Oriental Fire-Bellied Toads Feeding Time (Bombina orientalis)

Описание: Short feeding video of my Oriental fire-bellied toads, Bombina orientalis. I mainly feed earthworms and crickets, but also isopods and other small invertebrates.

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General Information on Fire-Bellied Toads:

"The Oriental fire-bellied toad (Bombina orientalis) is a small (4 cm, 2") semiaquatic frog species found in Korea, northeastern China, and adjacent parts of Russia. An introduced population exists near Beijing. They are commonly kept as pets in land and water vivaria. B. orientalis is also known as the 'tuti toad'.
It may properly be referred to as a frog, despite its common name, because of the tubercles on its back.

Like other Bombina species, B. orientalis is semiaquatic, inhabiting warm, humid forested regions. It spends most of its time on land.

Breeding takes place in the spring with the warming of the weather and increase in rain. Males call to the females with a light barking croak. They jump onto the back of any other fire-bellied toad that happens to pass by, often leading to male-male confusion, but rarely any sort of fighting. Females lay 40 to 100 eggs in a large cluster, usually around submerged plants, near the water's edge. Tadpoles hatch from the eggs in three to 10 days depending on the temperature of the water. The tadpoles begin to develop legs in 6–8 weeks, and are fully metamorphosed and begin venturing on land in 12–14 weeks."

Site "Oriental fire-bellied toad". (2015, March 24). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11:06, June 20, 2015, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...


Filmed with an Olympus TG-2 Tough Edition
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