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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: RTR on August 18, 2008, 07:57:50 PM
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I have a small garden pond (Ty wallyworld) in my backyard. For most of the summer we have been falling asleep to the sound of a horny frog creaking and croaking. Well, now I have a pond full of tadpoles!
It's kinda neat actually, a few have already started to sprout little back legs.
So I have a couple of questions for the Tadpole aficionados here. I am hesitant to turn on the pump and pump the water upstream into the creek bed as I'm scared it will deposit the tadpoles on the rocks in the creek. So as it stands now the water is stagnant. They seem to be doing okay anyway. I don't want to kill them as my neighbors kids are small, and they are totally enamoured with the idea of a tadpole nursery.(what can I say...my kids are grown and I don't have grandkids yet).
Also, how long does it take for them to become frogs? I seem to remember it's only a couple of weeks, am I right?
It's kinda fun to see LOL.
cheers,
RTR
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Be gentle?
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In the spring I usually have a large amount of frogs serenading me from the pond out back but as the temp climbs we here less and less out of them until the fall again.
I would be worrying cooking the little things if the water warms to much. I know my buddy from Calgary was saying it was high 30's last week. Been that here too.
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I have a small garden pond (Ty wallyworld) in my backyard. For most of the summer we have been falling asleep to the sound of a horny frog creaking and croaking. Well, now I have a pond full of tadpoles!
No wonder he was creaking and croaking. Getting it on freaky frog style :rofl :rofl :cry
Im funny.
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i have a turtle pond, so my tadpoles are food but i like them just the same. As far as the pump i would
definitely have it on for the extra oxygen it creates. From where they are at you are correct two weeks
(son wanted a turtle wife said not in the house who's the sucker now)
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I have a small garden pond (Ty wallyworld) in my backyard. For most of the summer we have been falling asleep to the sound of a horny frog creaking and croaking. Well, now I have a pond full of tadpoles!
cheers,
RTR
you know what that means
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Frogs Legs
Recipe courtesy of Graham Kerr
Show: The Galloping Gourmet
Episode: Frogs' Legs
4 pairs of frogs legs
All purpose flour
Clarified butter
Salt, black pepper
2 garlic cloves, finely smashed
2 tablespoons parsley, roughly chopped
1 tablespoon fresh basil, finely chopped, or 1 teaspoon dried*
1 tablespoon fresh chives, finely chopped, or 1 teaspoon dried*
1 tablespoon fresh tarragon, finely chopped, or 1 teaspoon dried*
1/4 cup Calvados, heated
1/4 cup dry white wine, plus 2 tablespoons
Large Granny Smith apple
2 tablespoons sour cream
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
2 teaspoons capers
*If dried herbs are used tie these in a muslin bag
Separate frogs legs and dry thoroughly with a cloth. Lightly flour. Place some clarified butter in a frying pan on the heat and add the floured and seasoned frogs legs. Fry gently. Smother the frogs legs with the smashed garlic and turn the legs after 2 minutes. Add the herbs in the pan and then pour over heated Calvados and set alight - give the pan a good shake and then add the dry white wine. Reduce the heat - cover and allow to cook gently for 4 minutes. Cut the apple in half - scoop out the center with a teaspoon leaving 1/4-inch of flesh around the outside. Heat broiler unit to medium. Place the apple under the broiler for 10 minutes. Season the frogs legs with salt and pepper, add the sour cream, Worcestershire sauce and capers and then the 2 tablespoons of dry white wine. Stir gently to combine. Place the frogs legs on a heated serving dish - coat with a little of the sauce and serve the rest of the sauce in the broiled apple halves.
:D
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AHA! I gotcha' beat!
I have Crabs!!
Not just your average crabs, either! These are King Crabs!!!
...thats "crotch crickets" to you people in Washington. :uhoh
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:rofl :rofl
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:rofl :rofl :rofl
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Hey Dred, that looks pretty good! Maybe we'll have a small barbcue in a couple weeks! ('course I'll have to tell the wee ones it's actually chicken and we sent the frogs off to live in a pond on a farm hehe).
