Spotted Marsh Frog

[CatherineM]

The first of our Spotted Marsh Frog tadpoles (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis) has morphed. It is about the size of my fingernail. We have placed pin head crickets in the enclosure.

Is any one else on the forum keeping these frogs or something similar?

[Mentat]

Hi Catherine ! Do you have any pics of the froglets? What kind of set-up do you keep them? Thank you!

[CatherineM]

[CatherineM]

We have opened the curtains to try and get a better picture. We will lower the water level when the rest of the tadpoles morph.


Picture 2. Froglet is below side black rock on the right side.

Picture 3. Froglet is below the 3 green leaves.

[CatherineM]

The little marsh frog has now being joined by a southern brown frog. We have a seven further tadpoles, 6 appear to be marsh tadpoles and one a southern brown. Some have four legs.

[Mentat]

That's a lot of frogs; what are your plans for them ?

[Heatheranne]

So adorable .

[taniaaust1]

Ive been having an exciting time out in the rain lol.

A baby spotted frog in my pond is very hungry. Baby crickets are soo hard to catch in the container and a dead cricket was the result, so I dropped the dead cricket the slab in the pond it front of it (not expecting him to eat it, I thought wild frogs probably eat only moving things). Anyway the bady frog ate it dead off the concrete.

So I dropped some crickets in the water with it.. and it started going after those too.. the baby frog got very excited and me along with it. So I started putting half drowned crickets onto a stick and giving them to him from the stick. He was letting me a hand length from him and then coming to get the crickets. Sadly Im out of crickets now and wont have more for days, so he's now going to have to hunt for bugs out there himself. (this frog has been a frog for just over a week or so and is hanging around in the pond and hasnt moved on like the others do. Im seeing him every 2-3 days).

I'll buy him the next size crickets then. He's almost an itch in size now.

[taniaaust1]

Maybe this could interest someone. On gumtree, someone is selling an (orange) albino spotted marsh frog for $150 neg. RARE ALBINO SPOTTED MARSH FROG FOR GOOD HOME. | Reptiles & Amphibians | Gumtree Australia Tea Tree Gully Area - Highbury | 1043589088

Makes one wish one had albinos appearing in the pond.

[CatherineM]

We have finished setting up a second tank today and moved Mr/Mrs Brown to the second tank.

Although it's ok to keep "Southern Brown Frogs" and "Spotted Marsh Frogs" together in the same tank.

It is not ok to keep a "Green Tree Frog" with "Spotted Marsh Frogs".

We have total of 6 Frogs, 5 Spotted Marsh Frogs" and "Green Tree Frog" . The tree has lost the brown stripe.

[taniaaust1]

A while back, I decided to take two of my spotted marsh tabpoles out of the pond and have them inside so I could experience what it was like to really keep frogs, rather then just having them outside in the pond.

They are both doing well, one should have front legs any day now. One thing Ive found out from doing this is they just love to eat waterlily leaves which are just starting to decay 2 tabpoles are eatting a whole miniture waterlily leaf every 6 days. Im amazed at how fast these tabpoles will eat an actual leaf.

Before this I'd been just giving them some fish food flakes which they never got the grip of sucking in from the surface as they'd previous been feeding from the pond bottom. They werent like my previous ones (now frogs and left the pond) which were got from a pet shop and did know how to eat those from surface of water.