![]() A terrarium will work if you can maintain high humidity. They can live in a 20-gallon aquarium with warm temperatures and extremely high humidity. Once or twice a week they can be social and may enjoy being held. They are generally inactive creatures and will spend their time sitting in a corner of the tank. When kept as a pet they live best as the only frog in a tank. On occasion they will eat plant material. They are mostly carnivorous with a diet consisting of mostly mice and other small animals such as lizards and baby snakes. These large frogs are known by herpetologists for eating just about anything. Females are much smaller and weigh around one pound. Pixie Frogs are one of the largest amphibians in the world and males can grow to over two pounds in size. The father frog is very involved in protecting the young tadpoles. ![]() They do not have an annual breeding season and are unique for their reproductive routine. It is only during periods of heavy rainfall they will mate. torpor) for most of the year and only come to the surface during periods of heavy rainfall. They remain in a state of reduced activity ( i.e. This is because of the heat in their natural habitat. Pixie Frogs spend most of their time burrowed underground in a cocoon made out of layers of their own skin. The climate in this area is very arid with some subtropical grasslands. ![]() They live anywhere from Gauteng in South Africa all the way north into Angola and Kenya. Pixie Frogs are large olive-green frogs that can be found throughout southern Africa.
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