new to fire bellied toads

[jasonm96]

This could be the males just at it but unless the females are fat and full of eggs, nothing will really result from it.

A lot of frogs can hold hold their breath under water for some time. Some even hibernate under the water, so this should be fine. My males regularly take the females under the water when breeding.

[alane]

Well, the grabee was larger, but not fat like you see in youtube videos. they are all quite animated, these frogs. i want to feed them an earthworm and see what happens.

I have not seen any fighting like you see on youtube. This group seems pretty copacetic together.

I guess i'll see how they adapt to their environment in the coming month. It's fascinating to watch.

When they are hungry...and you drop a cricket into the enclosure...and six frogs all perk up and go hunting....very very cool. Some crickets last about 300 milliseconds from when they hit the floor.

There is one with sort of odd looking eyes compared to the rest. I was wondering if it was blind. Then I saw it jump through the air and catch a cricket. lol. they are all very perceptive.

[jasonm96]

They are one of the greediest frogs, never had issues with them refusing food as with some other frogs!

I seen a yellow-bellied toad with some sort of eye problem in a reputable zoo before, it could maybe be a defect but it could be an infection which could lead to blindness. You might be able to lookup online how to cure that, if it is anything

[alane]

They are one of the greediest frogs, never had issues with them refusing food as with some other frogs!

I seen a yellow-bellied toad with some sort of eye problem in a reputable zoo before, it could maybe be a defect but it could be an infection which could lead to blindness. You might be able to lookup online how to cure that, if it is anything

The eyes looks clear. The iris looks a little lighter than the rest, the pupils look smaller, even constricted. But when the little frog spots something a third of the tank away and makes an accurate strike, I am convinced it can see okay. Large, active hungry frog.
I will call him Psycho Shockeye.

No kidding about the food. Last night I dumped five crickets in and they were ALL GONE before I could sit down and watch. If a cricket gets into the plants, the frogs can easily see the bugs shadow. Drives them nuts. They even go after drowning crickets. I do not have to clean many drowned crickets out of this watery cage.

[alane]

When I got them, a few days ago, the skin on my right hand's thumb and index finger dried out and disintegrated. Cracked and bled. As if I had been to the desert and had been handing sandstone for weeks. I did not touch these suckers; I minimized what I touched.

Then it occurred to me. When I got them, they came from the store in 3 containers.

I wanted to reuse those containers.

So I washed them out.

With my right hand instead of a washcloth or anything. Just water and my hand. Rinse off whatever is in those containers.

waitaminit...

Huge mistake. Apparently, I may have gotten a boatload of frog poison and it actually affected my skin. I don't know for sure. But I think trying to rinse out containers of a mildly poisonous frog with my bare hands was a terribly stupid mistake.


Their metabolism is so fast, it's as if they poop out last night's cricket in the morning.

Fun to watch and learn.

[alane]

Photo of my new setup:



40 gallon tank with about 12 gallons of water in it. 30" by 12", 18" tall.
Two floating platforms, one small size and one medium size. An array of artificial plants. Air bubbler and external filter keeps the water quite clean.
Six mosquito fish in the water.

I want to add a little more high ground, so I think i'll add one of those waterfalls.


And three of its inhabitants:







The artificial fern is touching the water return such that it gets a slow trickle and creates a bunch of slow drips. The frogs love to hang out under a drip.

One of them appears to be begging right now, so i better get smoe crickets.

I let them eat as much as they wanted last night "at one sitting". Wow.

[Froggie85]

Like your set up . How is it so moist in there where is all the condensation coming from ? This is my tank set up

adult image

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[Froggie85]

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