New species for me and need help

[Kurt]

I don't use basking lights with my fire-bellies. Check out the care articles for more information.

[Buck Rogers]

I've gone over the caresheet and seems pretty straight forward. I greatly underestimated the size of this little one, it is really small! I chucked in some flightless fruit flies and straight away ate them, crickets it was not too interested in. I am concerned though, this little one seems to have a very large head in proportion to its body, in other species I would have said this has been 'starved' but is this normal for them to have large heads?

I will snap some shots so that you can let me know if this is normal but just left it alone tonight.

Thanks for the help!

Oh and 2 painted reed frogs came with this one as well, so fun, fun, fun in my house tonight!

[Kurt]

Painted reeds? Awesome! Sounds like your fire-bellies are under weight.

[John]

Congratulations on your new acquisitions Darryn. Best of luck with them.

[Buck Rogers]

It is extremely under weight, it looks like it ate quite a lot last night so going to keep feeding it steady amounts till it gets to a proper size, apparently its over a year old but its just way too small for this age. I read the caresheet and did some searches for more information and feel that I know what I am doing, its always just a bit nerve raking to get a species you have never worked with.

Kurt - The reed frogs made me very nervous, I have tried to keep them before with no success so was not too excited about taking them on, but last night it looks like the larger of the 2 ate a few flightless fruit flies and small crickets.

I have all of these frogs in temporary Addis/Tupperware tubs for the time being so that I can keep them warm and monitor their eating.

[Kurt]

Make sure the reed frogs have good ventilation. Good luck wit these guys.

[Buck Rogers]

These are the pics I promised of the FBT, this little guy (assuming its male, please confirm) is supposed to be over a year old and as you can see is really small. I moved him from a small temporary housing to a larger one and really stoked to see that he is very active and eating nicely. I really think this will turn out nicely. Any idea of the actual species based on these photos?






These are the 2 painted reed frogs which were also given to me, you can see how small the little one is which is really intimidating, but I have seen it chasing little crickets which is a good start. The larger one is feeding like a demon which is fantastic. I have not had great success with these in the past so really stoked to see they doing well

Kurt - why do you say they should have good ventilation, this particular species came from Kwa-Zulu Natal which has an extremely high humidity (similar to Florida, USA), so my thinking was too give them really nice humidity. Basically I am keeping them like hatchling Chondro Pythons, in an Tupperware that's a bit taller, with moist paper towel, and a large water bowl. The tupperware is sitting on top of another enclosure so it catches some of the warmth form a heating pad which is creating the humidity in the Tupperware.

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.