Mr. Pickles is a Pixie frog owned by someone who goes by “Dr.Matt” on frogforums. He also unfortunately has a youtube channel with 22k subscribers.
He hasnt been active there for quite some time on the platform but as you can see in his post history he is advocating for not giving your frog water because the “daily clean up is a pain”, as well as some where he is asking for advice because his frog is sick. Presumably from his shitty husbandry.
On top of not giving Mr. Pickles the water dish, he soaks the soil to the point bacteria and mold will thrive and can tox out the frog. Not to mention in this video he feeds a dead wild bird that ran into his window (WHICH IS A BAD IDEA ON SO MANY FRONTS) to Mr. Pickles, and gives you a peek into the INHUMANELY small enclosure for an adult male pixie. It appears to be a 10 - 15g at most. Half of the minimum for his breed.
“Dr.Matt” has been told repeatedly his set up is completely wrong, that his feeding live animals (not always), FISH (which are bad for a host of reasons), AND WILD BIRDS/MICE, will only make his captive bred and raised Pixie incredibly susceptible to parasites and disease. Only ever shrugging it off with “Hes so brightly coloured and healthy looking!” damage to the inside of a frog is not always visible. These frogs can live upwards of 30 years in captivity, this frog is 6 and already looks like he is double that to be honest with you. This frog will be lucky if he makes it to 10, and even then I have no doubt he is in pain.
My heart breaks not only for Mr.Pickles, but for the people out there, watching this channel, following his “instructional set up” videos and such who are going to get a frog and not know how badly they are hurting them.
PLEASE SHARE THIS, PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT THIS MAN!!!