Frogs House

The Asian Painted Frogs is also known as the Chubby Frogs, the Banded Bull Frog, the Rice Frogs, or the Bubble Frogs. These Frogs have round bodies with mahogany brown backs and cream stomachs. The distinctive stripes down the side can range from copper-brown to salmon pink in color. Males have darker throats than females. Frogs grow to 7-8 cm with females generally being larger than males.

This Frogs is native of South East Asia, and usually lives on the forest floor, in rice fields, and even in populated villages. These Frogs are voracious eaters, and will eat flies, crickets, moths, grasshoppers, earthworms and more. Chubby Frogs hide under leaf litter during the day hours and eat in the evening.

Chubby Frogs kept in captivity need planted aquariums with plenty of hiding spaces. Since the Chubby Frogs is a terrestrial Frogs, substrate choices should consist of peat/soil mixes or potting soil topped of with sphagnum moss. A water bowl should be included as a water source. Also, the humidity should be kept high by misting the tank a couple times a day with dechlorinated water. Chubby Frogs prefer temperatures of 80 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Temperatures may reach 65 degrees at night.

The Banded BullFrog is a highly adaptable species able to survive in disturbed habitats including flooded grassland, roadside puddles and urban storm drains. By day it hides in holes in the ground, under leaf litter or in the crevices of walls or buildings.

The species is easily identified by the thick, black-edged, light brown to orange band which extends from the head along each side of the body. The upperside is dark to medium brown and the underside pale.

The mouth is wide, the head short and blunt and the eyes of moderate size. Generally chubby in form, it will inflate itself when feeling threatened.

Its call is a loud, cattle-like bellow, which can be heard after heavy rain has created flooded pools in which the Frogs assemble.

Chubby Frogs have the ability to expand themselves when threatened, and to secrete toxic glue-like substances from their bodies as a defense mechanism. They are also able to survive dry conditions by burying themselves in the ground and waiting for rain.

Chubby Frogs as pets Chubby Frogs are now commonly sold in pet stores. Those considering chubby Frogs ownership should be aware that like most amphibians, Chubby Frogs cannot tolerate the chlorine found in standard city water. Pets must therefore be provided with treated or spring water. Also, Frogs owners need to consider that Chubby Frogs can be fairly uninteresting as it is quite an inanimate Frogs.

The Banded BullFrog ranges from parts of southern India and Sri Lanka through Burma, Thailand and parts of southern China and Indochina to Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi and Flores. In Singapore it is considered a highly successful introduced species.

Many of the mangrove reptiles are aquatic and live wholly in saline waters. Amphibians on the whole are intolerant of saline conditions, but the Crab-eating frog is among the very few exceptions.

It is found in the brackish-water of mangrove streams and also in adjacent damp, grassy areas. The adults are large enough to be of some culinary value, and the newly-metamorphosed froglets are commercially raised for sale as live food for predatory pet fish.

The Crab-eating frog (Fejervarya cancrivora formerly Rana cancrivora), is a frog native to south-eastern Asia including the Philippines and more rarely as far west as Orissa in India6. It inhabits mangrove swamps and marshes and is the only known modern amphibian which can tolerate salt water. It is locally favored for its eating quality and is often farmed for its edible legs. Call described as …dododododok …dododok.

This frog can tolerate marine environments (immersion in sea water for brief periods or brackish water for extended periods) by increasing urea production and retention, and also by remaining slightly hyperosmotic within urea and sodium flux3,4,5.

1. A study has been made of kidney function in the Crab-eating frog, Rana cancrivora, of south-east Asia.

2. This frog can live in full-strength sea water; in such concentrated media its blood is slightly hypertonic to the medium, and a considerable part of the osmotic concentration is due to urea.

3. In concentrated media the excretion of urea is greatly diminished. This is not due to active tubular reabsorption of urea, but primarily to a low urine flow caused by increased tubular reabsorption of water and reduced glomerular filtration.

4. In concentrated media, as compared with dilute media, only a few percent of the filtered urea appears in the urine.

5. Osmoregulation of the Crab-eating frog in sea water resembles that of elasmobranchs except in that there is no evidence of active tubular reabsorption of urea in the frog.

In the Crab-eating frog Rana cancrivora, taken from a full-strength seawater pond, the in situ levels of serum Na, Cl, K, Ca, Mg, Pi, urea, and osmolarity were examined. The levels were higher than those usually reported for freshwater anurans. However, values for the monovalent salts, urea, and osmolarity were lower than those reported by Gordon et al. (1961, J. Exp. Biol. 38, 659-678) following immersion of this species in 80% seawater for 7 days. The histological features of the ultimobranchial gland and parathyroid gland were coincident with those known in usual freshwater frogs, in spite of the peculiarity of the habitat of this species. The ultimobranchial gland was composed of a single follicle or multiple follicles. In most parenchymal cells, immunoreactive calcitonin was detected using the PAP method with anti-salmon calcitonin antiserum. In the parathyroid gland, cells in the central part of the gland were smaller than those in the peripheral part.