Hej!

[Lina]

My name's Lina and I would like to introduce myself and my African Bullfrog Karybdis which I got a couple of days ago. According to the guy in the pet shop it's about three months old. It's 5-6 cm long and so far pretty shy. I don't know if it's a female or male, guess it's still too young to be sexed. Yesterday it ate two crickets and I got impressed by its speed when catching them. This is my first frog so I'm trying to learn as much as possible to be able to give it a jolly good life. Here's a photo of Karybdis. S/he picked the wallpaper her-/himself and seems very pleased with it.

[Lija]

beautiful baby you got here, congratulations and welcome to the forum!

edit- is it coco husk he is sitting on? you gotta change it to coconut fiber ( plantation soil, eco earth)

[Lina]

Thank you Lija, it seems to be a very nice forum! Thanks also for the comment on the substrate. The guy in the pet shop recommended this and I knew that it's good to use coconut for them since they can digest that. But I got rather surprised when I put it into the water to swell because there were so big chunks in it. I was worried that it might be harmful for my frog to swallow them, causing impaction. Now I understand there are different types of substrates based on coconut... Thank you! I will buy a proper one today and change. A bit annoyed that the guy in the pet shop recommended this to me. They call themselves experts on reptiles and amphibians...

[Lija]

They call themselves experts on reptiles and amphibians...

oh i can write a novel about pet stores and their advices lol i mean don't get me wrong some of them do actually know something, but majority.... and then we have threads here " help my frog is dying...."

anyhow, check the care sheet here on a forum and the african bullfrog section, you'll get tons of information + some more

that it might be harmful for my frog to swallow them, causing impaction.

exactly!

[Raya]

Hi there and welcome!

Always nice to see another swede on the forum!
Your bullfrog is very cute. I've got a dwarf female myself and see's a blast to keep. I hope you're gonna enjoy yours just as much.

Pretty unique name you gave your frog, sounds like something out of a fantasy novel?


Anyway, hope you enjoy your stay here and I'll see you around the forum!

[deeishealthy]

Welcome to the forum! I'm fairly new myself. If I could give you one bit of advice, it's "read". You are going to find a wealth of information in these forums. I spend hours cruising links on topics (when you search a topic and read a thread, at the bottom if other threads are tagged similarly they are listed. You can investigate topics for hours here... literally). I feel way better prepared for frog husbandry because of the amount of reading I did.