WTF help with trio and colors please

[1616cinnamon]

Hello, long time reader...first time poster. I have tried to read up but can't seem to find this specific answer. Hope you all can help.

I purchase a WTF (labeled Aulstralian) a bit ago. All his tankmates were kelly green (the nice green) but babies at an inch or so. He was grayish/pale green and maybe 2 1/2 inches. Lady said they have had him for a while. I decided to purchase him bc of his size.

Today I purchased two more to add to the Skyscraper terrarium, once out of quarantine. Different store. At this store, all were dark brown in color except one which was the kelly green. The brown ones were larger and the kelly green was *slightly smaller. My hubby was persuading me to purchase the two largest (both brown). I was eyeing the kelly to mix the colors but I didnt bc of hubby. After thinking it over now that I am home, the green one was not small enough to worry about cannibalism so maybe I should have gotten that one.

So....I have always hoped for three different colored WTF.

Do you think the browns will ever turn the kelly green color or should I have purchased the green one? I know WTF change colors according to temperature, age, stress level, so on.

I have attached pics:

1) my grayish/pale green (he has grey lighter eyes)

2) twin browns (darker eyes than my first) aND dark brown with slight green trim around bottom edge of brown.

Thoughts? I would really love three different colors.

I have the 18x18x36 Skyscraper. Not sure it can handle four. Three was my goal.

[1616cinnamon]

Sorry. I can't get my pics to load.

Frog #1....pale greenish gray. Lighter eyes....gray to be honest. Always this color even with his green tankmates at the store.

#2 and #3 (new, different store) dark brown, darker eyes. All feogs were dark brown at this store. One kelly green one I didn't purchase.


I hope I can figure out how to post these pictures.


I would love three different color frogs ideally.

Thank you for opinions

[elly]

I have a couple of pea green/ olive frogs that have never turned the Kelly green shade, so it's probable they won't. I don't know for certain, but I suspect that Kelly green is more common in the Aussie genepool so frogs with more of those genes are more likely to be that color.

You'll probably have frogs of different shades at some point considering the way they change colors. At the very least you can brighten up your frogs by experimenting with the light in the tank. It won't change their colors, but it will show them off to their best advantage.