Cuban Tree Frog Febuary 2012

On 2/17/2012 I caught this 4 inch female Cuban Tree Frog right in the middle of the day. It was sitting on a metal fence and I scooped it into a jar. I'm experimenting with it to see what it will eat. I know it specilizes in killing Florida's native Tree Frogs, but will it eat anything else?

Update:
I have witnessed it eagerly eat 2 large cockroaches and 10 or so live carpenter ants and several Cuban Anole lizards. A friend is going to give me a couple small Cuban Tree frogs and we are going to see if this large one will eat its own species. I'm not going to feed it a native tree frog, we already know from disected frogs that native tree frogs were found in their stomachs.

Update:
I took this Cuban Tree Frog to a Florida Native Plant Societ meeting. When the president of the club held up the container it was in everyone went "BOOOOOO! Cuban Tree Frog BOOOOOO!" Several people had never seen one up close, but everyone know what it was by name.

Update
I took this Frog to the Central Florida Herpetological meeting and no one there had seen one so big. But they did comfirm it was a Cuban Tree Frog.

Update:
I've had this big female Cuban Tree Frog for seven months now. In that time I've terminated 9 male Cuban Tree Frogs by freezing them. I've got this female trained to eat out of my hand. She has eaten live mice, blocks of scrambled eggs, a small dead bird, sliced turkey and a small live Green House Frog.

Will they eat their own species?
 She would not eat her own species that were living in the cage with her. I thought that since she eats only what I hand to her that I should hand feed her a small Cuban Tree Frog. But when I tried this, rather than aggresively attack she turned away and made a sour face. I tried again and she retreated to hide under water.

Indo Pacific Gecko Feb 2012

The other night I caught this Indo Pacific Gecko off the foundation of my house. I caught it by just grabbing it with my hand. It is now living in a fish tank in my house, I'll be showing it around to some environmental groups, then feeding it to my pet snapping turtle.

17 less Cuban Anoles from UCF

     This kind of blurry action picture is two of my baby Box Turltes attacking a baby Cuban Anole. Of the 17 Cuban Anoles (Anolis sagrei) I caught on Friday 10/14/11, two were babies and fed to my four Box Turtles. The other 15 will be fed to my Florida Snapping Turtle. Yes this is how I spend my Friday night, hunting exotic invasive species.

My new Cuban Anole eating machine

           This Florida Snapping Turtle spent all day Tuesday with me. It came to work with me, went to a UCF Eco-Advocates meeting with me, then in the evening a Florida Native Plants meeting. It behaved so sweetly the whole day. It spent hours with its head in my arm sleeping through the meetings.
     I tell people, "Don't be decieved, when this thing eats its not pretty." Tonight (Wednesday) I fed it six Cuban Anoles and one dead Finch from the animal hospital I volunteer at.
    Note in this picture this Florida Snapping Turtle is very swollen. I cured this water retention, a skin infection it had and a bad smell too. It is doing much better now.

Three Anolis Sagrei and a Feral Cat

     There are so many Cuban Anoles here in Orlando you can catch them by hand. Just on my walk from my car into work this morning I caught three. All three will be fed to some rehabbing animal at the Wildlife Hospital.

     I released ten Doves and one Sparrow for the hospital yesterday. I went inside my house for one minute, came back out to make sure they had flown away and a feral cat had showed up out of nowhere. I was unable to catch the cat, but I did scare the whiskers off of it.

     (Update) I after finding a pile of Dove feathers on my front porch I declared war on the feral cats in my area. I finally did catch this Dove killer with a "Have-a-heart" trap baited with cat nip flavored food. Just FYI I I do have a permitt from the goverment to catch domestic feral cats.  I think the goverment should put a reward out for every cat you can bring in, dead or alive.