My first frog! (common gray)

[brian c]

yep i agree with amy on the tadpole before we started up our pool again you should have seen all them suckers!

[LilyPad]

Great point about stress! This one seems to be adjusting well. She sleeps during the day, and is active at night. She doesn't "spook" at all when we are in the room. She eats very well, she took a cricket right in front of me, didn't seem to even notice I was staring at her.

(for the record I am just guessing that this frog is female, I don't know for sure)

How big is she snout to vent? That is usually a pretty good indicator, although I have one female that is the same size as my male. Any dark markings on the throat?

[SomethingIsFishy]

I don't see any markings. Will have to get a measurement tonite, I'm at work right now...

[SomethingIsFishy]

Snout to vent is about 1-1/4"

[LilyPad]

Could be a young female or a male then. With females, the throat is nice and white. With a mature male, the throats get darker. I will try to get some pictures to show you later.

[SomethingIsFishy]

Managed to get a decent pic the other day.



(S)he is eating very well, and shows no signs of stress. (S)he took three crickets pretty much as soon as I put them in the tank last night!

[SomethingIsFishy]

Update: froggy is doing well!! Added some more "foliage", and just today I found a better tank by the dumpster outside our apartment!! Same length and width as the 29 gallon, but considerably taller!! Just have to collect some bigger sticks/branches to take advantage of the taller tank...

[ColleenT]

Congrats, i hope she does ok. i have some baby Grays, and they are so darn cute.

Amy- just a side question- do you feed your grays any mealworms, ever? i am not sure if this is a food they would naturally eat? or if the mealworms are not good for them . mine are babies and altho i found some very small mealworms, i still worry. your frogs are adults, so i thought i would ask.

[LilyPad]

Congrats, i hope she does ok. i have some baby Grays, and they are so darn cute.

Amy- just a side question- do you feed your grays any mealworms, ever? i am not sure if this is a food they would naturally eat? or if the mealworms are not good for them . mine are babies and altho i found some very small mealworms, i still worry. your frogs are adults, so i thought i would ask.

I did on very rare occasions but would not recommend it. It was nice to have something in the fridge if I couldn't get to the store get crickets for some reason or another, usually in winter. I am lucky that we have a store right in town that sells crickets now. Makes my life a lot easier and haven't bought mealworms since. I have been keeping crickets on hand at all times now anyway for the red eyes. Before I had them, I only bought as-needed because I hate keeping crickets in the house.