Look at my handsome guys!!!

[froggsong]

I just feel like showing off so everyone can tell me how beautiful my froggies are!

Joe is the banana frog, I think he is a Polypedates leucomystax, also called a golden tree frog.

The firebelly toad is Starvin' Marvin (lol). He used to eat like a PIG when I first got him... His name was Herman to begin with, but one of the squirrel three frogs inherited the name instead.

I'm pretty sure the other guys are squirrel tree frogs, Hyla squirrella, though I used to think they were barking tree frogs, Hyla gratiosa (due to a probably mislabeled picture). They are native to where I am from, SC, and I did have three of them, but one died recently (I think she was pretty old... The others were still very small when I caught them, but she was very big, and I've had them for four or five years... I mis her, she was all fat and cool ) The one that died was named Sleepy, the others are Herman and Brick (so named because I found him in, you guessed it, a brick!). Herman and brick are generally very hard to tell apart these days... Brick used to be bigger than Herman, but now they are the same size...

This is my favorite pic of Joe (I think maybe it should be Joeline though... He never makes any noise... Doesn't that generally indicate they are female?)


He used to be so fat!


These next ones are either Herman or Brick:







I think this one is Sleepy, it's hard to tell because you can't see the whole body:


In this one, do you see the FBT?

How'd he get up there!?!

They love each other, lol... They almost always sleep this way, even if I have a ton of hides in the tank...:


Here's Marvin lookin' all stunning!



Here he is being so lazy! lol, he slept like that for like an hour, maybe it was comfy!


Aren't they great? These were my first herps, other than overnight frogs and toads when I was little.

I'm really not happy with them in that small tank, especially Joe, since he's so big, but I should be done with the new one sometime next week!

[alex1976]

Nice lookin frogs ya got!

[froggsong]

Originally Posted by alex1976

Nice lookin frogs ya got!

Thank you!

[knighty]

nice frogs.

not too sure that about the mixing though. FBT are pretty deadly to other frogs/toads......

[froggsong]

He's been in there for... 2 1/2 years or so. Never had a problem except when my hubby brought home a baby CWD and I had no where to put him except in the big tank I had the frogs and the anole in... He did fine for a couple of weeks, but I think sharing the water with the toad made him sick... I got a new tank for the FBT as soon as I could, but the poor little guy didn't make it... I felt sooo bad. My husband didn't know any better about mixing them, and I thought it would be ok for a little bit, since I've always kept a mixed tank, but it wasn't. The FBT was a birthday present for my 21st, and I didn't have any other tank to put him in except for with the frogs and the anole, and I wasn't working and couldn't afford one, so he had to go in with them. There haven't ever been any problems, and as you can see, they even sleep on him. I keep a close eye to see if anyone is getting sick, and no one ever has. The frog, Sleepy, that died wasn't sick before she died, I just found her one morning dead when I checked on everyone. I'm positive it was old age that took her. I do appreciate your concern, and I realize that it is a "better safe than sorry" approach that most people take, but as these guy have been together for so long, I really don't believe it is a problem. That said, I am going to attempt to separate them again after I build my new CWD habitat and have the 36"x18"x17" tank free again. The only reason I am going to do this is that I want to get at least one more FBT. In the past, when I have separated them, the FBT gets lonely and the frogs don't seem as happy. So, I'll have to see how they do before I get a new toad. I'd rather not stick another one in there... Who knows, maybe mine isn't as toxic as the rest... (I doubt it though... I sure did feel the effects that time I was crying because their tank fell off a shelf, broke, and I couldn't find everyone and didn't have time to catch the cat! I wiped my eyes because I couldn't see to catch them after I had just caught the FBT... OMG that was awful!)