That a lot of eggs

[Wailua Boy]

What crops do you grow? Hendre

 

[Hendre]

All year strawberries thats new to me but very cool. Me and by dad built a small system of 80L of water and i did 2 runs of rocket and parsley before the pumps got disconnected over the holidays.

I am now designing a 450L system with some Raft beds, NFT beds and media beds for a school project. I am going to experiment in that system

 

[Wailua Boy]

I would start off with lettuce and as your growbeds mature try other crops.

I have 4 year old strawberry plants that bloom thru out year, granted I live in a area where the weather is fairly constant and doesn't freeze.

Hendre

 

[Hendre]

Growbeds mature? I am gonna grow 3 leafy green varieties for my testing

 

[Wailua Boy]

It just seems over time the nutrients/trace elements built up in the grow bed. Mine didn't really start producing for a year or so Hendre

 

[Frank Castle]

Even at larval stage? Thats pretty crazy

It's funny you asked that question before I got to....

These guys are Bufo marinus, the
Cane Toad. They're actually some toxicity concerns around dogs etc.

They are toxic to a lot of things...strangely Crocodylus porosus is completely unaffected by it, yet at the same time Crocodylus johnstoni becomes severely ill and usually dies afterwards. I am curious how they affect other Crocodilians and with some research my theory about saltwater neutralizing bufotoxins could be somewhat correct. I don't know of any amphibians capable of surviving in saltwater, despite the original name, "Marine Toad"........so in that case, why would their toxins???? How is C. niloticus or any of the other 4-5 African Crocs affected by it, Hendre ? or even Varanus niloticus also???

Those things are causing issues in Australia unfortunately the dominated the environment and can only be removed by man as predator numbers have dropped by almost 90% in areas where they live.

Luckily monitors have been trained with relative success to avoid them by giving them small, less poisonous toads

I knew they toad-trained Quolls, but never heard of Monitor lizards doing it....must be smarter than I thought.

 

[Betta132]

Amphibians die in saltwater because it dehydrates them. I'm not sure you can kill a toxin by dehydrating it. I imagine saltwater would eventually break the toxins down, but I'm not sure how long it would take.

 

[Frank Castle]

Amphibians die in saltwater because it dehydrates them. I'm not sure you can kill a toxin by dehydrating it. I imagine saltwater would eventually break the toxins down, but I'm not sure how long it would take.

IDK I'm thinking good ol' salt might be even more of a super-mineral than we thought. Soooooo many uses.......

 

[Hendre]

I haven't a clue about resistances by crocidilians, but saltwater does have something to do with nullifying some poisons.the juvinile lizards were given small toads and found the poison tastes horrible, but the dosage isn't enough to kill them. Out of the lizards released 65% survived the first 2 years.

Frank do you study/ work in biology?

 

[Wailua Boy]

I've heard the Cane Toads tadpoles tolerating 27.5% salinity