New with red eyed tree frog breeding ?s

[FrogGuy]

Hello! I am new to this forum. I have 1 female red eyed tree frog right now and was thinking about getting another and breeding them.

We have 50 gallon (?) tank that measures 36 in. long, 12 in. wide but only 20 in. tall. We were thinking about putting live plants like our other terrarium and have the front 1/3 water. We were also planning on having a humidifier going on and off to simulate the rainy season. Does this sound ok for a breeding tank?

Also can 1 male and female stay in the same tank forever? 2 males together? 2 males and 1 female?

-thanks!

[John]

Sure you can keep them together. A humidifier isn't going to simulate rain though. You will need to make a rain chamber in order to get them in the mood to breed. There are threads talking about it on the forum here. Good luck!

[bshmerlie]

Welcome to the forum. John is right the humidifier is probably not going to cut it. Some people have had luck by just hand misting like crazy but I've never been able to get that to work. If you can a separate rain chamber would be ideal or you can do what I did and incorporate the rain chamber into the design of the tank. My tank is a little larger than yours but you could do something similar. I have the left one third of my tank a shallow pond. It is sectioned off from my land side. Before I had access to a misting system I simply put a small pump in the water with a tube that ran up to the top and sprayed down water. The water would land in the pond and recirculate. This way there is no trauma of having to move them to another tank and it works just as good. Now that I have a misting system one nozzle sprays that side of the tank and there is no setup time required. You do have to have plants overhanging the water section. Check out my red eye tank in my photo album. You can see what Im talking about.

[FrogGuy]

so I could keep 2 males and 1 female together and they wouldnt need to be seperated ever? thanks for the anwsers!

[bshmerlie]

Yes a male heavy group is what you want.