they have arrived

[Tommo]

i just arrived back from QLD and toads have just started to arrive in darwin :cry:

so far i have only seen afew large(dead) toads on roads, but it wont be long until the others start to breed. i know this was inevitable but i just thought i would share

the toads have been supposibly arriving in darwin the next wet season for the last 5 years, but it has finally happened

 

[westhamsc]

bummer mate. do your self a fav. and buy your self the best driver you can buy. to hit those suckers with it.

 

[Tommo]

way ahead of ya, ive been in QLD for a week so im well prepared

 

[westhamsc]

so send them back to those QLDers who intoduced them to this fine country

 

[AGAMIDAE]

a friend went to Kakado, he came back with photos of toads inside the National Park....they cat be stopped

 

[indicus]

"Sad, but besides playing golf with'em or counting how many you can take out in a row with the car, where almost helpless. Numbers of herps and other wildlife will drop dramatically in the short term 'some' may be extremely slow to recover (years?) but in time will recover to some extent. In Qld, reptiles live with toads,....... its a matter of time".

 

[Hickson]

That's a bugger. How plentiful are they at Fogg Dam? And have they had any impact there on the Water Pythons?



Hix

 

[Springherp]

Hix,
I was up at Darwin last week. Fortunately the toads haven't arrived at Fogg Dam yet but are only about 20km away on the Arnhem highway. :cry:
Its a sad time for top-end reptiles...
cheers.

 

[Hickson]

If the pythons try to feed on the toads, and then the numbers of pythons plummet, then the population of dusky rats will explode, which will be severely detrimental for the entire ecosystem........



Hix

 

[Magpie]

I think they are worried that the rats will then be a food source for the toads, causing them to increase dramatically too.

 

[Hickson]

I think they are worried that the rats will then be a food source for the toads, causing them to increase dramatically too.

Hadn't thought of that.......always imagined them to be the size of a Brown Rat, but I know now they're not that big.

Double Bugger.



Hix

 

[africancichlidau]

Anyone heard anything about the virus the CSIRO was working with to combat these horrors? Last I heard they had a successful virus and were working on modifying it so it did not affect our native toads/frogs.

 

[Hickson]

Have a look at this Afro

http://www.csiro.au/promos/ozadvances/Series15Cane.htm

and

http://www.csiro.au/index.asp?type=mediaRelease&id=VenezuelanVirusesRuledOutFor



Hix

 

[ether]

bummer mate. do your self a fav. and buy your self the best driver you can buy. to hit those suckers with it.

Betta be a really big club to keep them out, lol.

I watched a show on them, is it true that people smoke them???

 

[angelrose]

we used to rub ciggies on there backs to get high when i was young....

Angel

 

[indicus]

" You would fit in with the 'hippies' up in Kuranda (NQ).......Havent heard of that one for years, i think there trying to discourage that type of behaviour now."

 

[Retic]

I don't know why it is taking so long to come up with a virus to kill these things. There aren't any native toads so I would have thought it would be fairly easy to modify it not to affect frogs, to be honest even if it did affect a couple of frogs it would have to be a price worth paying (just donning my asbestos coat).

 

[angelrose]

lol oh i dont do that sort of thing any more indicus there are much more pleasant drugs available on the black market now lol

Angel