White's Tree Frog Considerations

[SwimminSteve]

Thanks for reading!
I have an empty 20g long tank taunting me. I've never owned a tree frog, but have been interested in getting a white's for almost 4 years now. I bought a book way back when, but then ended up expanding my clawed frog collection instead.
I was wondering if a converted 20g long (which is 30"H x 13"W x 13"D) is large enough for one white's?
And if it is large enough, what would be a good way of heating it? Heat pad? Lamp?
Are nightcrawlers a good staple diet? Suplemented with crickets and a rare (once a month?) day old pinky for a treat?

I already buy nightcrawlers for my clawed frogs, pixie, and pacman. It would be nice to find a frog that would be comfortable in the converted vertical 20g. Is there a frog better suited? Unfortunately I don't have space to keep it horizontally.
Thank you!

[Frogfeet123]

Hi! Definitely go for it. They are wonderful little frogs with huge personalities! Yes that tank would be perfect for just one. I use a heat lamp, I would advise against a heat pad because I've heard they melt terrariums... I feed my frogs crickets as a staple diet, but I've heard good things about night crawlers too. And a little pinky is a good treat. Remember tree frogs need more height than width.


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[deranged chipmunk]

That tank has the right height, but the 13x13 foot print is entirely too small, especially once you add anything into the tank. It will get more and more confined once you add any sort of foliage, whether it be fake or real, climbing wood, water dish, ect.

Heating pads are fine for glass terrariums. They do not get to the 1400*f it required to melt glass. A lamp above a converted tank is not a good thing either. Condensation builds up on the hot glass and cracks it. Quite a few members learned that lesson the hard way.

There aren't really any tree frogs that will live in that size conversion comfortably for a life time.


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[irThumper]

Hi Steve, Bill is spot on there. You might want to try selling or swapping your current tank so you can get a vert that's more suitable. You could advertise it here in the sales section, or on Craigslist or on a herp sales forum on Facebook. For a neat smaller TF species you could try Grays. Check your states regulations on keeping various species though, they unfortunately don't allow them where I live (Oregon) and it's much better to find that out ahead of time before getting your heart set on a particular species!

[elly]

Large heat pads could possibly melt plastic terrariums, or so I've heard. You wouldn't have to worry about that with glass. Sorry the tank doesn't seem quite suitable for tree frogs, hopefully you'll find something else or a good deal on another terrarium if you have your heart set on tree frogs.

[deranged chipmunk]

Large heat pads could possibly melt plastic terrariums, or so I've heard. You wouldn't have to worry about that with glass. Sorry the tank doesn't seem quite suitable for tree frogs, hopefully you'll find something else or a good deal on another terrarium if you have your heart set on tree frogs.

i have heard of them melting the critter keepers, however, there was a lack of common sense used in those instances such as using too large of a heating pad on too small of a keeper.

[Lija]

Common sense .....
I'd add that all sticky heat pads are one time use only, if you stick it in smth, you can't take it out and stick somewhere else... Not one fire has started this way.

[SwimminSteve]

Thanks for the input folks! I'll look into other options.