Lemon

Lemon is going to be a little bit difficult to write about knowing that i had a difficult time to find out about her spices. I got her when my ex-boyfriend worked in a pet store and a man walked in with her and two other fire belly toads saying that he was moving and couldn't take care of them. It was then when my ex knew exactly to call me first and of course i took them in. When i first saw Lemon i had no idea what she was, a toad or a frog. She was a little bit larger then my toads with skin waxy to the touch and this beautiful color design. She was white on her stomach and black with wiggling lemon yellow strips across her back. Golden eyes with strange giant circular pupils that made it difficult to even see the golden ring, almost too creepy to look at.



After a couple a months of having her and having to rearrange many tank setups in which she was not happy with and trying to study about her in every attempt failed, i finally gave up. I decided to then pack my bags and take a trip to the Columbus zoo and meet up with Greg Whitman, the frog specialist of the zoo. I brought Lemon along so he can take a closer look at her. When he saw Lemon he was stunned. This was his first challenge. Flipping through all his books and charts while Lemon just happily walked on his desk eating a appetizer of of crickets and beetles. It started from a few hours to a few days before he finally found a solution. Greg spoke with a friend of his in the Cuban area and its believed that she a spices foreign to North America and if that's so then it would be illegal for me to keep her. Greg offered to take her in captivity in the zoo or i would have to buy a legal licence to keep her. I wanted to leave her at the zoo because i thought it would the best for her but i just didn't want to leave her in a place where snotty nose children stick their ugly faces up to the glass day after day. I brought her back home but until then i found out it was a $800 fine for the licence. Love is no amount to money so of course i bit the bullet and bought the licence.



Figuring if she was a spices from the Cuban area then i should set up a tropical tank, a rain forest appeal. I assume i did something right because she ended up being very happy.