easy care frog.

[snappleWhiteTea]

im interested in getting a frog but im not sure what i should get, i heard pac man frog were easy to care for pretty much. if you have any species to recommend please do!

-casey

 

[blazetown]

The majority of them are fairly easy to take care of. I would say the two easiest frog/toad species are the african clawed frog and firebelly toad. Depends on what you want though. You can go arboreal with an easy and cheap American green tree frog or terrestrial with a pacman. Usually price indicates the level of care as a rule with most frogs and toads. Dart frogs that cost like 50 bucks a pop need tiny food and a fair amount of care. An African clawed frog at 10 bucks a pop can live through almost anything and eats everything. On the other hand an albino pacman may cost you something like 30-40 bucks but is insanely easy to care for as long as you keep things like gravel out of its tank(anything undigestible that can be accidentally eaten can cause intestinal problems).

 

[redrumpslump]

my buddy has a white dumpy and hes really cool goes head first for crickets hilarious to watch

 

[maitre]

Hardiest amphibian I've worked with is the Cane toad - bufo murinus. Seriously, if you want something that can handle almost any condition, this is it.

Provide a large water dish, some deep substrate, and a hide. You don't even need to make sure the substrate is moist (but it's nice if you do) because it's a toad and its skin isn't meant to be moist all the time.

You NEED to provide it with fresh water though so daily water changes are a must.

 

[EightLeggedFrea]

Pyxie frogs are good if you can satisfy their monstrous appetites. I've got a big female that's a breeze to care for. She lives in a 10-gallon aquarium with moist substrate, a spacious water bowl, a heat lamp during the day and a 24-hour meat hat on the opposite side (it's getting cold here, especially at night). I feed her all she will eat once a week, providing a calcium supplement at every other feeding. She goes crazy for nightcrawlers, but also loves Dubia, Discoid, and B. lateralis roaches, superworms, and pinky/fuzzy mice. They'll eat just about anything else of that nature, though.

 

[Arachnophilist]

I would recommend either the Pyxie or the Cane Toad. both are good hardy species although they get quite large.

 

[eelnoob]

Like blazetown said, majority of them are easy. You just have to research on their needs and not skip on things just because they are supposed to be hardy/easy.


Best and easiest frogs I kept are pyxies. They can get very messy but majority of the times they'll relieve themselves in their waterdish so just change that and substrate once in while.

 

[Exo]

my buddy has a white dumpy and hes really cool goes head first for crickets hilarious to watch

Dumpy frogs, or white's treefrog are the best and easiest frog around in my opinion. I have a male that I've had for 14 years, and he's still going strong. They can withstand lower temps and humidity than other treefrogs, and can live for 20 years.

 

[snappleWhiteTea]

The majority of them are fairly easy to take care of. I would say the two easiest frog/toad species are the african clawed frog and firebelly toad. Depends on what you want though. You can go arboreal with an easy and cheap American green tree frog or terrestrial with a pacman. Usually price indicates the level of care as a rule with most frogs and toads. Dart frogs that cost like 50 bucks a pop need tiny food and a fair amount of care. An African clawed frog at 10 bucks a pop can live through almost anything and eats everything. On the other hand an albino pacman may cost you something like 30-40 bucks but is insanely easy to care for as long as you keep things like gravel out of its tank(anything undigestible that can be accidentally eaten can cause intestinal problems).

the only thing I would have to worry about is heat, I have to get herps or inverts that can do well in my hot room, im in arizona w/no ac just a lowzy swamp cooler, and my rooms gets like 93 some times, its insane. i was reading up on some care sheets for pacman (pacmen :?) frogsand they say to keep it under 85.

 

[maitre]

the only thing I would have to worry about is heat, I have to get herps or inverts that can do well in my hot room, im in arizona w/no ac just a lowzy swamp cooler, and my rooms gets like 93 some times, its insane. i was reading up on some care sheets for pacman (pacmen :?) frogsand they say to keep it under 85.

Hey,

if you provide a LARGE waterbowl, this will help tremendously with keeping a frog's temperature down. You can also add a fan to cool things down a bit more. If it gets too hot, though, some frogs like the pixie will aestivate.

 

[snappleWhiteTea]

terrible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKTumh8KiEI

 

[maitre]

Yeah, I'm sick of the bad rep cane toads get. People (Aussies) talk as if it was the cane toad's idea to go to Australia. Well, it isn't. It's people's fault. If anything, they should be playing golf/pelletgunning/pitchforking/freezing/gassing the people who originally shipped them over to that country.

 

[Acro]

If your place gets that hot, go for a cane toad or a cuban tree frog. Both amazing and hardy critters, but please do research, dont rely on just what the boards are telling you. There is much good info on frogs and toads out there.

 

[RoachGirlRen]

If you have a basement, that's actually a really good place to keep many amphibians if the temperature in your house gets too hot. If not, perhaps you can go with a desert toad species that is better adapted to high temperatures. Though, finding some way to cool the individual tank is probably a better idea, because I can't really think of any amphibians, even the colorado river toad sometimes found in your very state, that thrive at consistently high temperatures. One thing folks on the mouse forum I am on do in the summer is put one of those big cooler ice packs on top of the screen. Cold air sinks, the hot air rises, and the tank is cooled by an appreciable margin.

I would also lean away from african clawed frogs. They are definitely tough as nails, but I wouldn't call their care "easy" since maintaining an aquarium properly is certainly more difficult than a bin full of coconut fiber with a water bowl. Which is what most easy frogs and toads demand. They live for a long time, need a large tank at maturity, and need very good water quality to prevent getting diseases. I love my ACFs but they're a royal pain in the butt own.