This is neither here nor there, but I have a bull frog out on the pond and from the sound of him, the hole in his pecker weight 3 pounds! He's a big boy!
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Bull Frog
- Thread starter thuban
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I'ma steal that description of "big"...
Downeaster, You braggert! Hehehe
Jeremiah, dat you?
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I built a 1,000 gallon pond on my patio about 25 years ago. It took a couple of years for the bullfrogs to find it, but I've had them ever since. Two competing males will be unbelievably loud. Fortunately, the sound doesn't bother me at all, I like it.
The females lay literally thousands of egg in a gelatinous string several meters long. I think they must synthesize that string as they expel it, because there's no way their bodies could contain all that stuff.
My goldfish feast on the tadpoles for half a day, then they all get sick because the tadpoles are mildly poisonous. A few of the goldys die every year, but that's okay, they reproduce freely in the pond. The adult bullfrogs are also poisonous -- my dog and cats won't touch them.
All of that gelatinous egg string stuff also pollutes the pond, spiking the nitrogen level. So, if I notice those strings, I try to pull as much out as possible. I also sieve as many of the tadpoles out as possible. There will be thousands and thousands of them, and they use up all of the oxygen in the water.
But plenty of tadpoles survive. In the fall, I'll run across these amazing tiny baby bullfrogs about the size of a pencil eraser in my gardens.
The females lay literally thousands of egg in a gelatinous string several meters long. I think they must synthesize that string as they expel it, because there's no way their bodies could contain all that stuff.
My goldfish feast on the tadpoles for half a day, then they all get sick because the tadpoles are mildly poisonous. A few of the goldys die every year, but that's okay, they reproduce freely in the pond. The adult bullfrogs are also poisonous -- my dog and cats won't touch them.
All of that gelatinous egg string stuff also pollutes the pond, spiking the nitrogen level. So, if I notice those strings, I try to pull as much out as possible. I also sieve as many of the tadpoles out as possible. There will be thousands and thousands of them, and they use up all of the oxygen in the water.
But plenty of tadpoles survive. In the fall, I'll run across these amazing tiny baby bullfrogs about the size of a pencil eraser in my gardens.
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When I was a kid, we used to gather up those masses of frog eggs and put them in an unused stock tank. Had our own little frog farm...
Good one, De! Frogs are Nature's mosquito control. And with all the nasty stuff they're blaming on mosquitoes, more frogs = less nasty! And when the frogs overrun an area, start wrangling them up, chop 'em, bread 'em, & fry 'em! Haven't you heard of fried frog legs? Tastes just like amphibian!
Yes frog legs are GOOD.
They do make you a little jumpy afterwards.
They do make you a little jumpy afterwards.
When at primary school some of the boys used to talk about inflating frogs by putting a drinking straw up them and blowing. Could there be any truth to this story? Maybe that's why Jeremiah was a bullfrog?
These same boys believed decent folk got pregnant by kissing and Bruce Lee's muscles got so well developed they strangled his brain....
These same boys believed decent folk got pregnant by kissing and Bruce Lee's muscles got so well developed they strangled his brain....
…….boys used to talk about inflating frogs by putting a drinking straw up them and blowing.
There is a thing called an "Oklahoma Credit Card". It's a siphon hose. ( Neighbor kids came over one day, wanted to know if I had one. Wanted to take it to school for show-and-tell)
Anyway, some of us that has used one, has had it back-flow from time to time. *Spits* So a frog inflator? Can you imagine what that back-flow taste like?
Nah, them Brits be shitin ya' if your not careful, I think.
There is a thing called an "Oklahoma Credit Card". It's a siphon hose. ( Neighbor kids came over one day, wanted to know if I had one. Wanted to take it to school for show-and-tell)
Anyway, some of us that has used one, has had it back-flow from time to time. *Spits* So a frog inflator? Can you imagine what that back-flow taste like?
Nah, them Brits be shitin ya' if your not careful, I think.
