My first frog

[Kurt]

How about naming one "Kulathirrie". It's Australian Aboriginal for frog.

[Iceni]

I got a WTF a few moths ago, and there ace! Love mine to bits, Even when you open the tank and he jumps on your face!

I feed mine a mixture of locust hoppers, Crickets, meal worms and the odd wax worm if we get them as a treat for the beardie.

There a very undemanding animal for the most part, I started mine on coconuts husk, with a large water bowl and some bogwood.

The set-up has then been changed to the water bowl, a bigger more spindly piece of bogwood, and some terrarium silk plants. These frogs don't seem overly stressed by anything! they will quite happily be picked up and sit in your hand provided you don't try to stroke them too much. There very attentive, and mine will croak at the kettle! They also know when it's feeding time. And watch you like a hawk when there feeling hungry! Be careful tho as they will overfeed if you let them! Mine has been known to eat 4-5 decent sized hoppers then keep searching for more! You can tell if the frog is getting overweight by the folds above his ears, after a few weeks of having him you will soon learn they will eat far more than they need, and you have to ration them to feeding every few days.




As for colouration, When mine was on coconut husk he was a brown green, Since i have added the plants and removed the substrate he has gone to a Bright blue green. Often he will have have spots of other colour about his personage, I think this is more to to with where he has been sat and and if he has bumped himself. If i feed him locusts he's normally got a few light scratched on his face as well. He will generally leap on them with little or no regard for his safety! I don't think it harms them tho! and he seems to enjoy the larger food much more than crickets.




Don't take any of my post as advice per say, I'm still very much a noob when it comes to frogs, I'm probably doing a lot of things incorrectly myself as i'm still on a learning curve and having my own problems with a smaller set of frogs that a recently purchased!

[Kurt]

Don't take any of my post as advice per say, I'm still very much a noob when it comes to frogs, I'm probably doing a lot of things incorrectly myself

Your advice was good, and what you wrote was the correct husbandry for this species.

[lraulston]

THanks for all the advice guys. John, you had to post a picture didn't you. lol. Cute little guys. I would love to take them, but for now I am going to stick to and focus on my white's. Not sure it would be fair to the grays that I am just starting out etc and might not be ready to take on a load for two species yet. Plus I don't think I could find another place for a tank. THank you so much for thinking of me though.

Well, Frog 2 was coming out last night as I was going to bed. Hope he got something to eat. Should I take him out to feed him tonight so that I know he has eaten? So far I can tell them apart. Frog 1 is a purple/brown/green color and Frog 2 is bright green. Frog 1 is way more social and sits on the the branches and watches you and just hangs out. Frog 2 is hiding on a leaf this morning.

[Kurt]

Should I take him out to feed him tonight so that I know he has eaten?

You can if you want to. I feed mine in a Rubbermaid box, since their enclosure is flooded. In the box it is really easy to observe their eating habits.

[lraulston]

okay. Speaking of frog #2, I was a little concerned about him. Last night as he was coming out from the leaf he had been sleeping on, he was climbing up the back of the tank and he was having trouble sticking. He was sliding. I had just misted the tank, could this have made the styrofoam background slippery? or is there something wrong with him? I took him out this morning and put him on the glass. He stayed there, but then gave me that "If I would have wanted here, I would have climbed here" look and climbed down onto a branch. He seemed to stick to the glass okay this morning, until he wanted down, then he crawled down and slid just a bit on the way down, but should I worry? I know I have that "everything could be wrong with my frog" new frog mom stuff going on, but better safe than sorry. I know I have only had them a day and should let them settle in and observe them more before I start diagnosing stuff, but i wanted to know what you guys thought. Thanks for the compliments by the way, they are beautiful frogs.

[Kurt]

he was having trouble sticking. He was sliding. I had just misted the tank, could this have made the styrofoam background slippery? or is there something wrong with him?

No. Misting might have made it more difficult to stick to the glass. Also I have observed frogs that purposely let themselves slide down a surface.

I know I have that "everything could be wrong with my frog" new frog mom stuff going on, but better safe than sorry.

I have been keeping frogs for quite some time now and that feeling never goes away. I am always worried about the health of my frogs. The key is to not let it drive you insane.

[daydreaming]

when i mist my tanlk they do the same thing partly slide and some times fall off but then again when they dart across the tank after the crickets they do sometimes hit the glass with there heads they do things some times that make you think can they redally be that dumb but that is just the way they are.

i have 3 whites one is blue like yours and she is the out going one and a total pig, the other 2 are green but one spends so much time on the cork board at the back it normally stays pretty brown she is the quiet one, dosent eat as easily as the other 2 and the one who stays mainly on the glass hiding inthe fake vine leafs he is just slightly weird he dosent do alot but every now and then croaks whilst im on the phone, he eats alot but the blue one is the greedy one. if the green and blue are out first then the brown dosent get much of a look in when it comes to food but she is now learning to fight her corner.

after a while you will see each does there own thing. then you can kind of work out there patterns how they feed, where they sleep it just takes time and watching. i got mine in to a routine i mist them late at night on the days im going to feed them and this does help with observing them.

[lraulston]

So, got home tonight and my frogs are both soaking in the water dish and seem to have some slimy shedded skin around them. Normal I assume? Should I still try to remove them for feeding or let them stay in?

[John]

Frogs do shed their skin. If they are open to feeding them feed them in or out - it's up to you.

[lraulston]

Well the one frog is not active tonight either. He is still just sitting in the water bowl, not really holding his head up out of the water and when a cricket fell into the water with him and touched him, he shook it off and backed up. The other frog is out about the cage hunting. He seemed fine this morning but I still had no proof that he ever ate last night.Should I be worried?

[John]

Well the one frog is not active tonight either. He is still just sitting in the water bowl, not really holding his head up out of the water and when a cricket fell into the water with him and touched him, he shook it off and backed up. The other frog is out about the cage hunting. He seemed fine this morning but I still had no proof that he ever ate last night.Should I be worried?

That's a worry. It's a pity you can't separate them and observe the water bowl guy on his own. Some frogs suffer stress more than others (just like people are different) so water bowl guy might need more time to settle in. Is he skinny or does he seem otherwise healthy?

[lraulston]

How about naming one "Kulathirrie". It's Australian Aboriginal for frog.

Sounds great Kurt, but I have no idea how to pronounce that! lol. I'd end up going " Kul..Kule...Hey you!"

[lraulston]

Couple of pics. Frog 2 is first pic, Frog 1 is second pic. Man, I have to pick out names.

[John]

Those are nice White's .

[lraulston]

Those are nice White's .

Thanks!