Graboune, my Giant African Bullfrog

[GRABibus]

Not so easy to cacth nightcrawlers

[johnny888]

It is 7cm large and is about 8 months.
Its head is no so big versus its body and I never eared any croaks...

My feeling is that it is a female...But maybe I am wrong...

Isn't she small for her age?I was just wondering coz my female pixie is only 6 months old and she is around 4 inches already.

[GRABibus]

Isn't she small for her age?I was just wondering coz my female pixie is only 6 months old and she is around 4 inches already.

It is 10cm long and 8cm width.
Do you think it is too small ?

I don't know the "growing rythm" of Pyxies.
I think it depends the frequency of feeding and which preys are given.
I feed it 2 to 3 times per week. It never ate any adult mices until now (Only baby mouses, crickets, locusts, nightcrawlers, roaches).My frog seems very healthy and is very gluttonous.

And in fact, it is not sure it is a female...

[johnny888]

It is 10cm long and 8cm width.
Do you think it is too small ?

I don't know the "growing rythm" of Pyxies.
I think it depends the frequency of feeding and which preys are given.
I feed it 2 to 3 times per week. It never ate any adult mices until now (Only baby mouses, crickets, locusts, nightcrawlers, roaches).My frog seems very healthy and is very gluttonous.

And in fact, it is not sure it is a female...

I have the same feeding regimen with my pixies but i haven't tried giving pinkies or mice yet. Their diet mainly consists of dubias, crickets and newly molted superworms two to three times weekly. I was able to feed both with a quail chick a couple of times and one chick for my female last January.

[GRABibus]

2 new pictures :

From the 30th od March 2012 :




From today :




I feel more and more it's a female (Size versus age, size of the head versus body, no croaks yet).

[GRABibus]

Pictures of Graboune's tank :











Big plastic box, 68cm long at bottom and 47cm large at bottom.

A Reptifogger from ZooMed to maintain air humidity close to 70% to 80%.

If Graboune is a female, this tank will be probably the last one. If it is a male, maybe I will go to an Exo Terra 90x45x45.

[GrifTheGreat]

Nice!!! Did he/she stop trying to aestivate?

[GRABibus]

In this tank I removed a lot of substrate in order to not allow burrowing at the moment.
During last 2 weeks it was waken, but stressed by new environment.
Last 3 days, she spent nights in water bowl, ate a lot, so I was optimistic she was out for a long period.
Yesterday evening, she made a big poop in this bowl, so I changed it and the frog wxent to hide in a new place she never went before...
Result : this morning she was completely burrowed again, at a place where I didn't remove enough substrate...

I put her out of substrate and put her in water bowl.
I will check this evening when I come back to my home if she burrowed again or not.

Except fear or stress, She has no objective reasons to burrow...

[GRABibus]

I went back home, and she burrowed. There is a place where I didn't remove enough substrate...She found it !
According to me, as she is willing to burrow a lot, I don't want to stress her by removing substrate to avoid this burrowing. This could stress her a lot.

I have to adapt myself to my pet and to be patient.

[GrifTheGreat]

I went back home, and she burrowed. There is a place where I didn't remove enough substrate...She found it !
According to me, as she is willing to burrow a lot, I don't want to stress her by removing substrate to avoid this burrowing. This could stress her a lot.

I have to adapt myself to my pet and to be patient.

Well GRAB I guess you'll just have go get into a routine. Unbury her, soak her, and then feed her. shouldn't be too stressful as long as she stays calm. I find that my frogs become less stressed with a full belly

[GRABibus]

Yes, but I become a little bit disappointed to have a Pyxie frog so nice that I never see (Burrowed 90% of the time).
If you add to this my cranwelli which now doesn't want to eat anymore...
I am wondering if I am not going to change of kinds of pets...

With those frogs, too much care, too much spent time and too much spent money for no more pleasure...

[GrifTheGreat]

Yes, but I become a little bit disappointed to have a Pyxie frog so nice that I never see (Burrowed 90% of the time).
If you add to this my cranwelli which now doesn't want to eat anymore...
I am wondering if I am not going to change of kinds of pets...

With those frogs, too much care, too much spent time and too much spent money for no more pleasure...

[Heatheranne]

She definitely has beautiful coloring though. Idk, it seems they get a bit lazy as they age.

[GRABibus]

Hi,

after many months of plastic enclosure, I changed to a decent terrarium.
It could be the final one if Graboune is a female, which is 85% confident level












- Exo Terra 24x18x18
- Substrate : coco fiber melt with blond peat (Without fertilizers)
- Light and heat : basking spot lamp 60W from ZooMed
- Hidding parts, plastic plants
- Water bowl with mineral water (Without nitrates).
- ReptiFogger from ZooMed
- Temperatures : ambient temperature = 75,2F
Day (13hours heating and lightning):
Hotest point = 97,7F (Just under the lamp)
Coolest point = 75,2F to 77F (Under a hidding part)
Night:
73,4F to 75,2F in all the enclosure.

As she is fearful, she hiddes or burrows very often, so she is more at cool temps than hot temps.

But at the moment, it doesn't cut her appetite

Let's cross the fingers that everything goes well for her...

[Sublime]

Wow GRAB, you go all out on a terrarium for your pixie - looks great. Is it hard to feed her in there with all the miscellaneous objects? I mean the only way to deal with a frog that is more scared than others is to just keep on doing your daily routine with the frog and try to minimize as much human contact. As long as she is eating that's good, how's the humidity in the new tank? Those ReptiFoggers are great, bought one and will never go without one for my frog(s).

[GRABibus]

Hey Sublime,

Despite the fact I make the new enclosure by trying to make it more secure for Graboune :3 side faces hidden, hidden parts (Plants, rock, wood bark), not too big enclosure (60x45x45) to reduce stress...she keeps on burrowing, but she is still eating
yes, Reptifogger is great to maintain humidity air at a good level.
But, as you know, wet substrate is the most important thing and I would like to know your opinion about the Moonsoon RS400 from Exo Terra ?

Exo Terra : Monsoon RS400 / Système de chutes d’eau Ã* haute pression

I think it is more appropriate for terrestrial and fossorial frog.

By the way, last picture of my Graboune :

[GRABibus]

Last pictures :









Definitely a female, right ?

[Sublime]

Yeah.

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[GRABibus]

Maybe the best picture until now of my Graboune :

[GRABibus]