Pet Care for Tree Frogs

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Tim Cole. I'm with the Austin Reptile Service. I've been keeping reptiles and amphibians for over forty years. And we're here to talk about pet care for tree frogs. There's a variety of tree frogs that are available in the market today. One of the most common is the White's tree frogs. They can get four to five inches long. And another one that's fairly common are the green tree frogs, gray tree frogs. And once in a while you'll see some other animals available. Now tree frogs are arboreal, so when you're caging them, you want to concentrate on a more vertical cage than a horizontal cage. Give them branches to climb on, slabs of cork bark. Live broad-leaf plants give them something to hang on to. They do need a water source at all times. Some of them can tolerate being dried out more than others, so you need to check into the particular care of the species you're keeping. All of them feed on live insects. Most people will feed crickets supplemented with calcium. Some of them will eat wax worms, meal worms, earthworms, even some of the larger White's tree frogs will eat baby mice."