Two males just can't figure out what's going on!

[Jenste]

Two of my males...keep taking turns
The "Hey!!! Let go!!! I'm a dude!!" call cracks me up but freaks out my husband.

Sorry for the random jingling noises in the back ground...bells on the cat's collars.


http://youtu.be/0J5bi8jCQ-E

[Creamballman]

Funny, mine do the same exact thing,constantly mounting and sometimes seeming to drown the other. Its a cycle:
They're friends, then they call, then the second the other frog moves he mounts viciously, then he seems to realize the other is rejecting him.

[Hidr]

LOL Poor little boys.

[Mentat]

...call cracks me up but freaks out my husband...

Understand your husband; behavior freaks me out too and also reminds me of male Guppies !

[Duriel]

Lol these frogs sure are characters. I used to feed my 7 firebellies waxworms/phoenix worms... then I saw one frog snatch up a worm and another snatch up the other side. They wrestled for a while over who would eat it, and funny as it was, I thought it a bit too stressful for them. So, I changed their diet to small crickets. The size wasn't the issue. The issue was worms don't move fast enough, so multiple frogs wanted to nom on the same food item. With crickets, they scatter and the frogs get a bit of exercise. Another grrrrrreat thing about firebellies is you can dump a bag of small crickets in and... I assure you... they will be hunted to the last man. No worry about cleaning up dead food or them getting nommed on by their food. Granted, I am currently using a dry setup with a ~half gallon tub for them to swim in. I used to have a more "natural" half n half setup with a filter, but cleaning was a bit of a PITA (especially transferring 7 lively firebellies to a separate home so I could clean... not easy or fun). There's a mucus-y buildup that forms in wet setups (presumably their secretions?) that is unpleasant to clean up (then again, I have 7, so your mileage may vary). I think mine prefer the mostly dry setup. I'll see them splash into the water, float for a bit (and poop I'm assuming... as I've never seen droppings in the substrate), and then get back out. I've also noticed that mine will call when I dump food in (notifying his friends that it's dinner? I dunno).

I'm rambling a bit, but I'm drunk and I love my critters. So sue me lol.