wrong. You need frogbit, not duckweed.

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Okay none of the pictures actually loaded. I saw it at work but I thought it was just the company's firewall blocking it.
Lets' try this again

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#4 Guest_davidjh2_*

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Posted 16 February 2011 - 04:08 PM

I didn't ask for the duckweed it came along with a clump of Hornwort I had picked up in a canal. I keep thinning it out and it keeps growing back.

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#5 Guest_CATfishTONY_*

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Posted 16 February 2011 - 05:50 PM

I didn't ask for the duckweed it came along with a clump of Hornwort I had picked up in a canal. I keep thinning it out and it keeps growing back.

Nice frog, add a tilapia to the tank and your duckweed troubles will soon be gone.

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#6 Guest_Newt_*

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Posted 16 February 2011 - 07:15 PM

Neat! It's a green frog, not a bullfrog. Similar but stays smaller. The best diagnostic difference is the ridge of skin (dorsolateral fold) running from behind the eye back to the sacral hump (the forward point of the hip). This will be absent in the bullfrog, and extend all the way to the groin in most other ranid frogs.

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#7 Guest_mikez_*

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Posted 17 February 2011 - 07:22 AM

Nice frog, add a tilapia to the tank and your duckweed troubles will soon be gone.

Why does duckweed have to be a problem? :-$

When he says he keeps thinning it out, he means he's converting nitrogeous waste into solid bulk and removing it without doing water changes. From a problem to a filter with a simple change in perspective. :smile2:

And the pic of the frog peeking out from the duckweed is very cool. :cool2:

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#8 Guest_davidjh2_*

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Posted 17 February 2011 - 08:27 AM

Neat! It's a green frog, not a bullfrog. Similar but stays smaller. The best diagnostic difference is the ridge of skin (dorsolateral fold) running from behind the eye back to the sacral hump (the forward point of the hip). This will be absent in the bullfrog, and extend all the way to the groin in most other ranid frogs.

Yeah I realized he wasn't a bullfrog when he started changing. The other tadpole I have I'm about 99% sure is a bullfrog tadpole. He/she is starting to change now so I should have more frog pics in a few weeks or so.

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#9 Guest_davidjh2_*

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Posted 17 February 2011 - 08:28 AM

Why does duckweed have to be a problem?
When he says he keeps thinning it out, he means he's converting nitrogeous waste into solid bulk and removing it without doing water changes. From a problem to a filter with a simple change in perspective.

And the pic of the frog peeking out from the duckweed is very cool.

I have to keep thinning it because it's outgrowing my 10 gallon. The plants are so thick the frog could almost walk on them. I like the Duckweed though it's the only water plant I seem to be able to grow lol.