#floating frog

Green Puddle Frog aka Rough-skinned Floating Frog (Occidozyga lima), family Dicroglossidae, found in South and SE Asia

Occidozyga lima is a species, or species complex, of small anuran that has a wide distribution in Asia. It is traded under a number of names, but species of this genus are perhaps best known as the rice paddy, puddle, and floating frogs. A small frog, O. lima grows to a mere 4 centimeters, or somewhere between 1 and 1 and a 1/2 inches, and the females are slightly larger than the males. They inhabits pond and marshlands, profiting from the seasonal inundation of grasslands in nature, and from wet rice farmers creating anthropogenic paddy environments, for their domesticated rice, which is a species of grass that grows in water. Like grazing pastures and cornfields, rice paddies are a form of man-made grassland, to which local wild animals have adapted.

This is an easy frog to care for, in an aquarium with a low water level. Because the frogs are of course sir breathers, and have the particular habit, of floating at the water surface. Some floating vegetation should be provided for these anurans, as open spaces of water stress them. Naturally, the water surface should be still, he cause these frogs are averse to living on bodies of flowing water. Needless to say, the aquarium lid must be secure, lest these frogs hop or climb out. They are willing to consume non-living prey, but only if it floats and moves on the water surface, and it must be based on arthropod protein. Some people have trained their O. lima to feed from small forceps, while others have noted these frogs can dive for food. In the wild, these frogs both consume insects at the water surface, and make temporary dives for prey.

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