Backyard critters

[Spilota]

Here is a selection of pix of different creatures that have visited our back yard. Sorry about the gecko pix, the little buggers are hard to take photos of.:noidea:

Red-belly Black snake (highly venomous) http://myreptileplanet.com/imagehosting/thum_33147c10a666f222.jpg (http://myreptileplanet.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=1046)

A Green Treefrog
http://myreptileplanet.com/imagehosting/thum_33147c10aa4677f9.jpg (http://myreptileplanet.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=1047)

Geckos
http://myreptileplanet.com/imagehosting/thum_33147c10adacce20.jpg (http://myreptileplanet.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=1048)http://myreptileplanet.com/imagehosting/thum_33147c10aefca18c.jpg (http://myreptileplanet.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=1049)http://myreptileplanet.com/imagehosting/thum_33147c10b06ec084.jpg (http://myreptileplanet.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=1050)

Baby Bluetoungue
http://myreptileplanet.com/imagehosting/thum_33147c10b8072007.jpg (http://myreptileplanet.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=1051)

Baby Carpet Python
http://myreptileplanet.com/imagehosting/thum_33147c10bbda2ec4.jpg (http://myreptileplanet.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=1052)

My back yard
http://myreptileplanet.com/imagehosting/thum_33147c10c07a79e4.jpg (http://myreptileplanet.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=1053)

[The Snake Guru]

LOL....your "Backyard Critters" are the US's petshop mainstays! LOL
White Treefrogs and BTs all at a stones throw away...lucky SOB! LOL

Nice shots man.
~B~

[Spilota]

Thanks. I still want that perfect Gecko snap, had a window full of them but before I could line the camera up, they scattered.:mad:

[danthony428]

badass, you're lucky man, i wish i had all that stuff in my backyard, minus the black snake maybe

[Spilota]

I'm happy to see the little black snakes now and then because they have been dying out from all the Cane Toads.:PDT_minzdr:They eat the Toads and dye from they're poison.:(

But yeah, I love the wildlife so close to me. Not everyone living here in Brisbane is lucky enough to be this close to nature and the city.:D

[The Snake Guru]

I'm happy to see the little black snakes now and then because they have been dying out from all the Cane Toads.They eat the Toads and dye from they're poison.

I've heard you guys have had a real problem with that over the years. For anyone who didn't know the Cane Toad was an introduced species to Australia, and now from lack of natural predators has been over running areas down there, as mentioned they are highly toxic to anything that eats them, usually resulting in death, many species are getting hit by those pests, it is a very sad deal.

By chance do you know if they have found a way to combat this infestation yet? Just figured you being down there you may heard something before us.


~B~

[ReptileMan27]

WOW lucky you :)

[mcem]

Nice man!! I'll trade backyards with you anytime!!!! Thanks for trying for some gecko shots. Do you by chance know what genus that gecko belongs to?

[Aurora]

Wow thats amazing... all your posts make me so jealous!

[Spilota]

I've heard you guys have had a real problem with that over the years. For anyone who didn't know the Cane Toad was an introduced species to Australia, and now from lack of natural predators has been over running areas down there, as mentioned they are highly toxic to anything that eats them, usually resulting in death, many species are getting hit by those pests, it is a very sad deal.

By chance do you know if they have found a way to combat this infestation yet? Just figured you being down there you may heard something before us.


~B~
No, they are as much of a pest that they can ever be. There are some ideas but nothing ideal for the situation. The Kneel-back snake however, has developed an immunity to the toads poison and feeds on the small ones and I heard something about the Eastern Brown developing a venom that is affective against them, so perhaps nature will develop a solution quicker than we will.:croc:

Thanks for the comments. I don't mean to make people jealous, but rather share with everyone what amazing creatures we have here.:PDT_bird:I don't know a lot about the Geckos, except that some of them are introduced from Indonesia. I heard someone refer to them as the "Pink Gecko", but sometimes I see some with spiky tails and I have been told that they are the native Australian ones.

[WHISTLE69]

COOL

[Spilota]

The dogs tried to bail up another Red-belly Black in our back yard, but the little bloke escaped into the rocks in the retaining wall.:peep:

[Spilota]

Picked up the two Blueys today as I mentioned earlier. I'll set them up during the week and send some pix when I can.:photo:

[carpondro17]

COOL what did ya keep?

[Spilota]

Do you mean what I had before the Blueys?

I have two Coastal Carpet Pythons, Serge the serpent and Ruby the reptile.:thumb: