Only young frogs can be raised to adult frogs at the stage of about 80,000 to start, the cycle of two years: to seed frogs, tadpoles, young frogs, adult frogs, a one-stop breeding, 180,000 to start, the cycle of at least three years.
Stone frogs climb out of their burrows in the evening, foraging and playing in the wood and grass on both sides of mountain streams or slopes, unusually active. However, their range of activities is generally small. When the night is deep, it will gradually return to the cave, and its traces are seldom found outside the cave after dawn. During the day, it usually ambles in the cave entrance, or lurks in the grass, gravel and stone chips between the gaps, waiting for an opportunity to catch nearby food: once encountered water snakes, rats and other hostiles, or people approaching the cave entrance, it quickly retreated to the cave, or sank to the bottom of the water.
The activity of the stone frog is closely related to the external environmental conditions, and the effect of changes in water temperature and current is particularly obvious. The suitable water temperature is 15～25℃, and the activity is normal: if the water temperature is too low, the activity is less, the growth is stagnant, and hibernation is carried out, and if the water temperature is too high, the activity will be abnormal, or even death.
Stone frogs in the winter cold are hibernating, do not eat and do not move, eyes closed tightly, no reaction to the outside world, hibernation, mainly by the body of the stored nutrients to carry out extremely weak and slow metabolism. According to the observation, hibernation generally starts after the frost, and at the time of hibernation, when the water temperature is higher than 12℃, there are also some stone frogs ambling in the cave or jumping out of the cave activities. When hibernating, stone frogs prefer to live in deep pools of water in mountain streams or in caves with mud near streams, and their resistance to cold is better than that of stone caves.
The stone frog's eyesight is poor, and it can only feed on live bait that is active, and will not ingest dead food even if it is delivered to its mouth. When it finds the food target, it jumps up, pounces on the food object, throws out its tongue with mucus to catch the food, and quickly rolls it into its mouth. Predation mostly at night, hiding in burrows during the day.
The tadpoles, which just hatch out of the membrane, rely on the hatching yellow capsule for nutrition in 4 to 5 days, and start to forage for food when the hatching yellow is consumed. After anatomical observation, the intestines of the tadpoles contain plant debris, small cyclophylls, filamentous algae, watermilfoils, mosses, lacewings, ciliates, water fleas, rotifers, as well as diatoms, methanotrophs, golden algae, and so on. For artificial feeding, you can feed some higher protein bait, such as egg yolk, soy milk and fish meal.
The food of stone frog stage is mainly mosquitoes, small insects and insect larvae. To the adult frog stage, its food range is very wide, anatomical observation of 47 adult frogs, found in the stomach and intestines of 57 kinds of food. Such as: insects, centipedes, bee spiders, malu, snails, snails, snails, shrimps, crabs, miscellaneous fish, sand loach, and earthworms, young snakes, small birds and so on.