guppler
Fish Crazy
I finally took my cories in to the LPS. They are really kinda busy, but I think I got a pretty good deal at $1 each for 43 fishies ranging from about 3-6 months old. Anyway, I was in a pet store and I had a little money, so I couldn't just leave with all the money, even if we were running out of time to do stuff before Christmas. I ended up walking out with 6 ghost shrimp, 4 marbled hatchets, 1 coolie loach, 1 yoyo loach, and 1 ADF, at least I'm pretty sure that's what it is.
I saw the cloacal extension, if it's just a little bit of a bump, so I'm more sure of the gender than the species. she does have some webbing on her front hands, but her fingers also look pointy and her back feet definitely have at least 3 plack claws each, along with possibly 2 smaller white claws.
I've wanted a frog for a while, and they had a lot of healthy loooking ones, and I realized i could use my 10g with the nice flourescent rood and possible slight leak way up near the top of 1 corner that I just moved all the cory fry out of. I was thinking it could be quarantine for all the new guys for now.
I put in a treasure chest for the loaches, and grabbed all my floating plastic flowers from everybody and a good bunch of greenery, including 3 ' strings of anacharis from the comunity. One of the fake plants from the comunity came with a golden apple snail a little bigger than your average marble, but i figured that would be fine, and I also let them have a few tiny pest snails to see if anybody wanted to eat them.
So anyway, about the time I got tired of waiting for the fish to join the non fish which had already left their bags, I noticed the frog standing all crouched down on the bottom, like it was stalking something, and it was staring at the big yellow snail, but I thought, "that snail is almost as big as the frog,. Maybe it's going for the shrimp on the other side of the snail, or a smaller snail, or something., well pretty soon, the frog nipped at the snial, which tucked all it's appendages in quick.
I released the fish and the yoyo was hiding under the treasure chest imediately, with the coolie slithering up and down the walls and testing out spots behind sponge filters and stuff. The hatchets seemed a little confused, as only 2 were at the top and it took me a while to find the one standing on the floor a little too close to the frog, but I haven't seen the frog go after a fish yet. It did nip at a shrimp that walked too close and attacked the yellow snail twice more, while my mom was checing on us, so i took the snail out and handed it to her to go put it in a guppy tank. I also put in a small critterkeeper and picked up the snaileasily with my hand and dropped it in with a few pesty little snails. Then i sprinkled a tiny bit of about 4 different kinds of food in and watched until i had to go eat dinner. The frog is still in the critter keeper within the 10g tank, and she hasn't tried to get out, as far as I can tell.
Anyway, she was anoying me, because my selective memmory was telling me they eat fish food and shouldn't bother anything I want to keep, in fact we saw one in the store chewing on green flaky stuff. I'm wondering if I should take her back and just not have a frog right now or trade her for a smaller one that ddoesn't seem to want to spend all it's time on the bottom, or intoduce her to a betta, or let her have her own critter keeper, or declare this tank the one for creatures that caan't be trusted with babies and let her stay there, and maybe add more similar creatures. I'm guessing she would probably not get along well with the semiaggressive brackish critters I haven't been able to put with anything else (like gobies, puffers, and flounders)
Would another frog species go with her, or a newt?
Is this an unusually aggressive frog.
is she the wrong species after all?
Her nose looks piggish, but doesn't look as tubular as I thought they were suposed to be.
I'll have to look at the eyes again. She doesn't want to show me her hands right now, but I saw some webbing, but not all the way to the fingertips.
I have to take her back tomorrow to get all my money back.
I hope she hasn't killed anybody important yet, she was looking a little fat and tired the last timme I checked.
I saw the cloacal extension, if it's just a little bit of a bump, so I'm more sure of the gender than the species. she does have some webbing on her front hands, but her fingers also look pointy and her back feet definitely have at least 3 plack claws each, along with possibly 2 smaller white claws.
I've wanted a frog for a while, and they had a lot of healthy loooking ones, and I realized i could use my 10g with the nice flourescent rood and possible slight leak way up near the top of 1 corner that I just moved all the cory fry out of. I was thinking it could be quarantine for all the new guys for now.
I put in a treasure chest for the loaches, and grabbed all my floating plastic flowers from everybody and a good bunch of greenery, including 3 ' strings of anacharis from the comunity. One of the fake plants from the comunity came with a golden apple snail a little bigger than your average marble, but i figured that would be fine, and I also let them have a few tiny pest snails to see if anybody wanted to eat them.
So anyway, about the time I got tired of waiting for the fish to join the non fish which had already left their bags, I noticed the frog standing all crouched down on the bottom, like it was stalking something, and it was staring at the big yellow snail, but I thought, "that snail is almost as big as the frog,. Maybe it's going for the shrimp on the other side of the snail, or a smaller snail, or something., well pretty soon, the frog nipped at the snial, which tucked all it's appendages in quick.
I released the fish and the yoyo was hiding under the treasure chest imediately, with the coolie slithering up and down the walls and testing out spots behind sponge filters and stuff. The hatchets seemed a little confused, as only 2 were at the top and it took me a while to find the one standing on the floor a little too close to the frog, but I haven't seen the frog go after a fish yet. It did nip at a shrimp that walked too close and attacked the yellow snail twice more, while my mom was checing on us, so i took the snail out and handed it to her to go put it in a guppy tank. I also put in a small critterkeeper and picked up the snaileasily with my hand and dropped it in with a few pesty little snails. Then i sprinkled a tiny bit of about 4 different kinds of food in and watched until i had to go eat dinner. The frog is still in the critter keeper within the 10g tank, and she hasn't tried to get out, as far as I can tell.
Anyway, she was anoying me, because my selective memmory was telling me they eat fish food and shouldn't bother anything I want to keep, in fact we saw one in the store chewing on green flaky stuff. I'm wondering if I should take her back and just not have a frog right now or trade her for a smaller one that ddoesn't seem to want to spend all it's time on the bottom, or intoduce her to a betta, or let her have her own critter keeper, or declare this tank the one for creatures that caan't be trusted with babies and let her stay there, and maybe add more similar creatures. I'm guessing she would probably not get along well with the semiaggressive brackish critters I haven't been able to put with anything else (like gobies, puffers, and flounders)
Would another frog species go with her, or a newt?
Is this an unusually aggressive frog.
is she the wrong species after all?
Her nose looks piggish, but doesn't look as tubular as I thought they were suposed to be.
I'll have to look at the eyes again. She doesn't want to show me her hands right now, but I saw some webbing, but not all the way to the fingertips.
I have to take her back tomorrow to get all my money back.
I hope she hasn't killed anybody important yet, she was looking a little fat and tired the last timme I checked.
