NomNOM the pyxie frog

jaleely · 02-14-12, 09:51 PM

My Pyxie frog...NomNOM!
This thing was a quarter this size when we got it. No idea if it's male or female. I have heard it croak once...and make a mewling sound once *lol*

It went off bugs pretty fast. We've been feeding silver sides. I know that's going to make it grow...but it's sooo happy to eat! It's just about the greediest animal I've seen (though my beagle is tied for that title).

I've been nommed once, got my whole kunckle. Didn't really get any teeth in, but it did bite repeatedly *lol*
It's also got me with the tongue...makes me laugh cuz it's warm and squishy...and so big! i'm going to have to start wearing gloves soon, to clean the tank because it tries to eat me all the time!

**millertime89** · 02-15-12, 01:12 AM

I'm still considering frogs, those guys are pretty cool. Saw some real little ones at the last show I went to.

jaleely · 02-15-12, 02:18 AM

well nom-nom is a doll. Fiesty, crazy for food. I hope he gets bigger than this pic

Pixie Frog - ratboy's anvil 2

we're still looking into proper nutrition for him...seems dubias might actually be best. I can't find if silver sides are sometimes from sat water...and i don't want that to hurt him. Seems unclear if it will or not.

Gungirl · 02-15-12, 06:22 AM

Hahahaha I love the face!

DragonsEye · 02-15-12, 08:53 AM

Fat sucker. heh

jarich · 02-15-12, 08:55 AM

Ya, you dont often hear, "my frog wont eat"! Although now that I mention it I think someone actually did post that lately. I had a leopard frog for year and years that would try stuffing everything in its mouth, and I do mean everything. I had to pull the underwater filter out of his mouth once when I moved it around and he thought it was food.

Nice looking pyxie!

alessia55 · 02-15-12, 08:58 AM

Hahaha its so alien-like!

Kind of cute. Will it get any bigger?

Will0W783 · 02-15-12, 09:48 AM

OMG, NomNOm is soooo cute!!! I love pixie frogs!!!!

Trent · 02-15-12, 09:57 AM

Nice pics!!

jaleely · 02-16-12, 09:23 PM

Alessia it's going to get HUGE! hehehe
I think you should all get one! He's the most active and hilarious frog i've ever seen. A real treat to feed, and to watch try to chase the snakes around from his tank *lol*

It'sKourtneyYo · 02-25-12, 08:50 PM

duude, My boyfriend doesn't want me getting anymkore pets beside a fish tank that I'm getting pretty soon but, seriously, after I the fish tank gets settled I think I'm going to get one!
I have a couple questions though before I do research:
What and how often do you feed him? Would you consider him to have more personality than any other frog? [from my point of view and from what I know and read on your post, yes, yes indeed.lol]
What do you have him housed in and how is he and will he get?

jaleely · 02-25-12, 10:06 PM

I've had a random tadpole, that grew into a random frog of somesort....and it was a HORRIBLE pet...always scared, wouldn't eat right, and one day it choked on a cricket and died! I've always loved frogs, but he was just such an annoying pet *lol* i have no idea what he was. It was some small mom and pop place that i got the huge tadpole from.

Then, i've had pacman frogs. Totally cute frogs...but they just sit there. Totally ambush predators. One of them used to croak when he'd hear Xena on tv (no joke, we were watching all the seasons on dvd and he would croak everytime she would do her yell thing!) They were cute, not very active, but fun to feed.

This guy though...i had looked up pyxie frogs because i wanted a large frog, that would be more interesting than pacmans. Boy did i get what i wanted! Did you see that link i posted somewhere in the middle of this thread? They can get HUGE.
I have read that they are supposed to be insectivores, and eat every day, especially when young. Like i said this guy quickly outgrew crickets and i have been feeding him fish, and an occasional fuzzy. He used to get full on a pinkie, and he could actually easily eat a mouse right now size-wise, though i have been sticking to just a small silverside fish (a day) and an occasional cricket or fuzzy that my snake wouldn't eat.
He will actually eat ANYthing that moves. I pour water in there and he attacks it clumsily. I move the dish and he'll bite the substrate. I reach for him, and oh yes, he WILL bite me. It's hilarious though. I have FELT the teeth, but usually all i really feel is warm sticky MUSH tongue, because he will act classic frog and opens his mouth wide and sticks his tongue out to eat! It's soo cute!
I've been cutting back on food recently, and giving maybe 3 mealworms, then a fish the next day, or skip a day, and then fish.

I've read babies need to eat, but i'm also not sure if the fish is healthy. I've not read where it is bad....so we just make sure to dust some meal items with calcium every now and then.

If you do get one, observe it first. I got this one specifically because i saw how voracious it wanted to eat!

SpOoKy · 02-25-12, 10:28 PM

What are the husbandry requirements for these guys?

jaleely · 02-26-12, 10:13 PM

I don't know if i'm doing it totally right, but he's thriving so far.

You can google a caresheet, but as for my guy i have him a ten gallon tank with a glass lid, that has a hole in the corner....lol so i do have to watch the moisture. They burrow a bit, and poke their faces out. I have a plastic bin on one side with water in it, and a large plastic bin on the other with gravel and fur bark. I had moss, but that got too stinky. I decided on gravel so i could rinse it easier, as he will pee in it. There is a small UTH under the gravel side (on the outside of the glass 10gal tank). He mostly sits in the gravel, but will poop in his water dish. I give him fresh water every day...he will also sometimes pee in there. I rinse the gravel once a week...though i may start doing it more often now that he's bigger as i suspect he's peeing in it more.

Other than that, feeding once a day, and i try to handle him when i clean the tank...i do get Nommed sometimes...but once i establish that it's not feeding time he seems to like having his head stroked. I find it's better to feed first, then move him around. A full belly means a little bit slower frog who's not AS greedy...but still very greedy *lol*

It'sKourtneyYo · 02-27-12, 12:53 AM

Holy frog! He gets huge!!! I love it! But I thing my bigger lab would think its a chew toy and that's kind of took big for me but very cool. I had a dumpy frog before named Figaro
He was so awesome. He liked to chill on my shoulder a lot. Whenever I too him out he would always climb onto my shoulder and just chill there. Im still thinking about the frog thing. Its out of some type of frog, leopard gecko or fish tank and I can only pick one for now.