Green and Gold Bell Frogs

[Somebirdie]

 

[Thugluvgrl187]

They are all so cute!!

 

[Somebirdie]

Thank you

I bought two more today

Going too split them up over the weekend into two enclosures, got all the pretty moss growing for them

My crickets for breeding arrived today. 800 crickets tell you what...That was one hell of a parcel too open!

I would've had an amazing video of them hunting...then I realized I didn't press the button properly they're such energetic frogs!

 

[starreys]

thanks for the link hmm thats pretty noisey i dont think i could handle anything noisier then a cricket

 

[Somebirdie]

I've actually been really enjoying the crickets chirping! But I know they annoy a lot of people.
The sound of frogs makes me really happy. I find it insanely relaxing, just reminds me of so many childhood times


I'm honestly not sure theyre even legal to keep in Victoria?

 

[starreys]

hmm not sure i keep geckos ive never kept frogs and offcourse you know that from APS lol.

 

[TextsFromParrots]

I love frogs!! They're gorgeous!

 

[Somebirdie]

I kept counting them tonight as I was feeding them, and noticed I couldn't see my favourite. But I kept feeding...kept looking and counting....kept moving logs around...hoping MAYBE he buried himself (though unlikely for the species).
The thought of "maybe he got eaten..." Crossed my mind a lot, as this species like all frogs eats whatever fits in its mouth, but it also hunts other frogs in the wild...
Well, as I was continuing counting and feeding, I had to grab one poor bugger out from the throat of another thankfully I was watching, and thankfully I got him out, he was seriously about half a second away from being gone.
He seems okay, I'm worried about internal damage since frogs crush things,

But I've separated them into groups of two now.

Poor little dude that became lunch you can thank the guy I'm holding in my hand for eating him

 

[waterfaller1]

Aww..I am so sorry. Is it possible they need more food, more frequency, more variety of foods,a larger enclosure or are they just opportunistic?

 

[Somebirdie]

Opportunistic I believe, anything that moves at any time is fair gain. I feed them, a lot...twice a day of as many crickets/flies as they can eat each. They have room, but launch themselves around really well.
They've got a pretty well insatiable appetite it seems. The banjo frogs are very "meh" about food (different enclosures) but the bell frogs just slam it down non-stop. There was a slight size difference with two being a tad bigger, ans one in particular seemingly more aggressive, and it just goes to show the difference it can make. So I'm keeping those two together and separated the others more. They have a lot of room so I didn't expect that to happen. I wish he'd just show up but I moved everything and he isn't in there feel so bad for him.
He just grabbed the other one as he hopped past after a cricket.