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Hello, I really love frogs. I used to catch them in my lake in Quebec all the time. Once I had caught a leopard frog (think that's what they are called) and reproduced it's habitat in a 20 gallon aquarium I used to have outside. I even had water insects, live plants, and tiny minnows in there! It had dry land too and plenty of spots to hide. Once Fall came around though I released it back into the lake so it could hibernate. I did a pretty good job at it, the frog was healthy and ate the bugs and worms I fed it greedily

Anyways to get to the point, I'm not a preteen kid catching frogs anymore and thought I should give a try at having some in my apartment.

What do you people suggest would be the best beginner frog and the lowest maintenence. I sometimes have to leave for a weekend or a little longer, which is what was mainly keeping me from getting some. I'm a student on a budget so I would also need a relatively small aquarium to start with (no worries though I will set aside a budget just for my little froggy) any help would be very welcome

Hello there are a few different frogs you could look into getting. The one I would say would be the best for you is a horned frog also named pacman frog. They don’t need much space, a 10 gallon is perfect, and you can leave them for a few days as long as they have water or at least moisture/ a damp cage.

Another frog you could look at is the whites tree frog , its also extremely popular is easy to care for but needs a little bit bigger tank a 15 to 20g tall is perfect. They need more heat though and moisture but that not really a problem especially if you use some thing like a exo terra terrarium and put live planets in.

Last but not least there are fire bellied toads they are much more like the leopard frog that you kept in that they require both a land area and a water area, you can also easily keep more then one together. They eat crickets or other small insects and can leave in a 10g tank.

I have had all of these frogs and they all make great and very interesting pets

there are manygood beginer frogs, the two i started off with were fire belly toads and then a whties tree frog. fire bellies are lower maintnence, but personally i like the [bleep]es better. they have a nice sounding croak and are very personalible. they eat 3-4 times a week 3-5 crix each time. dust every other feeding. 20 gallon minimum with a hot spot around 90F and don't let it drop below 70F. lots of plants and places to hide. e-mail if you have questions. here are pics of my 2 whites.

Are your whites handleable? Do you handle any of your frogs?

yes, i handle my two whites. one is full grown and the other is about 1.5 in now. i hold the baby daily. i take him out and out him on my hand and feed one or two crix. this way he sees me as a good thing and if i see anything the matter with him it wouln't be a problem to hold him and check it out. i also have fire bally toads, american toads, pumilio dart frog..i don't hold any of those, sometimes the fire bellies.