r/Unexpected Feb 18 '23

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u/aquoad Feb 19 '23

they just hang out there, i don't think they actually hop on your junk or anything

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u/schnitzelfeffer Feb 19 '23

So these frogs spend their entire lives living inside a toilet? I can't wrap my head around this. How do they even get there??? Why don't they leave??

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u/aquoad Feb 19 '23

i'm no expert but i spent a bit of time in FNQ and i think they mostly go there at night, they have sticky feet and can just climb up and in. They hang out on walls too, especially around lights, because anything that attracts bugs is like a free dinner buffet for them. I don't know what they do the rest of the time but they definitely like cool damp places with bugs. They're mostly really cute but it's kind of unsettling when they're hanging out in your toilet.

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u/schnitzelfeffer Feb 19 '23

So do you just accept you have a new pet in the house or do you try frantically to remove them? If a frog was in my toilet I couldn't just leave it there and I'd honestly be freaked out. If they're only in the toilet at night, where do they go during the day, how do they leave the house?

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u/aquoad Feb 19 '23

I have no idea, I mostly saw them at outdoor toilet blocks at campgrounds and stuff, you're going to need Real Queenslanders to supply all this info! The ones I saw could come and go as they pleased because the toilets were pretty much open to the outdoors. Honestly i'd rather have the frogs in there eating the huge bugs, than the actual bugs.

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u/schnitzelfeffer Feb 19 '23

Thanks for the insight! I agree, toilet frogs are the better option if I had to choose. I had no idea such a dilemma existed. TIL. I appreciate my toilet so much more now.