A Frog Where It Should Not Be

[Baccus]

I was checking the filter on my AR-380 Aqua one tank that is currently living on the back patio and discovered this guy had made himself a happy little home...

Well that explains why the water was a tad sluggish coming out of the return flow to the tank, as well as the sudden silence of a hum the spray bar had developed , but some how I doubt the manufactorer specified to add one Green Tree Frog to prevent hums occurring in the filter system .

Now he's discovered this wonderful oasis he is never going to give up his home.

 

[Better is Betta]

I was checking the filter on my AR-380 Aqua one tank that is currently living on the back patio and discovered this guy had made himself a happy little home...

Well that explains why the water was a tad sluggish coming out of the return flow to the tank, as well as the sudden silence of a hum the spray bar had developed , but some how I doubt the manufactorer specified to add one Green Tree Frog to prevent hums occurring in the filter system .

Now he's discovered this wonderful oasis he is never going to give up his home.

HA! thats amazing a frog! I couldn't make out what your pic was at first. It looked so alien. But when you mentioned it was a frog then it all came clear. What happened to his colour....or is it the flash that has washed out his green colour. I can't understand why it isn't coughing and spluttering with all that water running over it. He seems quite at home not a worry in the world.

 

[Baccus]

I tried making him move but he just hunkered down even more, I guess he's just holding his breathe in the photo's because he can lift his nose above the water to get air.

I knew some of my resident frogs go for swims in my tanks, but deciding to live in the filter I think is really starting to push the levels of our friendship .

 

[nurglespuss]

lol your lucky you get such interesting wildlife! I'd love that!

he can absorb oxygen (and water) through his skin too - I would probably oust him and seal your filter though, as you might end up with a filterfull!

 

[Baccus]

I do love my frogs, they are one of the main reasons I don't use poisons around my house, guess that's also why I sometimes get dragonflies by the hundreds zooming around my yard along with plenty of other insects and the things that eat them.

I also added a native bee hive to my backyard, great little guys that have no sting. They will bite but you have to REALLY aggrevate them, and its quite rare for anyone to have a severe reaction to the bite unlike the introduced European Bees which my husband is allergic to.

I really need to clean up the jungle in the front yard and see if I still have two blue tongue lizards in residence, I hope they are still living it up in the garden eating all the snails and slugs.

 

[nurglespuss]

Wow....

Oh so tempted to leave damp Wales and head to Australia!

 

[Baccus]

The hardest part would be working out where to live, out west where human contact and water are rare, up North where you have beautiful beaches you can't use because of the crocs and also get cyclones, way down south where it's so cold and snowy you might as well be back in England or somewhere in between. It's certainly an interesting place to live and I have been lucky enough to live both far North and quite South. The only place I haven't been is way out west or to Western Australia, South Australia or Canberrra.
I could see you now coming here and because you can't get all the fish, shrimp, snails, aquatic frogs etc that are available in England/ Europe, going totally native and filling the house with all manner of Aussie critters .

 

[nurglespuss]

Absolutely! and the houses you guys can get... are huge... I could have some big tanks!

 

[Baccus]

Just remember what you call "garden" we call yard and what we call garden is where the actual plants aside from grass is grown in beds. Trust me the houses aren't that big, that's why my tanks are in the car shed.

 

[nurglespuss]

Darn! Neighbours and relocation relocation are misleading! ;p

 

[Baccus]

Mind you some of the big old Queenslander houses are huge and stunning , especially if they are well maintained. Many areas of Australia are getting such dense urban development that the yards are getting down to as small as 550square metres. I'm lucky we built our house just before the huge boom in my area so the land was cheap (only $33 000 where as now smaller blocks start at $80 000) and my actual land size is 897 square metres. With most new houses in the area going for $300 000 - $500 000, it makes more sense for us to build an extension on our house rather than try to buy any where else. And you thought England was expensive .

 

[nurglespuss]

LOL here in Wales, my little 3 bedroom terraced house has a back garden of 22x5m lol ;p and cost the equiv. of 137293 A$ ;p