Traded my horned frog

[SethD]

If he has plenty of experience with both keeping and breeding horned frogs the cornuta probably won't die which is no doubt why he was more than willing to trade for it. The thing about wild caught cornuta is that they often refuse any other food but live frogs. A cornuta that will not touch a cricket, roach or mouse will usually eagerly take a tree frog or a small toad if it has the chance. Some will learn to eat other things eventually and some will continue to be stubborn about taking live frogs only short of force feeding. Many are finicky like that. You probably both got a good deal given your at different points in the hobby.

[Eel Noob]

Can't wait for pictures.

[John911]

Sounds pretty cool and you made the right decision. I was pretty tempted to pick up that pixie from that store.

[braaandooon]

If he has plenty of experience with both keeping and breeding horned frogs the cornuta probably won't die which is no doubt why he was more than willing to trade for it. The thing about wild caught cornuta is that they often refuse any other food but live frogs. A cornuta that will not touch a cricket, roach or mouse will usually eagerly take a tree frog or a small toad if it has the chance. Some will learn to eat other things eventually and some will continue to be stubborn about taking live frogs only short of force feeding. Many are finicky like that. You probably both got a good deal given your at different points in the hobby.

well i definatly lack experience, and i have only kept one other frog, which is the cranwelli that resides in my bedroom and has done very well, i guess i just ran out of patience, in the final three days, i introduced a grey tree frog, and the suriname did not even move a finger in those three days, i may be no expert, but i know a sick animal when i see one, im pretty positive the stress and heat from shipping stressed this frog out to the point of awakening a bacterial or parasitic infection that had probably been lying dormant in this frog since arrival to the united states, i really did feel that the shipping box felt way to hot and the frog showed up in an almost lifeless state, received an update on the frog this morning and apparently there have been no improvement, so thats a bummer, but every once in awhile sometimes you just receive a bad apple, and those bad apples seem to pop up more with some of the animals i keep, like the cornuta, people typically buy groups and loose a few, just wish i had that kinda spare change, even the gulper catfish i keep are the same way, they require difficult to keep water conditions, and some attention to detail, these fish also jump started me into the pacman hobby as apparently i have a fascination with animals that can eat prey animals that equal in size, i had ordered three of those and ended up losing one, but i now have 2 giant healthy gulpers eating prey fish that almost double in size of itself, anyways i now have one great fantasy frog that just wont stop eating, which leads me to asking if a juvenile pacman frog can eat to much? i'll try to get some pics up soon, have to work all weekend, so pics will have to wait until i get some free time

[braaandooon]

also just glad i was able to get somthing in return, in most cases i wouldve been stuck with a dying animal, even though theres a possibility of the suriname recovering, i like my odds with the fantasy frog, i even still have a grey tree frog thats life was spared buy the horned frog not eating it, but unfortunately i have to find it a new home because my better half will only let me keep two frogs so that sucks to, luckily i know someone that wants to add a tree frog to there collection

[braaandooon]

well received the bad news today that the suriname i had traded has passed away, kind of a bummer, i feel a little bad that this frog couldnt pull through, sometimes the inevitable happens, at least my new friend wasnt to upset as he has what seems like hundreds of frogs, and knew this frog was sick, anyways he wished me well with the fantasy frog he traded me, anyways my new frog is doing well and eating like crazy, pooping well and seems more at ease in his new surrounding, i took a few pics but just not digging the quality, maybe el noob could let me borrow his a camera for a week or two, j/k