Hey guys, so in today's video we're gonna feature one of our frogs that we have
here at the store, it's called the Tomato Frog. Now you can see why just by looking
at this little guy, why they are called the Tomato Frog, their skin looks like
that of a tomato. They can be a nice bright red color, they can also kind of,
be of a kind of like more of orangish-yellow color, kind of like an
unripened tomato. So these guys, they usually get about 3 to 5 inches long and
so it's not, it doesn't get extremely big like a Pixie Frog, but it's also not too
small, so it's pretty good size. So these guys, their natural habitat is Madagascar
actually, so. It's pretty awesome. Now these guys are pretty easy to keep, for a
baby just need about a 10 gallon tank and for the, once they get bigger and get
more the adult size, that's when you'll have to go up to a 20 long tank,
which is a 30 x 12 x 12 tank here. Now as far as housing multiple frogs
together, these guys can be cannibalistic so you just want to make sure that
they're not like 2 different sizes, like big difference in size, because if one is
really big and one's really small it might try to eat the other one, so if you
keep up 2 together you'll want them to both be the same size. So as far as their
bedding goes they need something that holds humidity well since they need a
pretty humid environment. So you can use coco fiber, peat moss, we have tropical
mix here you can use, we also have Reptisoil here that's can also work for frogs
really good. Now one cool thing about these guys is
since they only need a temperature about 75 to 80 degrees, you can usually keep
them at room temperature so you don't really need a heat bulb at all. One thing
you could do is if you want to be able to see the frog in the tank like during
the daytime, you can get like a low output UVB bulb, and that would light up
the tank really well and it would also help if there was live plants in the
tank, that way that they can grow really nice, so yep. That's one reason way to get
a light for them. Because these guys do need to soak in water and everything you
will need a large water bowl so they can sit in it and soak whenever they want to,
or if you have a semi aquatic tank with a land portion and a water portion that's,
that's good too, just don't make the water too deep because these guys aren't
big swimmers, so. And make sure whatever water you give them a soak in that you
treat it with dechlorinating, dechlorinated tap water, the chlorine and
stuff isn't good for their skin at all, so you just want to get some
dechlorinator for your water. Now these guys have like the easiest care in
the world, basically every day you just got to give them, clean out their water
dish, give them fresh water, scoop up poop and that's it basically except on the
days when you feed them. We feed them about two to three times a week, we don't
feed them that much, usually give them like four crickets
each every time we feed them, so. And the size of the cricket will vary from baby
to adult, so. And you just make sure that you dust the cricket, dust the crickets
or whatever bug you give them with calcium that way they get that, and we
also dust with vitamins once a week, so. So one thing about these guys and all
frogs in general is that you don't want to handle them too much without anything
covering your hands. When they come into contact with your hands, they also come
into contact with everything on your hands like oils, chemicals, all sorts of
stuff, and they absorb that into their skin and it can actually kill them, so.
You want to keep handling against bare skin to a minimum.
If you have to use gloves or just something to keep them away from all
that. Yeah these guys make pretty great pets, they're really colorful, really cool
to watch and we actually have a couple here at Tye-Dyed Iguana,
so. Come on by and see them.