Where to buy a frog?

[sobo]

I have a Albino pacman frog and 2 firebelly toads.

I was doing research and looking at videos and I think a tomato frog would be a wonderful next frog to take care of.
Sadly, my local pet stores dont carry these, so does anyone know a reliable website to buy one from?

I got my baby albino frog from reptilecity.com and I will never buy from there again. They sent him in a crappy box with priority mail ( should of been next day).
And it took him 5 days to get here, I was VERY lucky he was still alive.
Anyways, If anyone knows a good website please let me know. Thanks!

[sobo]

Okay, I bought a baby tomato frog. He will be here on Friday.

I have done a ton of reaserch and even with that, I feel hearing answers from people that own the animal I need information about is more reliable than what I read in books or on the internet. And you are all so nice!

So I would like to tell you what I have planned for him, and hope its right.
Please correct me if something is way off.

Heres his tank set-up:

I heard they love to burrow so I put about 4 inches of coconut fiber.
A little water bowl for now because hes a baby. ( i always use spring water)
I put a half log in there so he has a place to hide.
Hes in a 10gallon tank.

Is there anything else that I should add to make it more fun for them?

I dont have it yet but he wont be here until Friday.
But I will be getting a heating pad for the side of the tank to keep his temp. at 75-85
I also read the himidity should be 70-80. Please correct if these are wrong. I know its important for a pacman but I dont know about these.

For food ill be feeding him crickets like my other frogs. And dust the with D3 vitamin powder.


Please let me know any important information, sorry for all the questions but I need to be sure hes going to be in the best care he can. I want to have him for a very long time

[fluffypanda]

congrats on getting your frog! I've never owned them but from what i know everything sounds great! but i did hear somewhere (i may be completely wrong) that if you're not using a UV light then you shouldn't dust with D3 because of something~ haha i forgot the rest! so you might want to research the differences between the D3 and the nonD3 to see. or I've gone crazy and just made that up!

[GrifTheGreat]

congrats on getting your frog! I've never owned them but from what i know everything sounds great! but i did hear somewhere (i may be completely wrong) that if you're not using a UV light then you shouldn't dust with D3 because of something~ haha i forgot the rest! so you might want to research the differences between the D3 and the nonD3 to see. or I've gone crazy and just made that up!

You mean if you are using UVB lighting not to use Vitamin D3. The reason for this is because UVB radiation is used by the body to produce vitamin D3 naturaly and if you use UVB in combination with calcium dust that cont contains vitamin D3 it can cause an overload of the vitamin in the frogs system which is the same as poisoning the frog. d3 is used by the body to metabolize calcium in to the bones and for other bodily functions crutial to the health of the frog.

I hope this clearifies what Fluffy was trying to say.

[sobo]

You mean if you are using UVB lighting not to use Vitamin D3. The reason for this is because UVB radiation is used by the body to produce vitamin D3 naturaly and if you use UVB in combination with calcium dust that cont contains vitamin D3 it can cause an overload of the vitamin in the frogs system which is the same as poisoning the frog. d3 is used by the body to metabolize calcium in to the bones and for other bodily functions crutial to the health of the frog.

I hope this clearifies what Fluffy was trying to say.

Well everything is going fine but now you two just worried me :P

I do dust his crickets will powder, but i know you want to do this to keep them heathly. And its even more important when they are babies.
At least this is what i thought :O , he doesnt have a lamp or anything though, so i dont know where you got UVB lighting at. But i do have a room light so this is not a problem right?

[GrifTheGreat]

Well everything is going fine but now you two just worried me :P

I do dust his crickets will powder, but i know you want to do this to keep them heathly. And its even more important when they are babies.
At least this is what i thought :O , he doesnt have a lamp or anything though, so i dont know where you got UVB lighting at. But i do have a room light so this is not a problem right?

It came from Fluffy. I was just clearifying. Nowhere did you say you were using UVB lighting. As a matter of fact you said you didn't have a light on him. That's all.