Leptopelis vermiculatus (Big Eyed Frog)

[Astra]

I have a friend that runs a small pet store and he was recently sold four of these guys. I saw them and fell in love instantly. He told me that there were two pairs and that the females look completely different from the males. I thought that was pretty frickin' cool until I got home and looked them up. I can't find anything that says anything about sexual dimorphism in this species. Was my friend had?

The two "males" are definetly L. vermiculatus, the females, however, somewhat resemble a White's Tree Frog only with fairly large reddish eyes.

They are gorgeous little guys and I will at least be purchasing the "males." If anyone has any care info on them, or knows of a site with a decent care sheet, that would be very helpful.

[Rainfrog]

Do the "females" Have colors on thier sides? Could they be Red Eyed Tree frogs?

[Dmac]

i think Leptopelis vermiculatus is actually a peacock tree frog.

[Volksdragon]

Leptopelis vermiculatus is the Big-eyed Tree Frog, but I can't find anything saying the males have a drastically different appearance than the females.

[Selllena]

Ok, I have bought 2 Leptopelises. They didn’t tell me about the species, but I think that I have Flavomaculatus. They are in fact very similar to Vermiculatus when they are adult. I fell in love with all leptopelises. I just adore their huge eyes, they are very calm and easy to manipulate, they are not very little and not big, they eat very funny, slowly and eat from tweezers easily. Take attention – my little leptopelis that I though to be a male have grown and became a fat female, bigger then my second one and she can not stop eating, she has lost her charm becoming fat. I must put her on a diet. So, I have 2 females instead of a couple and try to find a male for them. I tried to find information about different species and differences between females and males. What I have found about Vermiculatus: males are a little less big then females, they have got pectoral glands. Often males keep some green colour when almost all the females are brown or beige. In fact, I think that you know that they have several fases:1-little are green with vermiculations and white marble sides and legs,2 – they change color and become green-beige with different percentage and adults are often beige or brown with a darker triangle that points towards their heads. So, males often don’t have triangle they often look like 1st or 2d fase.
In fact, I have found a beautiful site. AmphibiaWeb - Arthroleptidae It is a huge database about all the amphibians with great photos.
About keeping Leptopelises: almost all Leptopelises require temperature 24-26 during the day with a drop at night to 20-22. Ones that come from Savannas need humidity 40-80 %, ones from forests – 60-90%. It’s logical. They need a lot of plants. Mine do not hide a lot. One of them is always visible; another one is always in a pot with flowers half digged. But they are always in the same favourite place that they have chosen. They sleep during the day, but come out and open wide their marvellous eyes at night. They are always first in a feeding plate and eat everything so I never put a plate now; I put crickets just in terrarium so all the frogs can eat equally.

[knighty]

pics

[Selllena]

Knighty, I'm not so strong in English and its slang...and I'm curious what PICS means ...

[Green Ghost]

Selllena "pics" is short for "pictures" and what he means by that is please post pics so all of us can see what the frogs look like because we're curious. (well the last part is my interpretation of it)

[knighty]

sorry, from your other post would not of known.... i live in england and mine can be pretty bad lol... were are you from...?

green ghost is correct in his interpretation :-)

[Selllena]

I'm from Ukraine, but I live in France - have my family here.
Ok, catch pics .
I put my pictures on a ukrainian forum...Tekst is in Russian but you can see all my photos. You can enlarge them.
Here is a little leptopelis flavomaculatus(I think that it is flavomaculatus but it can be vermiculatus ).
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Here you also can see leptopelises and my other frogs.
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Here, how I made my terrarium.
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And my last photos of my frogs.
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On a second photo you can see what has grown from my little leptopelis from a first link . A fat female ...I had a hope that it will be HE ...Now I have bought the third leptopelis with the same hope...

PS: it's easy to recognize leptopelises on the photos - they have big heads and eyes. Racoforuses that I have are more slim and their faces are pointed. Litorias are easy to recognize too, I think.