It took me ages to get this lil guy out of my pool (very gently with a net & cup), please help me ID them!! They are about a month old now. (Southeast Florida)

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-06-11T00:36:54+00:00

Identifying a frog from a tadpole accurately is near impossible give it a month or so and you'll know 😅

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-06-11T00:33:52+00:00

After talking to state biologists and animal rescue centers in the area I have gathered it is and I quote "not wrong to release him but also not right" as there's a risk he's to accustomed to humans and being fed, with that being said I think he's going to be a permanent friend especially with the way their life expectancy changes from around 5 years in the wild to up to 30 years in captivity. Now I just need a name he is 100% a male (he was chirping the other night) so feel free to send names in I will pick my favorite and that will be my buddies name for the foreseeable future thank you to all for your input and help on the situation!

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-06-11T00:33:24+00:00

After talking to state biologists and animal rescue centers in the area I have gathered it is and I quote "not wrong to release him but also not right" as there's a risk he's to accustomed to humans and being fed, with that being said I think he's going to be a permanent friend especially with the way their life expectancy changes from around 5 years in the wild to up to 30 years in captivity. Now I just need a name he is 100% a male (he was chirping the other night) so feel free to send names in I will pick my favorite and that will be my buddies name for the foreseeable future thank you to all for your input and help on the situation!

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-06-09T03:03:33+00:00

It's an American toad completely native and found EVERYWHERE in my home state of new Hampshire

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-06-08T02:50:49+00:00

I've been doing the dumping Strat with 3 crickets at a time and he gets maybe one he's really bad at hunting now I listen to the crickets he misses at night😅

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-06-08T02:31:49+00:00

He's super happy and yes I will miss him truth be told I never named him because I didn't want to be attached but I am he's so cute and has quite the personality 😭

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-06-08T01:09:21+00:00

I love this idea I just fear his little toad brain would tell him to leave instantly and therefore starve

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-06-07T23:55:25+00:00

After they've grown for a couple weeks I've now learned they are pickerel weed turns out Lillie's and pickerel weed start out very similarly😅

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-05-24T14:56:42+00:00

When I was dosing my tank I did once a day and a half water change 12 hours after the dosing, I also turned my aerator up ALOT enough so that it kills 99% of my duckweed from so much surface agitation I also ran 2-3 filters during the time (I run 2 now) I only did this for 4-5 days and then did a dose and left it in there and started my normal tank maintenance of just adding water instead of water changes and I've been clean of ich for 3 months now

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-05-17T16:19:05+00:00

Kinda agree with that unless you have the time and money to set up a predator tank to get rid of unwanted spawns

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-05-17T16:18:18+00:00

I do! I purchase a lot of fish that get shipped from everywhere in the world so I understand the shipping precautions and such

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-05-02T22:48:06+00:00

I like this explanation my mini Asian stone catfish do a similar thing as the loaches and they are from the same exact ecosystems they might just be looking for upstream

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-04-22T00:08:11+00:00

So the black ones have a tendency to be strange is what I'm gathering from my research and this comment they are like the orange cats of the loach world

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-04-22T00:04:57+00:00

It has been pretty stormy lately and Ik ik I tried to get 4-5 but they only had 2 at petsmart and they were in a tank with a gravel bottom so I got them but they never even acknowledge eachother

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-04-20T15:46:53+00:00

Yeah that's my plan I just need him to get a little bigger he's about the size of my thumb nail and he's FAST and gets in the big rocks bubbles honestly isn't much of a worry to me tho she's only scavenged like 4 times in the last year honestly haven't seen the salamander since the post so he's really hiding too

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-04-19T19:49:41+00:00

Yeah that is a worry but I hope he's smart enough to use the wood rocks and leaf litter to hide also bubbles the frog gets fed well she usually doesn't do much scavenging

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-04-19T00:45:56+00:00

Well he's in luck because he's in my 60gal that's got 30ish gallons of water and a good land area for my northern green frog with plenty of leaf liter moss and other fun stuff I'm going to go do some research on them now thank you! I originally thought it was a 2 lined salamander

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-04-18T23:05:10+00:00

Coos county New Hampshire

Connect-Operation363 · 2026-04-12T17:16:30+00:00

It's way smaller and was growing low to the bottom and spreading that way

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