How long to maturity for Pacific Chorus Frog?

[Frog Mom]

I've tried looking around to find the answer and I'm probably just missing it. I'm wondering how long it takes for them to reach maturity. I've had them since they were tadpoles in March, and I'm wondering at what point we will find out how many are boys vs. girls.

Thanks for any input.

[John]

Possibly within a year, if fed right.

[Frog Mom]

Cool. Thanks.

[TheMaskedMan]

If you feed them crickets and fatten them up, they will grow pretty fast and mature around Feb/March and you will see the males throats get dark by then....if they are in the wild it's takes them much longer, about a year or 2. My tadpoles from last year bred this year before they were a year old.

[Frog Mom]

Awesome. I've been feeding them crickets dusted with the Repti-Cal D3 powder, and then supplementing with fruit flies. Some of them are really plumping up.

[SludgeMunkey]

It is all about food and temperature. I have raised various Pseudacris to breeding in 8 months.

[TheMaskedMan]

Carefull not to over feed them...they will eat every cricket in the tank non stop....I had one that ate so much he exploded. Also they like cool temps.....dont leave them in direct sunlight or too hot......and I also have had them breed this way at about 8 months, in the wild they take over a year.

[Frog Mom]

I try to put 10 or so crickets in there every night. There are 7 frogs, so I figure that's enough for them each to get one, and a couple extra for the hungrier guys. I get the smallest crickets I can find. And I shake a few fruit flies in every other day. I'm assuming after they are older I can go down to feeding every other day, right?

As far as temperatures go, their tank seems pretty stable at 71 degrees. We have air conditioning and that's about what we keep our house at. They are also away from any windows, skylights, or heat vents. They seem to all be doing really well.

I'm not really hoping to breed any. In fact, I'd rather not. I'm just mainly concerned about when we are going to get to the noisy phase of having these frogs, and how many of them are going to be making the noise. LOL!

[TheMaskedMan]

Fed them very other night...they wont die dont worry..71 is about warm as you want it..they like 68.......around April/May you will be able to see who are the males....and breed they will you have no control over that.....and yes...the males are really really loud.

[Frog Mom]

Thanks for the input. I guess I'll find out how annoying they are next spring. I'll just have to separate them once I know who is what so that I don't get any babies.

[TheMaskedMan]

I would then just release the females and keep a couple of males, becousue they will mate eventually.