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I read that these frogs are most beautiful, small, need very little space, easy to care for, and are easy to breed with just a few bowls of water. Am I just dreaming? Does anyone conquer with what I read, have a picture, and have some for sale? thank you.

your advice is wrong, wrong and wrong. not much else to say really. if they were easy to keep and breed there would be alot more of them available and there would be books/websites about them. the only reason they are in the pet trade is because they are logging african forests since everyone is concentrating on saving the amazon. the logging roads make it easier to find animals for the pet trade.
this doesn't even take into account the over 400 species of reed frogs that we know about. they change color from baby to adult, male/female do not look alike. good luck identifying what reed frog is what.
yes they are small but that doesn't mean they should have a smaller tank. mine have never bred after 6 or 7 years. of course I don't know if I have any females either. no idea how to sex them but I know they are afrixalus fornasini.

Imagine that! I can't even trust the published books on what info is acurate ! I'm glad I knew better and decided to follow up with you guys! Do you recommend a reputable source for info to understand correctly so I can make the right decisions for our keeping of frogs and most importantly to not haphazardly kill a precious jewel of the forest? Thank you so much!

what book? alot would depend on the species. I don't know enough about them. the best book that I know of is treefrogs of africa. zoobooksales.com has it. some german guy wrote it. arne schiotz. they know what they are talking about. but it doesn't have alot of care info in it. don't know about any of those.

The Amazon isn't in Africa....