A few Pixie Frog Questions...

[Joe M]

At the Hamburg PA reptile show yesterday I got a great deal on 5 juvi pixie frogs. Not dwarfs, but the big Pyxicephalus Adspersus. I have gotten mixed information online in terms of having multiple frogs sharing the same enclosure. They are all about 2 inches from nose to vent, and I was going to set them all up in something like a 75 for now with the standard pixie/pacman stuff (eco-earth, big water dish, few hiding spots, ect.) and I have no idea how this will work with multiple frogs.

They are all nearly identical in size, so I don't see an issue now, but was wondering what everyone thought. A 75 should provide ample space for the 5 of them for now and the near future, but how do you think they will get along?

I'm sitting in my hotel in Hamburg right now, and just started thinking about if I would need to worry about hostility towards each other.

Thanks.

 

[Sylvias]

I don't know much about frogs in general but from the limited experience I have with these guys I would say that if anyone one of them got just the slightest size advantage on another that smaller one will disappear....

 

[brooklynboy521]

These guys are basically garbage disposals and will eat anything that will it in their mouth. i would keep them separately just to avoid any accidents.

 

[reptileguy2727]

I would keep them separate.

IMO Eco-Earth is a no-no with frogs like pacmans. It dries out quickly and is not as clean. I always kept mine on very wet paper towels. They show how dirty it is and when you see how yellow they get in only a couple days and think that is what you let them sit in for a month with Eco-Earth you will be glad you made the switch.

I just kept them in Kritter Keepers with paper towels with enough water to see it collect at one end when you tilted the container.

 

[benzjamin13]

I'd be worry about cannibalism. I use Eco-Earth when it's hibernation time. It give him something to bury himself in to keep him warm during the winter months. I have a water dish in there to keep the humidity up so it doesn't completely dry out. When he's up, I just have a water dish for him to sit in. No substrate while he's up.

 

[Vicious_Fish]

I was at the show yesterday and briefly talked to that vendor with the pyxie's. You must have bought most of them because he only had one left when I got there.

I agree, keep them separate. I have a female who is missing a few toes on her one front foot and I think it's because she was kept with others when I bought her and one of them must have bit some toes off while going after food.

 

[Joe M]

Alright thanks for the info everyone. I'm going to pick up some kritter keepers or something to keep them in, and I'll probably go with paper towels instead of eco-earth. How are you guys heating them in the kritter keepers?

And Vicious_Fish, I think I know who you were talking too. Was he just to the left of the food area and a few tables down the aisle and he was selling a ton of terrariums? I actually got mine from a woman in the back right corner that had a ton of turtles as well. They had them for a good portion of the show, and I kept going back and looking at them. She finally offered me a deal, so I took the 5 decent sized ones that she had left.