Care of amphibians Frogs are popular pets and display animals.
The Australian Museum keeps a number of species of Australian
frogs. Authority to keep Australian amphibians in captivity The
Australian Museum is a licensed exhibitor of vertebrate animals.
The keeping of amphibians privately as pets is regulated by
state and territory agencies and it is illegal to take any
protected species from the wild without a permit from an
authority. please see the Resources for keeping live animals
page and follow the links to your relevant authority. Research
into the natural history of the frog species is first conducted
to make sure that the housing is appropriate and allows the
animals to live long healthy lives. Frogs species differ in
their need to swim once they have metamorphosed from the tadpole
stage into adult frogs, so the housing of frogs does not always
require large water areas. Green Tree Frogs and Striped Marsh
Frogs do not swim often; Green Tree Frogs will sometimes sit in
water, but otherwise acquire mo