Appearence
Bombinadae, belongs to the family Discoglossidae, the disctonguefrogs.
The family Bombina has only one familiar species; Bombina Orientalis.
This is the well known korean fire-belly toad, the green-black toad, with its orange-black belly.
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Colorvariation
The family Bombina consist of only one species:
Bombina Orientalis
Common information
No Cites requierd.
This is the perfect beginners-toad,
This species is easy to keep,
they are active,
and reproduce relatively easy.
The orange color can switch to yellow when they are not from the wild,
and reproduced for generations in keptivity, the black color can likewise switch to brown.
These animals come from: Korea, China, and East-Russia.
Cage demands
These frogs can survive under almost any curcomstancions,
but the following conditions are perfect:
A palludaria which is at least 40x40 cm or 16x16 inches for two frogs.
A water side that is often changed and cleaned
When you put soil on the floor, it probably won't harm your frogs, but it will make the water extremely fast a mud pool.
So flag stones with PUR mouse between it is way better and far more hygenic, germs and deseases come ore often out of soil.
Tempeture: 20-30 celcius or 68-86 farhenheit and 20 celcius or 68 farhenheit at night is the best.
RV: should be something like 70%.
Feeding
All kinds of insects,
Crickets, small grashoppers, and wurms are also good.
Difference in gender
The males are slightly smaller,
And they have mating pillows on the front pair of legs.
Mating and reproduction
After a wintersleep at 10 celcius or 50 farhenheit.
will the males mate with anything that is the size of a female.
So in mating sesion remove any other kinds of frogs when combined because the males will drown your other frogs.
After a succesful mating,
will the females lay about 75 eggs in the water part, ecspecially when it has been changed recentely.
Feed the small frogs the same as the adults only a smaller pieces.
Expierience
Bombina Orientalis.
This is a fun frog to keep, it is active will not hide as much as other frogs.
And they are at least just as interresting as a reptile, personaly i think frogs are more fun.
More information:
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Zoo database
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