Title: Yellow-legged Frog
llgrennan - October 10, 2007 06:00 PM (GMT)
The frog in my avatar is a yellow-legged frog. Right now, my pond has close to 100 of them! Most of them are shy and dive for cover when I approach the pond.
The frog pictured is "Frish". He swims out to the fish when I feed them, and dines on fish food. :huh: The other 99+ frogs only seem interested in bugs. Does anyone have frogs that eat fish food, or have other unusual behaviors?
Lori
Robyn - October 10, 2007 06:32 PM (GMT)
Frogs normally only eat live animals so you're froggy is special! My frogs tend to just act like frogs.
littlenessie - October 12, 2007 05:59 PM (GMT)
That is interesting to hear that you have a frog that eats fish food.
My froggies all munch freeze dried crickets. Is that unusual? They were kind of trained to eat them by letting the crickets roll down a sloped rock. Maybe it sort of looked like the crickets were alive and running away? Now, as soon as a cricket hits the water, it is pretty much a feeding frenzy and it's hard to tell which one actually ate it. LOL I usually know when Olive didn't get his cricket because he complains by going "urp urp URRP!" Olive is my little talking green frog. If I ask "does Olive want a bug?" he croaks back too.
Robyn - October 12, 2007 07:16 PM (GMT)
Frogs can be trained to think dead bugs are alive and then eat them. If a frog though has never before been exposed to the antics of us humans, they will usually ignore deceased prey unless they happen to be rolling around. I wonder if they would eat non-edible things that happen to move? That wouldn't be good. I can picture kids now rolling gummy worms down hills for frogs to eat.
littlenessie - October 13, 2007 12:28 AM (GMT)
LOL! I bet they would try to eat a gummy worm. Especially if it rolled and didn't just stick to the rock. The only problem is that worms have two ends and there would probably be a tug-of-war type of fight over it.... and it wouldn't be very pretty. :ph43r:
llgrennan - October 13, 2007 01:46 AM (GMT)
Freeze-dried crickets?! Wow, your frogs must be very happy :D I never thought to feed them, and I expect my DH might object (as we are feeding so many mouths already - dogs, cats, fish, birds, squirrels, etc!)
I have seen my frogs catch yellow-jackets. It seems that if they don't catch them just right, they get bit. They spit them out in a hurry!!! But another frog comes along right away to steal the first frog's meal.
Frish is happy to swim along with the fish and eat the floating sticks. :) I think he may be having an identity crisis!
Lori