Potato potato potato potato
This is Potato, my Asian painted frog better known as chubby frogs
Also known as banded bullfrogs, rice frogs and bubble frogs
I've had potato for like five months now. My friend Ethan got him for my birthday and
Last March. Disclaimer don't get people animals for their birthdays unless you know
They're- like have the supplies or actually want the animal that are prepared for it
You don't want to surprise people with an animal that they have to care for but with this exception
He got Potato after my pac man frog Yoshi died
If you didn't know Yoshi, my pac-man frog died a number of months ago
I made a post about it on the community post but I didn't like do a video on it because that's weird
Unfortunately, I got him off of Craigslist
and when I got him
I was supposed to get his sibling
His sibling just randomly died an hour before I picked them up it appeared to be from something like a parasite because it was eating
Completely fine and it was active up until that point and then randomly a few months later
The same thing happened to my pac-man frog Yoshi. You can read about that on the community post
I went more into detail, but aside from that depressing fact
Potato's here. So that's a bit more positive. He's been growing or she, I don't know
It's been growing for quite a while since I first got him
But he is weird about eating because he only eats super worms
You're probably thinking like you just haven't tried enough, but I have tried quite a bit over the past number of months
I've tried mealworms. I've tried dubia roaches, which is what I would like him to be on I've tried night crawlers wax worms
I even tried rodents cuz why not. Little frozen thawed rodents. I tried hornworms butter worms, and I'm pretty sure a couple others
He just only eats super worms is so weird and annoying because I don't like super worms
But I have to keep buying them because he's so picky either way though. He's been healthy on him
I just make sure I dust them with their calcium and multivitamin and everything and
He clearly enjoys them. So it's working. I'll keep trying other stuff and try to get him to switch over
It's weird because these types of frogs like pac-man and chubby frogs and stuff
They just eat anything and then I've got my picky boy on his
superworms (SS: REEE impaction jkjk)
Now I'm kind of making this a first impressions video even though I've had him for a while
But it's cuz I really didn't know what to say about him. Like he's really just this blob of flesh that sits there and
Occasionally eats stuff but I'm gonna go into as much detail as I can about said
Pet rock. So potato is currently in a 10-gallon with eco earth a hide and some fake plants
That's really all he needs and he sits there and he's content with his life
It's very interesting having him compared to a pac-man frog simply because I'd see them less
I've seen them I think at Repticon a few times but nowhere near as commonly
I-commonly- that commonly- but nowhere near as often as pac-man frogs, which are they're like more popular cousin
I guess either way I still love pac-man frogs
But having something that's seen a little bit less often is pretty cool
Yet still just as easy to care for the biggest care difference that I've noticed is their heads are much smaller than pac-man frogs
I just mentioned how pac-man frogs have like this big mouths that they like *awkward hand movements
You know pac-man but chubby frogs because their head is so much smaller than their body
They can't eat as large of the meals so you can have to either feed them more smaller things or to feed them more frequently
it's not like- it's not like it's that hard to do, but it's probably the biggest difference between
Pac-man and chubby other than the fact that they look different
My favorite thing about him is, although you really should not handle animals like this
I've handed him a couple times while my hands are dampened while I have dirt on my hands and
The way he walks is just so weird. He looks like
he's just like been a couch potato all his life and he like tries to get up to go to the bathroom and he's just
Struggling to make it there and he's like looking up at his tree frog cousins. Like I
remember the days when I could climb and I'm just a blob so it's very weird because they
How do I say this without sounding mean?
They seem useless (SS: ... that's mean)
Obviously they are not useless but like just this is the first impressions video okay?
the first impression when you look at this thing is why do you exist?
Also, my other favorite feature about him that I didn't mention is the way he defends himself
with urine
(SS: count how many times it peed and comment)
How can- how can you not enjoy that? How can you enjoy is it bad to enjoy?
Am I the only one that enjoys that? Answer the poll the do you enjoy watching chubby frogs urinate?
I told you before we started this video. I have no idea what to say about. (ss: yet u have 3 things) My third favorite thing about chubby frogs is
The fact that nobody can tell what it is on first glance
Like people have said brownie or like pile of mud or a potato all sorts of things
You just can't tell what it is at first glance
So it's like an alien. I've been talking for 10 minutes about a frog named potato
And I'm really running out of things to say
So my first impressions on them is first of all, would I get one again if I didn't have them and yeah
I mean
I'd still wish I had the pac-man frog because that was
Pretty fun to have and it's- it's a nice animal in my opinion to have it as like an addition to animals you already have
Like I completely see why this would be a great first animal
but personally I like being able to get hands on and
actually watch animals that are more active whether it's a ball python that you can handle or a
Turtle that swims around or something
but it's really nice to have some variety when it's something completely different and
One you can't handle and one that really doesn't want to move. it just sits there
So it really just adds to the differences in the room. So I'm happy to have one
I wouldn't want like a ton of them kind of like how I would love to have like 30 ball pythons
I don't need 30. Oh, that sounds kind of fun. Actually. (ss: are you growing a beard)
I don't know. I have no idea if you can cohab them, but like just imagine like
Like
There's just 30 of them
(ss: or is that a goatee)
Yeah, so if you want something that you can't handle and that you really can't see do anything other than eat
And then it's the animal for you. Maybe that sounds bad. But I'm sure that's appealing to a lot of people
Because like look at all the other weird things people keep as pets so I'm digging it (ss: just like the frog)
What do you think of them? Let me know in the comments section
you can see more pictures and maybe like Instagram stories of it on Instagram at go_herping like if you searched chubby frog
Like every image looks the exact same
They just like look like they want to kill you and just be left alone so they can watch TV in the basement
Okay, bye