Rococo Toads

[googie]

Hi Guys:

Went to the NY Reptile Amphibian Expo with my son this past weekend and saw a beautiful large toad called a Rococ Toad from South America. Didn't know anything about them, so I did not purchase the animal. Has anybody kept such a toad as a pet, and if so, how is it going. I heard they take the same care as Cane toads.

Thanks googie

[Kurt]

I have one in a 30-gallon. They are a big toad, bigger than the cane/marine toad. Nicer looking too. I feed mine superworms, loads of crickets, hornworms, and so on. Without a doubt, my biggest amphibian.

[googie]

Kurt:

Any place you suggest to purchase one of these fellows. Females are the larger of the gender, correct ? I may be going to the New England Expo on Oct 2. I wonder if they will have them. What would be a reasonable price ?

Chris

[Kurt]

They sell for around $100 or more. I got mine for the Harvard University Museum of Natural History. I believe females are larger in this species.

I am always at Manchester. I run the NEHS table.

[Deku]

Kurt:

Any place you suggest to purchase one of these fellows. Females are the larger of the gender, correct ? I may be going to the New England Expo on Oct 2. I wonder if they will have them. What would be a reasonable price ?

Chris

I know a place called "glade's herps" has them. You can try and ask them to ship one. They sell em as adults for 125dollars. Personally thats the only place I have seen them. It was at an expo though. So you should have luck finding them in an expo too.

[Kurt]

Possibly, but you can never predict what will be for sale at expos other than the real common stuff, and in frogs that's White's, pac-mans, red-eyes, Dendrobates auratus, D. leucolmelas, & D. tinctorius.

[Greatballzofire]

http://www.sandsexoticanimals.com/
Rococo toads @ $75 each. I have not done business with this outfit so don't know one way or the other much else about them. I did learn there is such a thing as a bird poop frog! LOL!

[Kurt]

Yeah, Dendropsophus marmorata, a close relative to my beloved clown treefrog, Dendropsophus leucophyllatus.

[John]

How about some captive bred Sonoran Desert Toads (bottom of advert)? It's not quite as big as a Rococo Toad, but it's the next best thing (and more interesting in my opinion).

[Kurt]

Mine too and I have both species.