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Post by Syble on Oct 2, 2006 18:22:40 GMT -5
just wanted to share a picture of my tads, they're growing like cape sundews! I had an eventfull weekend and just had a chance to really look at them today and they doubled in size over the weekend! Thanks, Sib
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Post by lloyd on Oct 2, 2006 19:37:16 GMT -5
This forum is a bad influence on me. Not only do I have more weird containers of vegetation and peat & sand and CP books and pamphlets lying around but I have a compulsion to have tree frogs and tissue culture. Is there a CP Counselling group? By the way, Sib what is that aquatic plant you have with the tadpoles?
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Post by Syble on Oct 2, 2006 21:29:19 GMT -5
LOL, heres the kicker, not an aquatic plant, actually a very big problem in lawns!!! Give up? creeping charlie! when I was a kid, I used to raise tad poles up by the hundreds every spring, I'd have an bunch of the big square margarine tubs like that and throw a couple sprigs of creeping charlie in there. it addapts remarkably well to being a watter, aside from sending out a varriety of roots at the nodes, it becomes hairy. the nice thing is that there is no shortage! Thanks, Sib
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Post by Flytrap on Oct 3, 2006 11:26:50 GMT -5
My big eye tads are growing like little monsters. Eating everything I chuck into the aquarium. I can't wait until I've got little froglets hopping about!
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Post by pem on Oct 3, 2006 13:43:50 GMT -5
lloyd I know the feeling I can't walk past a petshop now without looking to see what frogs they have in stock, and my dorm doesn't even allow pets lol.
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Post by Syble on Oct 3, 2006 19:35:15 GMT -5
aw come on! frogs have got to be the easiest critters to keep! besides, have a growing terrarioum and if someone asks where the frogs came from, act all shocked and claim its a miricale and your seeing it for the first time! Sib
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Post by Flytrap on Oct 13, 2006 10:04:05 GMT -5
are these bigeye tads cannibals? I thought I saw them gnawing on one of their own...but they wiggled up a cloud of dirt at the bottom, hiding the evidence, when they saw me probing about.
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Post by Syble on Oct 13, 2006 19:16:21 GMT -5
Hmmm, I don't think mine have been eating each other, I'm doing a complete change/cleaning this weekend, so I'll count and look for missing chunks. I do know that they have kicked the crap outta the creeping charlie I have in there with them. Thanks, Sib
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Post by Syble on Nov 29, 2006 20:23:54 GMT -5
Just thought I'd give an update. Talk about growing! Also haveing the"change" they all have back legs, some even have the beginnings for the fronts. I've long since given up on keeping a plant in with them, they decimate it and it's just one more thing to deal with when cleaning it. Also to answer your question earlier flytrap, No, Mine atleast are not canabolistic. Thanks, Sib
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Post by lloyd on Nov 29, 2006 21:24:27 GMT -5
What do they eat?
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Post by Syble on Nov 29, 2006 22:39:26 GMT -5
started them off on ground up freeze dried bloodworms, but their on freeze dreid daphinia now. Sib
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Post by Syble on Dec 20, 2006 9:11:02 GMT -5
Just another update, got 1 that has all 4 legs now. Strangest thing, because I'm always looking at them, one day, there was one with 3 well developed legs, which gave me a guilt complex thinking I had damaged the other one while cleaning or something. then the next day I noticed the one with 4 and couldn't find the one with 3. I know what your thinking, I was mistaken, I wasn't, I looked close and carefully, and often... but anyways, here he is, now comes to sit on my finger thanks, Sib
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Post by seedling on Dec 20, 2006 11:11:53 GMT -5
So Syble,
For the legs, do you pan or deep fry them? ;D
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Post by Flytrap on Dec 27, 2006 19:19:53 GMT -5
Mine are just starting to develop hind legs. I guess their development has been delayed due to the fact that they're all inside a cooler room in my home. I'll relocate them to a warmer location to speed up their growth.
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Post by Syble on Dec 27, 2006 22:19:19 GMT -5
mine are just in my bedroom on a dresser... they are at varried stages of development. 3 are 4 legged with tails(one looks like hes losing his, or absorbing it), the rest have legs. Sib
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