Quote Originally Posted by Pluke View Post
Very nice guide, I was just looking for one of these and couldn't find one. Considering getting a Budgett's frog sometime in the future... just a few questions.

When you have to estivate the frog, does the room have to be a certain temperature or will it know to bury itself when you set it on the soil? And what kind of temperatures should you keep the soil at when the frog is in there? Just room temperatures? Is estivation 100% necessary? And lastly.. Do you have any pictures/videos of your Budgett's frog setup?

Thanks.
I just estivate my frog at room temperature and keep it that way. I doubt estivation is 100% necessary, but I just do it anyway-mostly because it's just natural. I do a similar thing for my Boa constrictor-I put her through a nonfeeding cycle in the winter, once again just because it's NATURAL. And actually healthier for the snake. I figure that this period of dormancy would also be healthy for the Budgett's frog. However, only healthy and fat frogs should be put through estivation.