New frog mum - help ease my anxiety!

[toxxxickitten]

Caresheets are provided to give you an idea of how to keep a certain species. Of course, variations of the care sheet for you to go off of is completely up to you. White's Tree Frogs are recommended to be kept at about 50-70% humidity. As long as the humidity doesn't get too low then your froggies will be just fine. Since you have moss as a substrate then the cricket bowl is excellent to keep the White's from ingesting the moss. Being relatively new to your set up it may take some longer then others to locate where the food is. You also want to make sure you're putting enough crickets in for everyone as some may eat more then others. Them getting moss stuck to them isn't anything to worry about. As you have seen they will wipe it off themselves. I'm not sure what to tell you about the frog with the gimpy leg. I would think that if he eats/soaks/poops fine then it isn't anything to worry about.

As far as the ants go...I would put down traps to catch them near your cricket bins. You can also sprinkle baking soda around the bin (if you keep it on a table or something?) to deter the ants from getting into the bin. Baking soda is toxic to ants.

[rosequoll]

Caresheets are provided to give you an idea of how to keep a certain species. Of course, variations of the care sheet for you to go off of is completely up to you. White's Tree Frogs are recommended to be kept at about 50-70% humidity. As long as the humidity doesn't get too low then your froggies will be just fine. Since you have moss as a substrate then the cricket bowl is excellent to keep the White's from ingesting the moss. Being relatively new to your set up it may take some longer then others to locate where the food is. You also want to make sure you're putting enough crickets in for everyone as some may eat more then others. Them getting moss stuck to them isn't anything to worry about. As you have seen they will wipe it off themselves. I'm not sure what to tell you about the frog with the gimpy leg. I would think that if he eats/soaks/poops fine then it isn't anything to worry about.

As far as the ants go...I would put down traps to catch them near your cricket bins. You can also sprinkle baking soda around the bin (if you keep it on a table or something?) to deter the ants from getting into the bin. Baking soda is toxic to ants.

Thanks for the help. While I know the care sheets are there and written by people with experience, I'm getting annoyed at the natural humidity here for not fitting into what I'm trying to replicate for the little guys.

Heading off to get more crickets today and I'll try the baking soda trick. Might also get a shallow litter tray and create a 'moat' to help with the situation. I do need to get some non toxic (to me, cats and frogs) ant traps soon. Ants are horrible this time of year and it's driving me nuts.

I think with the little guy, if he continues to be far slower than the others I'll move him and one of the other little guys into a separate tank so they can work on catching up to the bigger babies without too much stress.