Frogs are amazing

[Ganoderma]

Many people use vegetarian fish food and add nutrients. I always used spriulina to aid them. The reason lettuce sucks is because it has so little nutritional content. The only lettuce that may be worth something is romaine. Do a search on feeding reptiles lettuce and you will get a good idea. It is really poor for getting amphibians/reptiles to grow. Other leafy greens can be substituted such as dandelion, collared, or perhaps try some aquatic vegetation that they are found around. Cucumber and cabbage and the like can be used, but many people still stick with fish food and supplements.

 

the only time i ever use lettuce is to help rehydrate animals, it does have a good amount of water.

[Michaelangelica]

  Ganoderma said:

Many people use vegetarian fish food and add nutrients. I always used spriulina to aid them. The reason lettuce sucks is because it has so little nutritional content. The only lettuce that may be worth something is romaine. Do a search on feeding reptiles lettuce and you will get a good idea. It is really poor for getting amphibians/reptiles to grow. Other leafy greens can be substituted such as dandelion, collared, or perhaps try some aquatic vegetation that they are found around. Cucumber and cabbage and the like can be used, but many people still stick with fish food and supplements.

 

the only time i ever use lettuce is to help rehydrate animals, it does have a good amount of water.

Thanks for your advice.

 

Do you want to put these people straight?

http://www.qldfrogs.asn.au/Garden/garden.htm#feeding%20tadpoles

http://www.qldfrogs.asn.au/merchandise.htm

http://www.qldfrogs.asn.au/Garden/garden.htm#further%20information

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Feeding Tadpoles

 

Feed tadpoles boiled lettuce. Use unwanted outer dark green leaves from your green-grocer. Wash thoroughly to remove pesticides, then boil until soft (15-20 minutes). Boiled leaves may be conveniently stored in plastic ice cube trays and frozen ready for use.

 

Feed tadpoles as much food as they will eat every 1-3 days. Remove any remaining food before re-feeding. Too much food will foul the water; not enough and the tadpoles will eat each other. Fish food is recommended as an additional supplement for mature tadpoles. Boiled milk thistles, paw-paw leaves and thinly sliced zucchini may also be used for variety.

[Michaelangelica]

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Solar-powered mesh project helps find new frog

Networking project in the Amazon turns up unknown amphibian, proving Negroponte right in more ways than one.

By David Meyer

Special to CNET News.com

Published: October 6, 2006, 9:18 AM PDT

 

A solar-powered wireless mesh network in the Amazon basin has played a part in the discovery of a new species of frog.

 

The frog, nicknamed Yachanita, was discovered last month at a field station that was connected by mesh to the Funedesin (Foundation for Integrated Education and Development) network in Yachana, Ecuador.

 

According to Richard Lander, co-founder of U.K. mesh networking company LocustWorld--whose technology is used in the network--the scheme itself may be the first of its kind.

 

"We have lots of mesh networks where the occasional inaccessible mesh box gets power by solar or wind or replaceable battery, but this entire center is powered by solar electricity. The fact that this center in the middle of the jungle is able to achieve Internet connectivity through solar power, we think, is unique," Lander told ZDNet UK on Friday.

http://news.com.com/Solar-powered+mesh+project+helps+find+new+frog/2100-7351_3-6123426.html

[Michaelangelica]

Frogs, Toads and $

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2006/oct/14/fgcu_gaining_rep_fullfledged_research_institution/?local_news

[Michaelangelica]

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Feds ordered to consider protecting Sierra Nevada frog

Associated Press

 

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday to reconsider giving protected status to a mountain frog whose populations are in decline.

 

The federal agency determined in January 2003 that the Sierra Nevada mountain yellow-legged frog should be listed as an endangered species, but the service didn't have the funds or time to complete the process.

 

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with environmentalists who challenged the service's finding, reversing a lower court's decision. The appellate court did not set a deadline for the agency to make a new decision.

 

The yellow-legged frog was once the most abundant frog in the Sierra Nevada, making its home in high-elevation lakes and streams.

 

But recent surveys have found that the frog had disappeared from 70 to 90 percent of its former habitat. Scientists blame its demise on a number of factors, including the spread of a mysterious fungus and the introduction of trout that eat the frog's eggs.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/15791367.htm

 

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October 18, 2006

 

Photo of yellow legged frog

Yellow legged frog

Photo by Vance Vredenburg / Center for Biological Diversity

 

San Francisco -- The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to comply with its legal obligation under the Endangered Species Act to consider whether Sierra Nevada mountain yellow-legged frogs deserve listing as protected species.

http://www.earthjustice.org/news/press/006/sierra-frog-may-get-endangered-species-protections.html

[Michaelangelica]

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California Frog Granted Protection From Pesticides

 

SAN FRANCISCO, California, October 20, 2006 (ENS) - The Center for Biological Diversity has reached a settlement agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that will protect the threatened California red-legged frog from 66 pesticides.

