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lilly12
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Location: Brisbane
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Hi, I was wondering if anyone could please help me identify this frog. In the last week we have over 50 of the little things in our small pond. I would love to know what species they are!
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nadiam
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Location: central queensland
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:25 pm |
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| extremely cute!
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nadiam
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Location: central queensland
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:32 pm |
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I am being extremely flippant. The mod squad will tell the truth
Seriously cute though!
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nadiam
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Evan
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Joined: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Newcastle, NSW
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:13 pm |
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The Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog (Litoria fallax). The nose isn't sharp enough for Litoria olongburensis.
Evan
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nadiam
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Location: central queensland
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:36 pm |
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thanks Evan! I didn't want to call them fallax if they weren't. I wasn't sure how significant the facial stripes and markings are at that stage.
Now I have my answer.
Incidentally, would the olongburensis cluster like that? I mean in those numbers?
Remembering we do not have them in my region and those photos look like the fallaxes here, just curious.
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Leah
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Joined: 03 Feb 2010
Location: Townsville, Queensland
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:13 am |
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| nadiam wrote: | | extremely cute! |
My immediate diagnosis: Rana extremelycuteus.
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lilly12
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Joined: 10 Feb 2010
Location: Brisbane
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:57 am |
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| thank you so much for the help! i love my little frogs.... the gathering of them is just the most amazing thing, i am so grateful to have them all in my little pond!
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lilly12
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Joined: 10 Feb 2010
Location: Brisbane
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:16 am |
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I have another question if someone could help.... what does the spawn of the Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog (Litoria fallax) look like...and what sort of care should I take to ensure the spawn hatches in my pond. Thank you 
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Leah
frog
Joined: 03 Feb 2010
Location: Townsville, Queensland
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:48 am |
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| lilly12 wrote: | | the gathering of them is just the most amazing thing, i am so grateful to have them all in my little pond! |
Ahem! I take it you're aware of Queensland law?
| Ann wrote: | There are two sets of laws for Queensland.
One set for if you have a license:
You can't take from the wild at all, must be purchased from captive breed stock.
If you don't have a license:
You may take and keep up to eight adult frogs of up to four species but no more than two frogs of any one species "for personal enjoyment". |
Kidding. I'm sure your collected ones are free to go at any time?
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lilly12
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Location: Brisbane
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:59 am |
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Leah Wrote:
Kidding. I'm sure your collected ones are free to go at any time?
They have just appeared naturally and they are 100 % free to come and go as they please!
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Leah
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Joined: 03 Feb 2010
Location: Townsville, Queensland
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:32 am |
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Ah, I get it. When you wrote "the gathering of them" you were referring to them gathering in and around your pond. I read it as you went around picking them all up.
This is my kind of pet-keeping. Aren't we blessed to live in Australia?
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nadiam
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Joined: 24 Sep 2008
Location: central queensland
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| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 4:14 pm |
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We have a goanna that does that too... sort of walks on water over the pond! Then hides up a pipe on the ground.
And after nearly 400mm of rain we have frogs breeding in our makeshift water lily ponds (plus the big dam).
So big some of them and seeing them with all 4 legs and a tail kind of suspended animation in the water, ones with tails up trees and then the tiny ones.
What a difference removing the toads has made! I know.. only temporary reprieve, I can still imagine a miracle occurring, with a toad free australia
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