Druss, sorry about your case of the crabs man, but King Crabs? Are you sure yer straight? :huh
RTR
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Druss, sorry about your case of the crabs man, but King Crabs? Are you sure yer straight? :huh
RTR
Are you kiddin'? I have an entire ecosystem in my Fruit-Of-The-Looms, man! Shore leave in Bali...oh my god,,,,
Do you know what its like trying to sleep at night while the big bulls are fighting each other for breeding purposes and territorial disputes?! Its kill or be killed, the quick and the dead, survival of the fittest! The armor-plated predators versus the dug-in (literally) defenders. The honking (females) and roaring (males) goes on to all hours! I have to go now. Its getting dark. They will be awake soon...
...it's a living hell....
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Are you kiddin'? I have an entire ecosystem in my Fruit-Of-The-Looms, man! Shore leave in Bali...oh my god,,,,
Do you know what its like trying to sleep at night while the big bulls are fighting each other for breeding purposes and territorial disputes?! Its kill or be killed, the quick and the dead, survival of the fittest! The armor-plated predators versus the dug-in (literally) defenders. The honking (females) and roaring (males) goes on to all hours! I have to go now. Its getting dark. They will be awake soon...
...it's a living hell....
ROFLMAO!
Thanks for the much needed laugh Druss!
Every once in a while a bit of gold peaks throught the curtains of the O'club! :lol
RTR
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ya know Druss, you dont have to live that way, theres a way to rid yourself of the torment....
Shave one side, set fire to the other side, and wait with an ice pick... you can do it.... :rock
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Problem with the pump is it might suck them up into it and kill them one by one. "unless you have a screen on the intake,before it runs to the pump, if they hit the blades in there, they have no chance.
Tadpoles also do not need fresh or clean water, and have gills as they can breath in mostly any type of water, once front legs start, you will see them start to come to the edges more, the tail will shrink and they will take there first gasps of air.
Also important to note,that tadpoles eat the green (the green slop), so do not make the water clean, but you also dont need to have it crystal clean, altho it wont kill them, it will deprive them of food.
In no time you will have a buncha lil hopping things around.
Congrats your gonna be a grandfather of oh..40+ toads or frogs.
Good news is you will be hard pressed to find any type of bug after the lil guys get feet dry, so to speak.
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AHA! I gotcha' beat!
I have Crabs!!
Not just your average crabs, either! These are King Crabs!!!
...thats "crotch crickets" to you people in Washington. :uhoh
I recommend the kerosene and hammer cure.
First you pour a capful of kerosene into the effected area.
The crabs trying to escape this will naturally move to the head.
Once they are all there. Smash the little buggers withthe hammer
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in a week at night alll yer gonna her is ribit ribit ribit
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bleach in the water works every time :devil
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Tardpole update :)
No landgrabbers yet, and the pond is looking a little brackish. They are hugging the sides though.
Also saw some new ones (I think because they are pretty small).
Think I will have to turn the pump on for a while and circulate the water to clean it up a bit, as I suspect I have lost a few.
RTR
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RTR....you are only a day or so away from THE MASS EXODUS!
VERY soon they will use those new found back legs to crawl up on the edge (ususlly starting an hour or so before dusk).
As they begin to dry---their tail will fall off and they are free to be dry amphibians.
Some (10-20) will still hang around your garden for a few days, but after that--they are gone. The only ones that will stay behind are the ones that don't complete the leg growing phase and die off.
After that, I'd drain the pool....clean it out, and then refill with new water and start over.
The brackish gunk you see now is a natural way to keep them out of sight of predators until they grow legs and can leave.
We had 3 batches (annual) of tree frogs to that at out place in the dog's swimming pool. You may not have know it but the mom/dad checked out your place for some time before laying eggs.
Good Luck!
After about a year, tree frogs are cool aquarium amphibians. They will come down and hang out in the water dish at night and hang out on the walls during the day. They are nocturnal.
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