Category: frogs
As you may recall, the fraggle of new frogs was put into quarantine to make sure they weren’t going to bring any strange froggy diseases into Copernicus’ tank. Sadly, on day 6 of the 7 day quarantine ((Note: 7 days was chosen completely arbitrarily because there’s no good information out there on the interwebs to […]
So I was feeling bad that poor Copernicus was all alone – African dwarf frogs are social animals who get lonely without some buddies – so a new fraggle of frogs has been purchased. “Fraggle of frogs”, for the uninitiated, is what one calls a group of frogs – much like you have a herd […]
Note: I wrote this posting on March 11 and totally thought I’d posted it (and I was wondering why no one had commented on it), but I just discovered it in my drafts, so apparently I had saved it rather than posting it. Things have not been going well in the tank. When I last […]
Devon came home from work with the best Valentine’s Day present ever – two new frogs! Ever since we lost Rocky and Torpedo, our family of wee frogs has been too wee. They were not, as it were, supernumerary frogs, but rather an integral part of the frog family ((On a practical level, we feed […]
We first noticed Torpedo ((At least we think it’s Torpedo who is missing. I usually distinguish Torpedo from the other frogs because she’s the biggest one, but without her being there next to the other frogs to compare, it’s hard to be sure.)) was missing one day at feeding time. It’s not uncommon to not […]
Christmas really snuck up on me this year and I can hardly believe it’s Christmas Eve already. I did the least amount of Christmas baking ever, as my plans for an evening of Christmas baking last Wednesday were thwarted by poor bridge design. I did cinnamon buns for a Christmas breakfast potluck at work on […]
My frogs are going to be parents! The day before yesterday I noticed that Torpedo looked like she had some translucent eggs coming out of, for lack of a better word, her bum ((OK, technically the word is her “cloaca”, but I figured you wouldn’t know what that was. Well, except for Erika & Linda, […]
When I got home after work today, I noticed one of the frogs doing this: That cube that he’s floating up against is the filter for the frog tank. Water gets sucked in the bottom – i.e., where the frog is – goes through a filter and comes out like a fountain at the top. […]
We returned home on the weekend to a sad sight. Rocky, one of our beloved frogs, had escaped from the frog tank and dehydrated to death. =( Aquatic frogs need to be immersed in water – they will die if they are out of water for more than about 20 minutes. Somehow, Rocky had escaped […]
Hey, remember that time that I said I was going to do some kind of physical activity every day in August? Apparently I didn’t. I started off strong, with some running and walking and hiking and a few token pushups on days that I spent driving long distances. And then at some point I seem […]