Green Tree Frogs

Hyla cinerea

My pal "Chubbies" is a male Green Tree Frog.

Green Tree Frogs are a great Tree Frog to have for a pet and are very easy to take care of.

Price - Green Tree Frogs range in price from store to store but i bought my frog for $8.99.

Food - Green Tree Frogs eat crickets that should be fed a vitamin suppliment before being fed to your frog. I bought a small jar of cricket food which helps to "gut pack" the frog full of vitamins. I buy two dozen crickets every one or two weeks and keep them in the smallest "little critter pen" that you can buy at most pet stores. I find that it houses the crickets quite well and has a plastic door at the top that i open and shake the crickets in. I hate bugs and prfer not to touch them so i bought an eyebrow tweezer that I use to pick the crickets up with when ever I have to. Make sure that if you are housing crickets that you keep the area they are in moist.

Living Enviroment - An idea set up for your frog tank is the "vivarium" set up. A vivarium is a dry tank set up but make sure that you have a small water dish for you froggy because frogs don't drink they absorb water through their skin. I suggest buying a 10 gallon tank with a screen lid. Because Treen Frogs don't move around alot you can house several frogs in this size tank. In my vivarium I put aquarium gravel down on the floor of the tankthen covered the gravel with real moss. ( you can buy this dried out moss from your pet store in a bag and it can be washed and re-used. Do not go and find your own moss from outside because the moss may have harmfull chemicals in it or the moss itself may be harmful to the frog.) The frogs love the real moss because it is soft. A couple of weeks ago I was thinkin about buyin a little house to put in my frogs tank when i thought of a great idea. I took the lid from a plastic juice jug (the ones with the hold to pour the juice plus another hold with a grated opening so that juice can be strained) and washed it out. I put it in my frog tank and it works perfectly as a house becaue the opening is just big enough for the frog and the grated opening allows air to flow in from the other side. The juice lid alson had two deep groves in the top of the lid which I filled up with water and there you have it a frog house/water bowl. My frog loves it and it didn't cost me anything (except now we have no lid for our juice container) I also have many rocks and peices of wood in the vivarium for my frog to climb on. I must warn anyone buying wood from a pet store to Be Careful and make sure that the wood that you buy won't hurt your frog when it gets wet. I bought a peice of wood designed for vivariums, terrariums and aquariums and was told by a store clerck that the wood contained no harmful dyes or chemicals andwill be alright to get wet. So I took it home along with my new little Tree Frog named "Chewie". Two weeks later i noticed when my frog would get wet and go on the wood the wood would give off a reddish dye and it would get on my frog. I took the wood out and washed it and put it back in the tank but a few days later i noticed the same thing was happening. I immediatly removed the wood but it was too late for Chewie she died from the effects of the dye. I took the wood back to Petsmart and got a full refund but they are continue to sell the wood in their store. The wood that I have in my tank is working great now though and Chubbies loves to curl up on it. Your vivarium does not need to be heated but they like to get as close to the nearest light as possible so i suggest buying a desk lamp with a twisty neck so you can twist it above the tank to a good spot for the frogs.

Green Tree Frog Friends? - Some types of Tree Frogs do well together in the same tank but other don't. Be very careful when mixing breeds because some will actualy eat smaller breeds. Always make sure that you but frogs that are around the same size and when in doubt don't mix the breed.

Disposition - Male Green Tree Frogs croak and it sounds a bit like a duck quacking. They blow up a big bubble under their chin that goes in and out. It is quite amusing to watch. They often croak if you try to pick them up or if there is a female Green Tree Frog around. Green Tree Frogs can be great pets and are very cute little guys but they aren't very active and I suggest that you buy a more active type of frog if they you are looking in to buying a frog for young children because they may find the frog boreing after a while.

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