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i just bought a large jungle frog! he is great! does anyone have a ny good care info i might not know?

pretty much every specimen in captivity now is wild caught or farm raised and is guareented to have internal parasites. i lost the first two i had very quickly, before i was finished with treatment. if is best to treat them, even if they are not showing any signs of problems. you can use store products like tetracycline, or consult an exotics vet. once mine started showing lesions, i got gentamicin for them, which is a very powerful perscription antibiotic, and it still wasn't enough. they are beautiful frogs and need a lot of room, minimum of a 75 gal for two adults. supply a deep and large water bowl and change water daily. adults can easily eat 12 large crickets a day, but they also love f/t mice, nightcrawlers, hornworms and the occasional goldfish. they are primarily nocturnal, so provide good hiding spots with rock or wood caves, live plants, and moss. they alos like to burrow, so 3-8" of soil substrate is a good idea. keep the tank warm and humid and the soil moist, they don't like getting dry.

i got mine cb he is about 4 inches nose to rear.

where did you get one CB from?
they do pop-up from time to time but are not very common

i got him at a reptile expo by some purly frog breeders. they told me his parents where wc but just to start the breeding of many more!

yea, i looked it up on the internet, he does look alot like a dwarf. contact the pet store you got him from and ask to see if they know for sure. sorry

where are these "farms"? are u talking about pet breeders or frog-leg farms?

when i say farms, i am refering to both breeders for the pet trade and for food, as many of the places that catch frogs for food also sell to the pet industry.. The vast majority of leptodactylus species are wild caught imports or are imported from breeding facilities in south america that have wild caught adults or wild caught eggs and tadpoles. they then raise them till they are of adequate size to be shipped out for sale. over the past 5 years frogs from this genus have become more popular in the pet trade in the US and some people have begun to do small, private breeding programs, but these frogs are not common in the pet trade and generaly are sold for double the price of wild caught specimens.