My only losses have been escapees, (and one injury), so look around the room you have them in first. Even large frogs can escape in the most ingenious manner. The thumbnails are absolute masters of suicide by dehydration. If a fruit fly can get out, so can they. On the other hand, more shy individuals can and do hide efficiently. I have a blue D. auratus I named "Larry" after one of Garrison Keelor's skits on his brother who had lived in the basement for 15 years, that I've only seen six times in four years, mostly when I moved the frogs from their nursery, to a ten gallon and then to a 30 and had to dig Larry out of the substrate. In the meantime, I ceased to care a lot about Larry. I saw him yesterday in one of their upgraded tanks, hopping around and chasing flies like a normal frog. I said, "Hello, Larry, you look normal," and he vanished. I don't know how this frog has survived. In the past three years, he has obviously eaten, and isn't scrawney. He may need a frog psychiatrist. You do get overly shy indiviuals who can hide.
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Patty

Pahsimeroi, Idaho



4 D. auratus blue

5 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back

5 D. imitator

6 D. leucomelas

4 D. pumilio Bastimentos

4 D. fantasticus

4 P. terribilis

4 D. reticulatus

4 D. castaneoticus

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