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The males are potentially the largest species of frog... Depends on what you're measuring. Frogs are measured lengthwise either from snout to vent (cloaca anyway) or with the legs extended from snout to the outermost toe with the legs stretched behind them... Then there's weight. A full grown male pyxie during the right time of year will outweigh any frog you care to put up against it. Goliath frogs, Chicken frogs, Smokey mountain frogs... all big amphibians, but all lanky and built for speed and distance jumping.
I keep mine (Ethel the frog... Named long before the gender was known and a Python sketch) in a wide, shallow glass enclsoure. It's three and a half feet square at the base and about twenty inches tall. Use pretty much the same substrate that you appear to... Bed a Beast style (got a buddy who gets me the store use massive-packs). Flexwatt underneath the back edge, a small cat litter pan as a water dish.
He gets a decent mix as a diet... full grown madagascar hissers, big rat pups (less hair) and the odd random feeder herp/invert (he'll eat snakes, lizards and other frogs- only given infrequently as parasite free animals that need to be culled due to deformities are avaliable, just about any invert you toss in there or dangle, including crayfish and nightcrawlers).
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