Welcome to Our Frogs Page.
Frogs are by far our favorite Herp.
Our main interests are in the Leaf Frogs and the Poison Frogs.
We have been keeping frogs for well over six years now, it all started with one Fire Bellied Toad (Bombina orientalis). Olga thought that it would look cool in a terrarium in our orchid room, well it did, and before we knew it we had five of them and a small colony of Green Tree Frogs (Hyla cineraria) also. Our collection has grown since but we both still love our original group of Fire Bellied Toads.
Below are pictures of some of our different frogs, before that, there are two links which take you directly to the Poison Frog page or the Leaf Frog page.
Our group of Fire Bellied Toads in their water section, these are the first three amphibians that we kept as adults.
One of our Green tree frog males. These are really cute little frogs which are fairly easy to keep, except that they can be quite noisy. Most wild caught individuals are found based on call, so for many of these frogs you will find a large imbalance between the numbers of males and females represented in stores, and by suppliers. Green Tree Frogs have a very loud call, and they can sometimes sing year-round.
These are our group of White's Tree Frogs (Litoria caerulea) and White-Lipped Tree Frogs (Litoria infrafrenata). Although it may not be obvious in this picture, the Whites are blue phase. Blue animals can arise spontaneously in a population through a mutation which eliminates yellow pigment in the skin (blue and yellow makes green - remember). Unfortunately, most of the really good blue mutants are due to non heritable mutations (I am sure that many of you have seen pictures of the perfect blue coloured Green Tree Frog. After many crosses and the production of an F2 generation, that wonderful blue colouration has yet to reappear). In the White's Tree Frog, there are lines of frogs which have blue colouration, although it is not quite as distinct as some of the other mutations, these animals are a very nice blue colour.
Below is a picture of a normal coloured Whites Tree Frog, this is a wild caught female. And below that is a picture of our Blue Phase White's Tree Frogs, these are captive bread individuals which we have raised since they were 2cm in length.
