Malaysian Painted Frog Photos 27/11/2011

[En333]

My lil bro was thinking about getting a pacman. But then we found quite a few cons (biting, feeding, him wanting the kind I don't want lol) and decided to look for a different one being able to live forever in Kirby's current cage.

I saw your pic on enclosure of month earlier and reminded me about chubbies! (name is easy to remember too haha) and now he really wants one and I do too! Are they pretty easy to care for? Have any tips lol?

O and btw, I love your pictures!

Thnx

[Poly]

My lil bro was thinking about getting a pacman. But then we found quite a few cons (biting, feeding, him wanting the kind I don't want lol) and decided to look for a different one being able to live forever in Kirby's current cage.

I saw your pic on enclosure of month earlier and reminded me about chubbies! (name is easy to remember too haha) and now he really wants one and I do too! Are they pretty easy to care for? Have any tips lol?

O and btw, I love your pictures!

Thnx

Thankyou

Well, both chubbies and pacman's have very basic care needs (I have a pacman as well as chubbies! haha ) How old is your lil bro?

You may want something more active that a chubby or pacman, mine only come out at night. Both the chubbies and pacman stay burried either partially or fully all day. Not the most active of the amphibinas... lol

Luckily, every day I'm up at 12:30am, and that's when I feed all my frogs, because there all out!

So, if you guys want to get a chubby frog, they need:

-1 10 gallon is good for one chubby, but the more space the better!

-A minimum of 6 inches of coco-fibre/eco-earth/-plantation soil (Best three soils available!). The substrate must be deep as these frogs make burrows and holes, so they need lots of soil.

-Standard diet of crickets, nightcrawlers, etc. Dust with calicum once a week. I give my guys each a live pinky every other week, they love them!

-A very shallow water bowl, they are terrible swimmers.

Other than that, just give them lots of places to hde/burrow, and they'll be happy.

But, if I may suggest a more active (and colourful ) frog: Frog Forum - Fire-Bellied Toad Care and Breeding - Bombina orientalis and relatives

I have been thinking about getting a few of these for a while, there easy to care for, require normal "house" temperatures with only a small basking spot.

~Royce

[GrifTheGreat]

I love the chubby frogs as much as Pacmans. Out of the chubbies I think I like the tomato frogs best, but the painted frogs are equally as beautiful.

Bobber! That's funny I was this decided because of shape or color?

[Poly]

I love the chubby frogs as much as Pacmans. Out of the chubbies I think I like the tomato frogs best, but the painted frogs are equally as beautiful.

Bobber! That's funny I was this decided because of shape or color?

Yeah, I originially made the viv for Tomato frogs but when I walked into my local pet store and seen these cute little chubbies (kept in 1/2" coco-fibre, with nice abrasive gravel mixed in...) I had to buy them!

Bobber... well, he kind of looks like a fishing bobber, but he got the name when I put him in 3" of water, and instead of swiming, he just floated around on the surface of the water... like a bobber! I think he was able to float because at that time (I had just bought him, had not had him for a day yet) he was puffed up.