Frogs

We have a lot of frogs around our house this summer. We live near a brook but we wanted a frog pond closer to the house. We used our old turtle sandbox because we don't reallty use it anymore. We let the rain and leaves gather and waited to see if frogs would use it for a pond. Last summer they did not. This summer lots of frogs have found our pond.


This is the biggest frog that lives in the turtle sandbox pond. Since this was taken now about 5 smaller frogs live in the pond.
















Frog eggs are usually in clumps. We didn't find any frog eggs in our pond so far. We got this from google images.

















Toad eggs are different, they are usually in threads. We had toad eggs last year which we foun at the lake near our house. The picture is not very big though so we chose this one from google images.
















Frogs and toads both love to eat bugs. Toads like worms and caterpillars. For that reason it's easier to keep frogs in an outdoor pond than in a tank in our home. If you want to catch bugs for your frogs you can keep them in your house. It's fun to raise tadpoles and we did again this year but we let them go when they turned into frogs.

For tadpoles we made a land area and a water area in a 30 gallon aquarium. It is easy to do this by tilting the tank a bit. put a book under one end to make the water deeper on one end. It's very important for frog or toad tadpoles to be able to get out of the water when they get their legs. If they can't get to some land they will die!

















baby tree frog on the couch.















baby tree frog in Colin's hand.