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Frog Info, Territorial?| hjbartling |
Posted: Aug 4 2012, 04:35 PM
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As I mentioned three frogs showed up at my newly built backyard pond last summer. They stayed and survived our mild southern NJ winter. No new frogs have shown up this summer. Is that strange? It just seems weird to me that three come the first year and so far none this year. Joanne
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| Robyn |
Posted: Aug 4 2012, 06:50 PM
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Yes, the males are territorial. They will fight. Females are more quiet and less likely to be noticed. It could also be that last year was more wet than this year in NJ? In drought, frogs aren't going to travel much.
-------------------- Robyn, Former Analytical Chemist, Zone 6/7, Maryland
Servant to 4 cats, 2 rabbits, 3 guinea pigs, 3 chickens, 1 redbellied turtle, 3 freshwater aquariums (65, 50, & 20 gallons), 2 saltwater aquariums (6 and 12 gallon nano cube reefs), 7 outdoor ponds (1800, 153, 50, 30, 20, 20, & 12 gallons), 1 indoor pond (50 gallons, winter only), crickets, mealworms, six-spotted roaches, and hundreds of fish (of about 18+ species), amphibians, snails, shrimp, corals, crabs, worms, and so on in those aquariums and ponds. A mostly full list of my current animals is at http://www.fishpondinfo.com/animals/animallist.htm   http://www.fishpondinfo.com http://www.pondshowcase.com |
 
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| Rosiemeadow |
Posted: Aug 5 2012, 10:02 AM
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I had 10 frogs in my pond & most have vanished, just a couple left they hop around from my big pond to my tiny one, but I did find two baby bullfrogs out there this past week, although their not there today so they could have become the bigger frogs snack
 who knows! They were so cute though, they look like baby dill pickles with legs.  -------------------- |
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| Broxandval |
Posted: Aug 5 2012, 04:35 PM
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There may be another reason for your lack of frogs this year as the are under attck from a mystery virus that basically causes the poor thing to die minus limbs that rot off etc its here in the UK and I know there is a strain tracking up to North America from the South caused by man would you believe .
it got oput of a lab and infected the local population its been on a slow burn up through ever since . Its not a nice way to go for the poor frog . I pray that this has not befallen your frogs rgrds DaveandVal.  -------------------- Weve been Keeping Koi now for 26 year's we have 20 Koi, 1 orfe , 6 newts, a rescue female cat aged 4 called Suki (four white socks white running from chin to chest, white streak down belly the, body being black, have a russian blue type cat with while leg markings white chin etc and the cutest young boy cat, Jet black in colour (who has two tails)
A growing collection of fishy art and Badger/Otter/Dolphin/koi fine art prints. Collection of Figurines/Plates/Cups/Slates/Clocks all of them are Badger/Otter/Cat/Dolphin Collect Benaya koi tiles. Large Library of Koi/Koi/Fish Health Books plus another Library of Tropical Fish/Fish Health Books. Member of the Koi Magazines Koi Hall Of Fame. Our deceased cat family:- RIP Dusty 1990- 2008 RIP Dillon 1997- 2010 RIP Sammy 1989-2007 RIP Baby 1991-2006 RIP SpookyII 1995-97 RIP Spooky 1990-95 Time Zone GMT Note:- Vals birthday 19/3/59 http://xat.com/FishPondInfo |
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| Robyn |
Posted: Aug 6 2012, 10:21 AM
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I don't know about that one. Do you have a link Dave? The Chytrid fungus is the one that is killing off many frog populations, and it's worldwide now.
-------------------- Robyn, Former Analytical Chemist, Zone 6/7, Maryland
Servant to 4 cats, 2 rabbits, 3 guinea pigs, 3 chickens, 1 redbellied turtle, 3 freshwater aquariums (65, 50, & 20 gallons), 2 saltwater aquariums (6 and 12 gallon nano cube reefs), 7 outdoor ponds (1800, 153, 50, 30, 20, 20, & 12 gallons), 1 indoor pond (50 gallons, winter only), crickets, mealworms, six-spotted roaches, and hundreds of fish (of about 18+ species), amphibians, snails, shrimp, corals, crabs, worms, and so on in those aquariums and ponds. A mostly full list of my current animals is at http://www.fishpondinfo.com/animals/animallist.htm http://www.fishpondinfo.com http://www.pondshowcase.com |
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| Broxandval |
 Posted: Aug 6 2012, 08:11 PM
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I posted about this before on FPI Robyn you'd have to have a look through various threads about it and I think I linked it to a storey about this dreadful dreadful thing rgrds DaveandVal -------------------- Weve been Keeping Koi now for 26 year's we have 20 Koi, 1 orfe , 6 newts, a rescue female cat aged 4 called Suki (four white socks white running from chin to chest, white streak down belly the, body being black, have a russian blue type cat with while leg markings white chin etc and the cutest young boy cat, Jet black in colour (who has two tails)
A growing collection of fishy art and Badger/Otter/Dolphin/koi fine art prints. Collection of Figurines/Plates/Cups/Slates/Clocks all of them are Badger/Otter/Cat/Dolphin Collect Benaya koi tiles. Large Library of Koi/Koi/Fish Health Books plus another Library of Tropical Fish/Fish Health Books. Member of the Koi Magazines Koi Hall Of Fame. Our deceased cat family:- RIP Dusty 1990- 2008 RIP Dillon 1997- 2010 RIP Sammy 1989-2007 RIP Baby 1991-2006 RIP SpookyII 1995-97 RIP Spooky 1990-95 Time Zone GMT Note:- Vals birthday 19/3/59 http://xat.com/FishPondInfo |
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| Painteds4life |
Posted: Aug 11 2012, 06:18 PM
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Im going with that is the answer since nj is miles away from me. It wasnt hot at all last summer. It got wet it, stayed wet. This summer its hot hot hot. Dry Dry Dry. --------------------  Turtles Are Like Potato Chips, You Cant Have Just One! http://xat.com/FishPondInfo The Fishpondinfo Chat Room |
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| Rosiemeadow |
Posted: Aug 11 2012, 10:20 PM
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Woo hoo, I found another baby bullfrog in the pond today! I keep finding a very tiny one under a flat flagstone in the rocks behind my pool, I move it to the little pond & I find it again the next day under the rock, I wonder why it keeps going back there, maybe it is afraid of the bigger ones. Oh my, I hope I am not tempting the big ones with "baby dill pickle froggy" for a snack
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