new to forum and afb...here's my girl

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

Lab bread feeder mice "jumper" should be ok once a month as a treat.
But Night crawlers , Dubia roaches. Crickets should be the staple. also dusting every other feeding with calcium+D3 and once a week with multivitamin
is recommended.
Gut loading crickets 48 hrs prior to feeding is a good idea for all your pets.
you can gut load with fresh veg or with store bought gut load cricket feed.
Meal worms, super worms, butter worms. horn worms. wax worms all should be fed as a treat.
Highly recommend starting a dubia roach colony, yes it takes time but it will pay for it self and you know 100% what you are feeding
to your babies.

BTW welcome to the forum.

[GrifTheGreat]

Read this http://www.frogforum.net/content/afr...-breeding-118/.

There should be a small drop in temp at night, but it doesn't have to be much. Also that looks like a small male rather than female and females don't get the size of dinner plates so the pet store was wrong. Normally in nearly all frog species there is sexual dimorphism where one gender(usually the female) is larger than the other. In GABFs its the opposite. The male grows much larger than the female. Males range from 6" to 8" in captivity with some wild specimens reaching 9" to 10" SVL.

A Varied diet is key and you can offer all of those foods, but mice should be once or twice a month fornthese frogs and fish I would avoide due larg parasite and disease factors.

Read the care article. It will provide you with some great information and some of their life history.

[Teh Frog Whisperer]

Welcome to the forum! It sounds to me like you're taking excellent care of your frog. And I'm about 97% sure that your "girl" is actually a DUDE based on the picture. Being a male and all, he's gonna get big. Like Grif said, sexual dimorphism in African Bullfrog's is the opposite of pretty much all other frogs.

[stinax182]

a male? really? that's exciting, i wanted a male but thought because he was mostly white underneath with little yellow coloring that it was female. i assumed it was too young to tell based on size but that's what you guys are for! thank you for the reply. i will have a drop in night temp and start a dubia colony soon (I've tried once before but i believe i didn't buy enough for a starter colony)

[stinax182]

is a night time drop in temp to 73°-75°alright? or is that too low?

[GrifTheGreat]

is a night time drop in temp to 73°-75°alright? or is that too low?

Stay around 78° night time.

[Mentat]

Agree with others that it's a male (the head to body ratio supports that). Would appreciate a photo of head from the side. Do not pay much attention to what shop told you; they are wrong in all counts. Frog looks healthy; but if really 1 year old should be larger if a GABF. Do read the article Colleen/Jerrod linked; that will get you started right.

Remember to mix the substrate with dechlorinated tap only. Main thing is to feed a varied diet based on night crawlers and dubias/crickets. The latter should be gut loaded with lettuce, carrots, oats, and cherios for 24-48 hours before feeding. Insects should be sized same as distance between frogs eyes or smaller. IRT mammals, can give a small one once a month. Too large a mammal can rot inside the frog before it can be digested and kill it. Can use this guide for dusting food: http://www.frogforum.net/food-feeder...schedules.html. Good luck !