Easiest way I know to attract a green tree frog or two;

Take your loo pedestal out of your house, and move it near the pond still
hooked up. I garantuee at least a couple of the green barstards (within a
week or so) will be clogging up the flush like nobody's business. It has to
be a loo that people use regularly, as they like scaring people as well....

Toiletto Frogoli, our Italian bum-patting resident(Litoria Caerulea) will
not budge out of our loo. He has a long list of bums he has patted(pretty
sure I have seen a tally on the side of the loo), and subsequent screams of
surprise\shock\horror. Every day, he seems to be able wedge himself that
little bit further up the pipe from the reservoir, and block the flush (his
ultimate goal, we think). Enticements of much cleaner and more convenient
(for everyone) water just dont interest him. Threats with the Toilet brush
make him chitter like he's possessed, and he usually takes a flying leap out
of the bowl, and hides behind the rubbish bin. However, and hour later, he
will be back in residence, awaiting the next confrontation.
Every so often Toiletto goes on holidays, and gets his mama in to keep the
loo occupied. She's larger. fatter, and more intimidating than Toiletto, but
doesnt pat backsides. However, she is large enough to wedge her legs against
both sides of the bowl, and glare at you as you vainly try to flush her
away...

A good indicator that wet weather is imminent is when the toilet starts
croaking....Very good acoustics!

We lost a pressure pump motor at our shearing shed dam last year; a loud
bang, and molten sparks flying out the back end when the switch was turned
on. Dissassembly found 28 Desert Tree Frogs (Litoria Rubella) had crawled
through the air vent and into the winding for somewhere quiet to sleep away
the day. We have also lost a computer power supply the same way, due to one
of these enterprising little cherubs crawling through the air vent. We have
also lost 3 main circuit boards on our large split system aircon to green
tree frogs before I finally found all the holes. Mitsubishi wouldnt believe
us about short circuits on the third board ($430!).

I thought I lived in a bloody desert.....

They certainly make life interesting. That said; I wouldnt get rid of them
for the world.

Cheers,

Rod..... Out Back.



"Pat Robinson" wrote in message
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Hi there,

We're building a frog pond on our rural property. It'll be in semi shade
and about 2.5M x 1.5M. Just using a poly liner with rocks around the edge
etc.

Any hints on attracting the little critters once its finished ?



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Pat Robinson
Macleay River Valley
Australia

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