My Lovely African Dwarf Frogs – I have several African dwarf frogs {Hymenochirus boettgeri}.
These make great pets for the beginner. They are as complicated to deal with as goldfish! Granted, you can’t feed them fishflakes (they only eat food that sinks to the bottom of the tank!), but you don’t have to feed them live icky bugs either! joker388
The picture on the left is a shot of a dwarf frog that I found floating around on Usenet groups…I’ve since seen it in several pet care books.
The shot on the right is a shot of Elwood II. My first dwarf frogs were named Jake and Elwood, after the Blues Brothers. (It’s a long story…lets just say I had been watching that movie a lot that summer) I had them for about 5 years. Unfortunately they passed away in a pH disaster in their aquarium several years ago.
I mourned for a week or so, then returned to the pet store to get new frogs. I guess I wasn’t feeling very creative when I named the 2 new guys, hence Jake and Elwood the second appeared on the scene. In addition, more dwarf frogs have been added to the family.…