Graboune, my Giant African Bullfrog

[GRABibus]

The eating machine !

[Mentat]

She sure showed that roach who was bigger !

[Locascio]

he looks alittle bloted... dose he always look that way?

[GRABibus]

he looks alittle bloted... dose he always look that way?

No, not always. Look at the video with the locust for example or former pictures.
Sometimes yes...Maybe it's due here to water ingestion.

Do you think she has a problem ?

[GrifTheGreat]

They're supposed to be pretty heavy set. She looks full of water to me rather than actually bloated.

[GRABibus]

Hi,
some news of my GABF.
End of last week, I put her out of substrate to :
- Clean the enclosure => Done
- To make her defecating => Success
- Tofeed her => Success !

Part 1 :


Part 2:

[GrifTheGreat]

I don't know about destrying, but she savored every last bite Lol!

She looks great GRABibus!

[GRABibus]

I don't know about destrying, but she savored every last bite Lol!

She looks great GRABibus!

Yes, she looks perfect !

[NialR35]

Congratulations on our awesome female!

I read this thread from the beginning and it's awesome how you went from almost giving up on frogs to love them again one more time! How has your aestivation experience been? Did you have to soak her in water to wake her up?

[GRABibus]

Congratulations on our awesome female!

I read this thread from the beginning and it's awesome how you went from almost giving up on frogs to love them again one more time! How has your aestivation experience been? Did you have to soak her in water to wake her up?

Thank you !

I don't allow any estivation as I keep the substrate moist.
But, she is always burried and since last October, even if I try to wake her with soaks and feedings, she burries again and again.
And if I don't wake her, I am sure she won't go out !
Last time she burried was on last 2nd of July, just after the mouse of the video above.
I woke her one week after and soaked her, then she pooped. This was my target.
And when I put her back in the terrarirum, she burried immediately !

Now, as she ate well before burrying, as she has an empty intestine and stomach and as the substrate was clean when she burried, I will let her like this, until she wakes up without my help. I will let do the nature.

She is quite difficult to manage as she prefers definitely to live under the substrate than on the substrate, as a normal adult GABF !

Maybe, I should allow a complete estivation (Dry substrate and increasing of temperature) as maybe she wants to estivate and doesn't succeed due to moist substrate. This coudl explain why she burries again and again.... ?

[GRABibus]

Hey,

after 3 weeks burrowing, my Graboune made me a pleasure : she went out alone !
She spent all teh day in her water bowl, then went out of her water bowl to shed her skin.
And of ourse...She ate like hell !


I am still "In love" with her fantastic colors for a female, a so nice green and orange :




"Hey, it's me : are there any food here ?" :








Just after shedding :
"Am not I the nicest female GABF of the World ?" :










Finally, a part of the meal (After this video, she ate again 3 Dubia roaches and one nightcrawler) !

[GRABibus]

Hi,
I noticed some white things going out of the frog yesterday when she pee (Or maybe pooped, but it seems to be while peeing).
Just an history :
- The 24th of June, she ate a mouse
- The 2nd of July, she defecated the whole mouse or a part of the mouse.
- The same day she burried
- The 22nd of July, she went out of substrate
- The 22nd of July and 23rd of July, she ate 1 nighcrawler and maybe 8 to 9 Dubia roaches, with 2 of them calcium + D3 + multivit.
- The 24th of June and 25th of June, I remarked she made those white things at the same time of pee.

My first comment is that it shouldn't be poops of the meal of the 22nd of July and 23rd of July, because she did these white things the day after the last meal, which is too short time after the last meal for poops.

So, I could see 3 explanations :
- It is some remaining things of the mouse that she ate 1 months ago (Fur ?)
- It is parasitic : but as I think it is not poop (It was done during peeing when I saw it the first time), I doubt...
- it could be urates. Why do I say that ? I saw on a forum this hypothesis and when I check on the web, I saw some pictures of this urates which seem to be the same thing.

