frogs at home: Frogbert

^^this is Frogbert, a Pacific Chorus Frog (Pseudacris regilla)

that arrived as a tiny tadpole hiding in an order of pond plants.

 ^^about 3.5 to 4 cm snout to tail tip.
Adult size of this species varies between 2 to 5 cm.

 

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photo credit: Danielle

frogs at home: Frogbert by Danielle is licensed under a 

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Never wild release plants or animals from your aquarium. 

If you remove it from its habitat, it is effectively dead.

The plant or animal could now carry aquarium pathogens, and it may also be a 

genetically different population from the one you release it into. The harsh experience of

aquarists is that you keep it or euthanize it.

While hard line, this is a rule responsible aquarists hold to. 

There have been too many ecosystems disrupted by human interference, even well meaning human interference, that there has been an ethic developed that says we ruin what we touch, and that whether we catch it to eat it or keep it, it doesn't go back.

See this University of Victoria page for one devastating example.