 

The agreement, signed this week and expected to be approved by a U.S. District Court, prohibits use of these pesticides in and adjacent to core red-legged frog habitats throughout California until the EPA completes formal consultations with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to ensure the chemicals are not jeopardizing or contributing to the decline of the species.

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2006/2006-10-20-09.asp

Perhaps this could also go in DDT sould it be used thread sic.

Do all threads eventually merge and meet together in some cyber space?

[Michaelangelica]

http://www.sungazette.com/outdoors/articles.asp?articleID=10504

 

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Epiphytes create habitat for a wide range of species. An epiphyte plant called tank bromeliad has stiff, upturned leaves that can hold more than two gallons of water.

 

The larvae of a multitude of insects live in these pools and are fed upon by many animals. The water pools of the plant serve as a nursery for the poison-arrow frog tadpoles.

 

The female frog lays her eggs on the forest floor, and after hatching, the tadpoles climb on her back. The female then takes the tadpoles to the bromeliad plant, where she deposits them in the plant’s pools. There, the tadpoles feed upon developing insect larvae.

 

Some species of frogs employ another strategy in which the female returns to the plant’s pool every few days to deposit an infertile egg in the water for the tadpoles to feed on the egg yolk. Some bromeliads are often colonized by stinging ants, which provide the plant with nutrients produced by the ants’ waste and collection of decaying debris.

 

The common name of staghorn fern comes from its fronds (leaves), look like stag horns because they hang down from the plant. In Pennsylvania, we also have a plant (staghorn sumac) named because it looks like a stag’s horn

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[Michaelangelica]

Lucky frogs get their own backpacker's hotel!

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Create a Noah's Ark for frogs in a Panama hotel.

The Hotel Campestre might be their last hope.

If the golden frogs make it, this crumbling backpackers' hangout could very well provide a revolutionary new model for handling one of the world's most endangered species.

http://www.currentargus.com/ci_4556657

[Cedars]

  Michaelangelica said:

Lucky frogs get their own backpacker's hotel!

 

http://www.currentargus.com/ci_4556657

 

I read about this yesterday. I didnt know up to 120 species of frog have been lost in Central America already due to the fungus.

 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Amphibian+Chytridiomycosis+&btnG=Google+Search

 

Kinda makes avian flu pale in comparison (when thinking of bird loss vs frog loss)

[Ganoderma]

It is in North america as well....in fact they are now saying that bullfrogs can carry it without being affected by it! this is very scarry especially for teh west where bullfrogs have proven to be extremely harmful to the environment. Now they carry a deadly fungi to boot. i am unclear how they are unnaffected though :evil:

 

this article seems to need a sign up now ....

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v4/sub/MarketingPage?user_URL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FLAC.20060613.BCFROGS13%2FTPStory%2F%3Fquery%3Dfrog&ord=1162048919227&brand=theglobeandmail&force_login=true

 

better one from the University of Victoria (Canada). i have done some work with uvic with bullfrogs, they are really taking their toll on native species in southern BC!

http://ring.uvic.ca/06july13/bullfrogs.html

[Michaelangelica]

  Ganoderma said:

they carry a deadly fungi to boot. i am unclear how they are unnaffected though :cup:

 

http://www.health24.com/news/Travel/1-953,38241.asp

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Frog skin repels mozzies

Last updated: Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Certain tropical frogs may want flies to get close enough to eat, but not too close.

According to new research, the skin of these amphibians contains a powerful and natural mosquito repellent.

 

But that's only part of the story.

 

The repellent, a toxin dubbed pumiliotoxin 251d, is one of thousands of alkaloid chemicals on the skins of tropical frogs in central and South America, explained researcher John W. Daly, a scientist emeritus at the US National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK), in Bethesda.

May fight autoimmune disease

"I'm interested in this compound because of suggestions that it might have value in finding a treatment for autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes," Daly explained.

 

More to be explored

There are still more properties of the toxins to be explored, he said. "Certain of these alkaloids are antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral," Spande said. "Many of these frog skin alkaloids are being investigated in neurochemistry in blocking certain receptors."

[moo]

Albino frogs... :shrug:

 

http://allaboutfrogs.org/weird/strange/albino.html

Excerpts: "Albino frogs are a fairly common occurance with frogs...

It seems to happen with many different species of frogs and should not be taken to mean that your frog is sick."

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"What you end up with is usually a pinkish or whitish or GHOSTLY looking frog, with really weird-looking red eyes. The eyes appear red because the blood vessels of the retina show through the iris, giving it a pink or reddish color."

 

More weird frog facts:

http://allaboutfrogs.org/weird/weird.html :eswirl:

 

moo

[Michaelangelica]

Here is another colour!

