Hi guys. I took a picture on my phone but I can't find a cord to hook up to my usb. So I'll take some on my camera later.
I picked up a female tomato frog at a pet store in a nearby city and despite her looking stressed my room mate and I bought her. She was in a small 5 gallon aquarium that was too warm for her species and was full of moss and she was on the bottom. That and a water dish with her. Her eyes looked bulged out and stressed and her feet seemed to have a discoloration. I fed her last night soon after we got home (she's bigger than Tang) so she may be older as well. She ate about 7 small crickets. I'll get a picture soon, she's quite a hopper and seems to have a lot of personality :-)
Congrats on you new frog. Hope you have her away from Hopper and in quarantine; specially since frog does not look well. Good luck !
Remember to take care of the enclosure and it will take care of your frog !
Yeah I have her in a separate 20 gallon and I'm going to see how she does. Thought I took a picture on my camera but I must not have. I'll get one up on the Eve. Her eyes look more relaxed now then they did.
Here are two pictures I took today. unfortunately these pet stores feed them solely crickets as far as I know, so the poor thing has probably never had anything else and wasn't sure what to make of the worms I offered.
Great looking frog.
At first I thought that worm was its leg until I enlarged the picture.
One of the things I love about tomato frogs is the toes on their front feet, they are so long and creepy looking.
Beautiful Tomato, I love them and do keep a coupe. Good luck with him
Lol yeah that's true Jack. One of the first things I was worried about with her was the white in her fore paws which initially seemed to have a faint blue discoloration and a vain look which seems to have gone since I got her. Her eyes look a bit bulged but I've seen some in the wild on google images that look the same way. I have Tang and Fluffy in a 24" long and eventually want to get the 3 of them in 36". I wanted for a while to get a red tomato frog but I just felt I needed to rescue her.
Don't know if you guys need a better picture to tell if there is any old injury of any kind on her leg based on the discoloration. Gary: I find they have so much personality. My females both have a look when they see movement that is cute. Their eyes shift to where the movement is and in some cases they spin around in a 360 degree and go right into hunt mode. They often lean their bodies in by extending out a front leg right stealthy like and then snip out their tongue. I love them :-) If I had the space and the cash I would love to get bull frogs but that will probably never happen. Still, I'll get fire bellies next year and maybe a super red pacman from Yusuke.
She's not quite that colorful. My camera seems to really deepen colors.
Frustrated by hope one of the pet shops in my area is very thoughtless of how they keep their frogs. I have spoken to them politely in this but nothing has changed. The frogs, including their new tomato frog, are under a bright white light that is hot seemingly. The tomato frog in there now looks pretty dry and miserable. With dried looking moss only partly covering her in a small tank.
I finally have a clear video of her. But wait to you see her stalking. Its very much like the Bull Frog documentary that National Geographic did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jckpv23OZlo
That's awesome Robbie! I love watching my tomatoes stalk, but they are so tiny yet... Thanks for sharing. =) It's cool to see what they'll be like when mine are older.
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