How to Care for a Green Tree Frog
Green tree frogs are communal frogs found in many areas in the United States. They can be fairly noisy in the wild as a male calling for a mate can make up to 75 "quack"-like noises in a minute. Caring for a green tree frog is simple and they can be very fun to watch.
- Difficulty:
- Moderately Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Enclosure
- Locking screen lid
- Substrate
- Full spectrum lighting
- Live and artificial plants
- Water dish
- Spray bottle
- Feeder crickets
- Reptile vitamin and mineral supplement powder
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Buy an enclosure that is appropriately sized for your frogs. A 10 gallon aquarium will work for up to five frogs but a larger, specifically taller, aquarium would be better. Also purchase a locking screen top for your tank.
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Cover the bottom of the aquarium in a substrate that maintains humidity like peat moss or orchid back. An alternate substrate would be children's play sand. Saturate the sand with water and press a small pond-like depression into the sand in a corner of the aquarium.
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Use full spectrum lighting above the aquarium to benefit the health of your animals.
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Provide plenty of live or artificial plants to climb on as your frogs are arboreal. Live plants will help slightly to maintain a higher humidity.
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Fill a small shallow bowl with fresh non-chlorinated water daily. You will also need to spray the cage with a mist from a spray bottle on a daily basis to maintain a high humidity level.
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Feed your frog feeder crickets from your local pet store. Feed the crickets with a vitamin supplement, then dust them in one as well before feeding them to your frogs.
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Tips & Warnings
Green tree frogs will usually go for highly active food. If you have trouble getting the frogs to eat, try holding a cricket in forceps then wiggle it in front of your frogs.
Add night spectrum lighting so you can observe your frogs nocturnal behaviors.
Keep the cage humid and wet; if not your frogs will eventually die.
Do not use reptile carpeting as a substrate because it is rough enough that it can actually harm the frog's skin.
