Amphibians can be very interesting to keep as pets, but it might be difficult to provide the right environment for them. It is very important that you find out exactly what your pet has to eat, and how the setup should be arranged. Temperature and humidity is also very important. Frogs, toads and newts from colder areas should not be kept as pets indoors. They are better left outside in a pond or similar. Amphibians are usually very healthy pets, but they can die for no apparent reason. If you bought the pet as an adult, it might have been captured in the wild, and the age is un-known.

Toads are easier to keep than frogs, because they are not as wet or slippery when handled. This doesn't mean they don't need proper humidity, it's just easier to hold them. There is such a large variety of frogs and toads, that some looks more like one, even if it belongs to the other. The look has more to do with the environment, than anything else.

Some frogs and toads are very small and others are extremely large. One of the biggest is the Pixie-frog, or African bull-frog. It feeds on live prey, like mice or baby rats. It looks like a big blob that can't move very well, but when it spots something moving, when it's hungry, it strikes, and strikes fast. It can even jump pretty high, so make sure you don't put the food in a transparent container on top of its enclosure.