Blue leopard frog?

[XDragonFrogX]

I have no idea so im no help lol but im curious about him! Could you post a picture?

[UncleChester]

Add 'axanthic' to your search terms and you'll have more luck. It's genetic and caused by missing or messed up yellow pigmentation. Yellow+Blue=Green, and the yellow has been taken away.

It seems to be fairly rare, but you do get local populations. I have a few Rana clamitans with blue heads at my pond, but no full on blue yet. Here's a population of Rana clamitans with some that are full on blue: Parks Canada - Thousand Islands National Park of Canada - It isn't easy being blue

Someone on here has a blue Hyla cinerea, and I've seen a few more pictures of them on the web.

Can't wait for pictures of the Leopard that you found!

[MCCPC]

Thank you Brian! I knew there had to be a term for it! Very cool interesting stuff. I got the photos & I'm downloading them from my camera now... not sure if I'm going to have them up tonight though. Loooong day and I don't know if I have the patience for going through them & re-sizing and loading them into image shack at the moment, but if not tonight, then I'll have them up tomorrow I promise! Picked up some crickets today & blue frog ate them right up

[MCCPC]

Oky, here we go! Blue frog photos:



*Wanted to add, the normal frogs will be going back to their stream today. Blue frog will be staying with me

[FriedrichsFrogs]

holy **** that is awesome! the gold and black against their blue looks realy cool

[Psychotic]

What a lovely frog and lucky find! I'm always on the lookout for unusual wildlife. I have never found a fully blue frog (that wasn't naturally blue). I have found a green frog with a blue head before.

Do you have any plans to attempt breeding? I'm not sure about this gene but I would assume that it is recessive like albino.

[UncleChester]

Gorgeous frog Thanks for sharing!

[MCCPC]

Thank you all for the comments!

Ashley, yes I would like to try breeding the blue frog, after I learn more about frog husbandry. To be honest, I'm not even sure how to tell male from female, aside from the fact that only males croak/chirp! So far I haven't herd a peep out of blue frog. Our last leopard frog would sing all the time- especially when my husband played his acoustic guitar. That frog was such a character. It's kind of nice having frogs around again.

I say *frogs* plural because we have ended up keeping two others from the same location, and I admit part of the reason for that is a desire to breed the blue frog. One is a typical colored leopard frog for this area, sort of a light olive/tan with nice green spots. The other is super saturated green. I've never had more than one leopard frog at once, so I don't know if I'm reading too much into it, but they really seem to enjoy each other's company. I have the viv set up with live grass & moss which they really seem to enjoy. They are all feeding well on gut-loaded crickets.

If anyone has any advice for sexing, breeding, ect, I would welcome it