Legend of the Corsair

Well, we (crabbyolbastard and I) went to Petsmart after hanging out reading at Starbucks for a while... we were only supposed to get some fish food at first. Then we saw George. If you've been reading COB then you know that we have been watching the two seasons of Dead Like Me after getting exposed to it on Sci-Fi channel. If you've seen at least the first one, you have been introduced to the "toad" that originally kept Pandora's box. (A frog that should never have been allowed to hold it was the one who opened it.) Later, in the second season, the "toad" is given to George's sister, and she named it J.F. - Just Frog. However, we named it George after the main character named Georgia Lass.

Here is a good site with general information about the type of frog that we got - a Pacman Frog. Though ours is an albino, like the one in the above mentioned show.


This is what zi looked like two weeks ago... see COB's site later for actual pics of George.


This is what a adult sized George may look like, in about a year from now.


And this is another awesome picture taken of an Albino Pacman Frog.

It took about a half hour or so to set up zi's tank, wet mulch covered by damp moss, with a heater pad stuck to the bottom of the tank and a thermometer and hydrometer on the inside. Zi's got a curved bit of hollowed out former log for a hiding place and a good sized plasrock drinking flat (very shallow but large enough for a wade through). We'll feed him once a day (in the AM like the store has been) an assortment of big crickets, meal worms and wax worms as well as keep it a nice wet and warm environment. Yes, we actually had to set up a little environment (separate and not visible to George) for the crickets, although the meal worms can go in the fridge and the wax worms are all set in their plastic container.

OH! COB is thinking of setting up the webcam again, this time for George... What say you?

Hmmmn, methinks I'll be asking for my first icon to be made over at icondoit!

P.S. For those of you who aren't used to the use of zi, it is a non-gendered reference to George (like him, her, and it) because zi could be either or - or able to change from one to the other for all we know - and I wanted to. Heh.