What' s your opinion ? (I didn't take any pictures)
Are urates a problem ?

Of course, next time she poops (Even if I don't see any white things), I go to a vet for fecal analysis.

[GrifTheGreat]

Hi,
I noticed some white things going out of the frog yesterday when she pee (Or maybe pooped, but it seems to be while peeing).
Just an history :
- The 24th of June, she ate a mouse
- The 2nd of July, she defecated the whole mouse or a part of the mouse.
- The same day she burried
- The 22nd of July, she went out of substrate
- The 22nd of July and 23rd of July, she ate 1 nighcrawler and maybe 8 to 9 Dubia roaches, with 2 of them calcium + D3 + multivit.
- The 24th of June and 25th of June, I remarked she made those white things at the same time of pee.

My first comment is that it shouldn't be poops of the meal of the 22nd of July and 23rd of July, because she did these white things the day after the last meal, which is too short time after the last meal for poops.

So, I could see 3 explanations :
- It is some remaining things of the mouse that she ate 1 months ago (Fur ?)
- It is parasitic : but as I think it is not poop (It was done during peeing when I saw it the first time), I doubt...
- it could be urates. Why do I say that ? I saw on a forum this hypothesis and when I check on the web, I saw some pictures of this urates which seem to be the same thing.

What' s your opinion ? (I didn't take any pictures)
Are urates a problem ?

Of course, next time she poops (Even if I don't see any white things), I go to a vet for fecal analysis.

Its mucus. They produce excess mucus for various reasons. If it is just white and not pink or red then there is most likely nothing to worry about.

[GRABibus]

Video from the 3rd November 2011 :





And video from the 24th August 2013 :




Nothing has changed during roughly 2 years, except the size of the monster !

[GrifTheGreat]

She looks perfect!

[GRABibus]

Hey,
I have seen a lot of threads here speaking about some hybrids GABF species. Example here :

http://www.frogforum.net/african-bul...yxie-frog.html

When I look at the differences between edulis and adspersusi, it is mentionned :
- Distance between eye and typanum = eye diameter => edulis
- No interorbital eye bar => edulis

My female has both mentionned characteristics above (No interorbital

But when you see all the pictures of my female, it appears really as a Giant and not a Dwarf.

Could you please give me some explanations ?

Thank you.

[GrifTheGreat]

Hey,
I have seen a lot of threads here speaking about some hybrids GABF species. Example here :

http://www.frogforum.net/african-bul...yxie-frog.html

When I look at the differences between edulis and adspersusi, it is mentionned :
- Distance between eye and typanum = eye diameter => edulis
- No interorbital eye bar => edulis

My female has both mentionned characteristics above (No interorbital

But when you see all the pictures of my female, it appears really as a Giant and not a Dwarf.

Could you please give me some explanations ?

Thank you.

Your girl is definitely a Giant. Not a dwarf or hybrid.

[GRABibus]

Hi all !

A long time I didn't come on the forum !

Just some news :
- My female Pyxie frog (Roughly 3 years old) is burried since 7 months !
- My male Chacoan Horned Frog (Less than 1 year old) is burried since 4 months !

I checked them some days ago and they seem perfectly healthy.

I try now since many days to wake them up by moisting a lot the substrates and heating again...But no success at the moment....They are so lazy

[Heatheranne]

Hi! Nice to have you back!
I always love seeing updates of your Pyxie!

[GrifTheGreat]

Hi all !

A long time I didn't come on the forum !

Just some news :
- My female Pyxie frog (Roughly 3 years old) is burried since 7 months !
- My male Chacoan Horned Frog (Less than 1 year old) is burried since 4 months !

I checked them some days ago and they seem perfectly healthy.

I try now since many days to wake them up by moisting a lot the substrates and heating again...But no success at the moment....They are so lazy

Welcome back!

Ha ha! Laziness is in their nature. Have you tried just digging them up and placing them in a water dish?