Rare blue tree frog found in Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary | naplesnews.com | Naples Daily News

 

 

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Rare blue tree frog found in Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

 

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

 

Kermit the Frog once lamented, "It's not easy being green."

 

A tree frog in Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary apparently has taken that message to heart.

 

Volunteer naturalists discovered a blue tree frog along the sanctuary's wooden boardwalk recently. The unusual amphibian will go on public display Dec. 27-31 at the Blair Audubon Center at the sanctuary, 15 miles east of Naples off Immokalee Road.

 

Jerry Jackson, a professor at Florida Gulf Coast University, said a blue frog is a rare find indeed.

 

“In the face of overwhelming habitat loss and species extinctions, it is truly great to find something like this,” Jackson said in a statement issued by the sanctuary today.

[gribbon]

  Jay-qu said:

Let me ask a question I was asked a few years back, is a frogs bum water-tight?

 

Interesting question there, Jay...an interesting question:hihi: :cheer:

 

I like frogs to....my favourite ones are the "yellow spotted glass frog" and the "blue-pison dart frog". Here are some photos from google:

 

http://pbskids.org/backyardjungle/files.php/4436_discovery_f.jpg

 

 

[gribbon]

Sure,Michaelangelica, here are some more::D :doh: ;)

 

They are from: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/Grzimek_herps/Dendrobatidae/Dendrobates_pumilio.jpg/medium.jpg, http://www.abc.net.au/science/scribblygum/june2004/img/f_frog.jpg, http://www.savethelemur.org/images/madagascar-frog-1.jpg

 

 

 

[Ganoderma]

the blue frogs are actually a type of albino frog. frogs use blue and yellow to make the green. albinism means lacking pigment, blue frogs lack yellow pigment. the same can be had for yellow frogs which lack blue pigment. some treefrogs that are yellow/blue albinos are sold in the pet trade. incredibly pretty!

 

bums are not so much water tight. many frogs stick their rumps in water to soak it up (many treefrogs do this).

 

i forget the species name but there are some frogs that raise their young in their young inside and the babies come out when they are "developed". similar to some caecilian devolpment i bleive... can't remember which ones for the life of me though :beer:

 

froggies are such interesting creatures.

[Michaelangelica]

  Ganoderma said:

the blue frogs are actually a type of albino frog. frogs use blue and yellow to make the green. albinism means lacking pigment, blue frogs lack yellow pigment. the same can be had for yellow frogs which lack blue pigment. some treefrogs that are yellow/blue albinos are sold in the pet trade. incredibly pretty!

amazing i think i need to be an artist to understand this

 

  Ganoderma said:

bums are not so much water tight. many frogs stick their rumps in water to soak it up (many treefrogs do this).

I have the same problem:)

 

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i forget the species name but there are some frogs that raise their young in their young inside and the babies come out when they are "developed". similar to some caecilian devolpment i bleive... can't remember which ones for the life of me though :beer:

I have seen this on TV. can't remember the species S. american?

 

  Ganoderma said:

froggies are such interesting creatures.

You sound like my daughter! She has 1,000 frogs some of which sing Country and western Music!

 

http://www.ioltravel.co.za/article/view/3553330

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Enjoy a ribbiting rave at an annual frog fest

November 20 2006

By Lindsey Sanderson

 

It is all happening on Saturday, December 2, at Florence Guest Farm, just outside Chrissiesmeer in Mpumalanga. This year there will be extra celebrations as it is the 10th Frog Festival and Frogging Night to be held in Matotoland.

 

Matotoland was so called because the Scots, who settled in the area between Chrissiesmeer and Swaziland in 1860s, could not get their tongues around the clicks of the siSwati word for a frog - Maxoxo.

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However, Ana and Nico Steinberg, who host the event, have guaranteed that there are no frogs playing the bagpipes!

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Frogs are extremely important in assessing the health of the environment as they are sensitive to pollution and land degradation. In places of high pollution, frogs have been found deformed, with missing or extra limbs and strange growths on their bodies. In some areas where frogs were found in abundance, they have totally disappeared.

 

The frog hunt begins at sunset, when froggers make their way to the pans armed with torches and plastic bags and wearing gum boots, tackies and old clothes. A sharp eye, keen ear and agility are key to the successful bagging of the sprightly amphibians.

 

The noise is deafening as the frogs croak, whistle, and trill in an attempt to find a suitable mate. And, though the frogs come in all sorts of hues and colour combinations, from spotted, striped to dotted with red, green, yellow and black, it is not the sight of a handsome male that attracts the nubile females but the songs that they sing that have them swooning in the embrace of loud-mouthed males.

 

Once bagged, the frogs are identified, listed and checked over for any signs of ill-health that would indicate pollution. They are then released back into the pan. Prizes are given for the first frog found, the biggest frog and the smallest frog and the most unusual frog. So far, 13 species have been found in the area with a new one - Breviceps Mossambicus - being found a few months ago.