Green and Black Tree Frogs????

[SiNi5T3R]

So me and my lady went to pets mart today to get a hide for a frog and they had a "Sign" on a reptile cage with "Green Tree Frogs". They looked like your normal green tree frogs accept one..one was PITCH Black...is this is a different type and should they be housed together? they were 10$ ech. we are thinking of getting a few for that cheap. if i got a 40 gal long tank and put it on its side with a screen lid and secure the lid and make like a door out of the screen and put like plastic rap around the rest to keep in humidity, would that work? the tank is pretty long if it was stood up. we have some turtles in it now that im getting rid of.

do they do good on crickets and are they easy to take care of? they were prob about the size of one of those old big dollar piece coins...



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OH Almost forgot HAHA...this is funny...when we were at petsmart there is this guy that always helped us when we were into fish a while back and we talk when ever we go there and hes working and today we needed to buy some mice and we usually wont pay petsmart prices "10$ for 6 furry mice...like the size of a pinky rat a few days old" and we ant gonna pay that lol but today we were desperate and needed some mice for our snake. so we went and asked if we could look at the sizes and open the boxes and he said yeah and we found the right size and were complaining on how much they were lol and he was like "walk over here ill tell ya a secret"...so we walk over and hes like "you know...we dont have any security cameras, so you could just dump them into your girls purse and they wouldnt know" LOL...good employee right? hahaha....so...we ended up getting 6 free mice...

[Nabced]

I wouldn't bought the black one without even thinking about it lol

[SiNi5T3R]

you wouldnt or you would? is it a different type or morph or sick or what? if its a special kind then hell il be back over there tomorrow pickin all of them up lol...they all looked nice and bright colored so they look healthy...

[BG]

Love to see a pic of the black one. You sure it wasn't' just dark,cause if its to humid they get dark

[SiNi5T3R]

it was humid in the tank but the others were pure green and one was just plain out pure black..like BLACK...not like a grey or a off coloration, it was its Color...

[Nabced]

I would have I've never heard of a black frog and if its sick well owell take care of it because obviously the pet store isn't.

[SiNi5T3R]

hmm if i go in soon and i dont buy it ill at least snap a photo of it for you guys. it was a tree frog thats for sure...looked just like a green just black P I seen on yahoo answers that the greens can change color when in different moods? doute that tho...

[UncleChester]

So me and my lady went to pets mart today to get a hide for a frog and they had a "Sign" on a reptile cage with "Green Tree Frogs". They looked like your normal green tree frogs accept one..one was PITCH Black...is this is a different type and should they be housed together? they were 10$ ech. we are thinking of getting a few for that cheap. if i got a 40 gal long tank and put it on its side with a screen lid and secure the lid and make like a door out of the screen and put like plastic rap around the rest to keep in humidity, would that work? the tank is pretty long if it was stood up. we have some turtles in it now that im getting rid of.

do they do good on crickets and are they easy to take care of? they were prob about the size of one of those old big dollar piece coins...

Care is pretty much the same as for a Gray treefrog, except Green Tree Frogs, Hyla cinerea, are a little smaller and from a little warmer climate (though their ranges overlap). See Frog Forum - Gray Tree Frog Care and Breeding

I dunno about the black, we don't have Green Tree Frogs in the wild here so I'm really only familiar with mine, which can hit a very dark olivey brown. However last year I did run across a Green Frog, Rana clamitans, which was pretty much full on black Picture 7 of 65 from Wild Frogs (and Toads (and other Amhibians (plus some turtles))) so I suppose it's a possible mutation or pigment problem. I found it again as an adult this year, it's now blotchey-black but fully grown, so I don't think it's necessarily a health issue. I'd definitely be interested in a picture of the frog you saw, and I'm especially curious about whether the eyes are totally black or have the usual goldish irises.

EDIT:

OH Almost forgot HAHA...this is funny...when we were at petsmart there is this guy that always helped us when we were into fish a while back and we talk when ever we go there and hes working and today we needed to buy some mice and we usually wont pay petsmart prices "10$ for 6 furry mice...like the size of a pinky rat a few days old" and we ant gonna pay that lol but today we were desperate and needed some mice for our snake. so we went and asked if we could look at the sizes and open the boxes and he said yeah and we found the right size and were complaining on how much they were lol and he was like "walk over here ill tell ya a secret"...so we walk over and hes like "you know...we dont have any security cameras, so you could just dump them into your girls purse and they wouldnt know" LOL...good employee right? hahaha....so...we ended up getting 6 free mice...

You should be proud of yourself. Yea, real proud.

[SiNi5T3R]

thats basiclly what they had for sale. that frog looks just like it.i didnt notice eye coloration tho so duno.