OT Frogs

So I'm watering the plants, and I see these two guys.
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...l062008015.jpg
It has not been uncommon for me to find one frog sitting in the spout
of one of the self-watering pots I have around the house. In fact,
the frogs seem to have become rather used to me, and not as afraid of
me as they have been. They would often jump out of the pot when I
came near with a watering can, then they waited to jump out until the
pot got full, now they don't even bother to jump out at all. (Well,
if I pour water on them directly they'll jump, but you really have to
fuss with them these days.) But this is the first time I have seen
two in the same spout. I took this after filling the pot with water.
The fill up didn't seem to bother them at all, although the flash from
the camera made the green one go away and hide for a moment, but then
he came back out. To bring this sort of back around to ponds, it
wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that these guys spent at least
part of their lives (perhaps as tadpoles) in the pond.

Galen Hekhuis

Well, of course, you did intend those pots to be
froggy condos, didn't you?

k :-)

"Galen Hekhuis" <> wrote
| So I'm watering the plants, and I see these two guys.
| http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...l062008015.jpg

I just love finding frogs in unexpected places. I often see them on the rim
of my swimming pool. They lay eggs in it and I move them to a smaller pool
(until I get a pond made). I don't think they'd leave eggs in my pool if I
used chlorine habitually, and I don't, I use a Floatron ionizer instead, and
an occasional overnight shock treatment (and I'm always afraid frogs will
suffer when I do those).

Cool pic. Are they variants of a theme or different species?

Jim

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 19:53:25 EDT, Phyllis and Jim
<> wrote:

>Cool pic. Are they variants of a theme or different species?

I'm pretty sure they are just a color variation of the same species.
They look almost identical except for color. I used to feel sorry for
the one that was living inside because I didn't think there would be
enough to eat. I guess there is though, because it's been here for
months the frog is still fat and happy and sitting in my inside pot.
Either that or it has found a way to go outside at night (I always
open the windows and turn off the A/C at night) and feed and then
return to the house in the morning.

Galen Hekhuis

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 00:41:04 EDT, Galen Hekhuis <>
wrote:

>So I'm watering the plants, and I see these two guys.
>http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...l062008015.jpg
>Galen Hekhuis

Those are the cutest pot sitters I've ever seen. The pot is inside the
house? Do you think mosquitoes might be attracted to the water and that's
what they're living on?
~ jan (on hold with the driver's license place now for 19 minutes.)
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Zone 7a, SE Washington State
Ponds: www.jjspond.us

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 15:35:28 EDT, ~ jan <> wrote:

>On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 00:41:04 EDT, Galen Hekhuis <>
>wrote:
>
>>So I'm watering the plants, and I see these two guys.
>>http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...l062008015.jpg
>>Galen Hekhuis
>
>Those are the cutest pot sitters I've ever seen. The pot is inside the
>house? Do you think mosquitoes might be attracted to the water and that's
>what they're living on?

The two in the picture are in a pot on my screened in front porch.
It's mostly bug-free out there but I imagine there are enough to keep
the frogs in business. I've got about 10 pots hanging out there and
usually there is a frog in about half of the pots whenever I water,
but like I say, this is the first time I've seen two in a pot. I've
got about 20 of those kinds of pots inside, but only one frog that
I've seen. The frog has been there for months, I started seeing it in
late February and it is still around. I use crushed up mosquito dunks
in the pots, but I've never had any mosquitoes in them. Doesn't seem
to bother the frogs at all.

Galen Hekhuis