Did anyone else own Upland Chorus Frogs?

[deranged chipmunk]

I never have kept them, but did enjoy the story. I'll be honest, the 2 in 1 safari tank piqued my interest. Would you mind telling us more about it?

And I'm pretty sure you are right, there may be one or two of us that keep frogs here lol


Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world ~ Nelson Mandela

[LilyPad]

If the safari tank is what I am thinking of, it's a frog lover's nightmare - http://d3gqasl9vmjfd8.cloudfront.net...c561ae59d0.png

For the future, a cheap temp qt tank can be made from a 10 gallon tank or an XL Kritter Keeper if really in a pinch.

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

If the safari tank is what I am thinking of, it's a frog lover's nightmare - http://d3gqasl9vmjfd8.cloudfront.net...c561ae59d0.png

For the future, a cheap temp qt tank can be made from a 10 gallon tank or an XL Kritter Keeper if really in a pinch.

Yes I now know about it, I learned when we got the original fire-bellies, but we thought it would have been okay since it was anywhere from 1 two 3 days, but we were wrong. If we had just not used that thing she probably would still be here

[LilyPad]

Yeah, I understand. That's unfortunate.

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Also, for people who haven't made an account on the forum, because they just want the care info, I kept mine in a setup that looked like a red-eyed tree frog enclosure, but with lower humidity. Probably anywhere from 30-50 percent. They like to soak, but since they are so small, they could drown in a larger water dish, so get them something they can put their butts in, or if you need to use a large dish, make it easy for them to climb out of it if need be. Surprisingly, Amp loved to dig, so give them 2-4 inches of a soft, humidity holding soil, like eco-earth, coconut husk, or zoo-med jungle mix. (my personal favorite) They can eat surprisingly large prey, so you can feed small to medium crickets, adult mealworm beetles, earthworms/night-crawlers, fruit flies, other flies, and for a skinny or sick one, tiny wax-worms. You can expect them to live for about 8-10 years, but in order to get them, since nobody has them for sale or is breeding them (Maybe zoos, but they won't give you their frogs) so you will have to catch one. Notice I said one, not a whole breeding population. They will probably be fairly old when you get them (anywhere from 4-6 years) and will have a shorter life-span, but will make excellent captives nonetheless. For people who want a dart frog, this is a good practice species, if you can supply small enough foods for a chorus frog, than you can supply small enough foods and care for PDFs.

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Also, for people who haven't made an account on the forum, because they just want the care info, I kept mine in a setup that looked like a red-eyed tree frog enclosure, but with lower humidity. Probably anywhere from 30-50 percent. They like to soak, but since they are so small, they could drown in a larger water dish, so get them something they can put their butts in, or if you need to use a large dish, make it easy for them to climb out of it if need be. Surprisingly, Amp loved to dig, so give them 2-4 inches of a soft, humidity holding soil, like eco-earth, coconut husk, or zoo-med jungle mix. (my personal favorite) They can eat surprisingly large prey, so you can feed small to medium crickets, adult mealworm beetles, earthworms/night-crawlers, fruit flies, other flies, and for a skinny or sick one, tiny wax-worms. You can expect them to live for about 8-10 years, but in order to get them, since nobody has them for sale or is breeding them (Maybe zoos, but they won't give you their frogs) so you will have to catch one. Notice I said one, not a whole breeding population. They will probably be fairly old when you get them (anywhere from 4-6 years) and will have a shorter life-span, but will make excellent captives nonetheless. For people who want a dart frog, this is a good practice species, if you can supply small enough foods for a chorus frog, than you can supply small enough foods and care for PDFs.

Oh, I forgot to say what type of tank that they need! Two can live in a large kritter keeper if you are in a pinch, but they generally do better in a 5-any size higher terrarium, that can be either tall or wide. Their adaptivity is simply amazing! Oh, and someone else on frog forum apparently kept these guys as well. http://www.frogforum.net/other-frogs...rus-frogs.html

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

I never have kept them, but did enjoy the story. I'll be honest, the 2 in 1 safari tank piqued my interest. Would you mind telling us more about it?

And I'm pretty sure you are right, there may be one or two of us that keep frogs here lol


Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world ~ Nelson Mandela

The backyard safari tank was about as big as a medium kritter keeper, and it's one third land, with a plastic log, and two thirds water, which for the water to stay without leaking they had to insert a plastic piece, that had space underneath it. Every insect I put in there would either go in the water and drown, crawl underneath the lining and die, or run to the left which had another problem. The plastic that went over it, and made sure that the water area stayed, had a gap just small enough for them to fit under/get stuck and die. What happened to amp, was when we fed her, flippers and chrysoscelis in their feeding tank(a small kritter keeper) , (original names, I know) she ate a few dusted crickets, and kept jumping for about the whole 5 minuets I gave them to eat their crickets, got tired and stressed, and even more so when I put them back in the water area of the tank. When we did, she stayed in there with her legs drooping/head down, so I went and tried to get her out of the water area, but she crawled underneath the lining. I carried the thing into the bathroom to get her out(She was in my room and I didn't want the Cope's grays and the crickets to get out in my room, where I couldn't find them) And she broke either one or more of her rear vertebrae, and lost the use of her hind legs. Me and my father were considering euthanizing her, but she past away on her own either a couple days before or after thanksgiving.