My first tree frog!

[pansie]

Introducing Squidgie!

No idea on age/sex, but he/she is about 5 inches snout to vent =)

He joins my family of a pac man and a pyxie!

[InfinitysDaughter]

Is it a whites? I'd say female by the color of the neck from what I can see but could be wrong. If you can, gently turn him/her over and look at the throat. If its dark, its male. If its white its female.

Very cute little one either way. ^w^

[pansie]

It was labelled as a "white lipped tree frog" but it was purchased from the same store that had my cranwelli labelled as an ornata and my edulis labelled as an adspersus =p So i'm not 100% sure tbh!! I'll take a look at it's throat to see =) Squidgie seemed a pretty safe unisex name ahaha

[S13]

looks like Litoria infrafrenata to me. White lipped tree frog. Congrats and welcome to the tree frog club

[pansie]

thanks S13!
such a cutie! Even my 2 year old was yelling "yay!! frog!!" in the store lol

[pansie]

ok, question!

can i put an UTH under the tank? ( i can't with my other frogs, but these ones aren't burrowers, right?)

[S13]

They dont burrow however, I find UTH to be useless under the tank no matter what. On my red eye's tank, the UTH would have to penetrate hydro ball layer plus cocofiber layer, thus not heating the enclosure like it should. I still use them on the side even with my tree frogs. I put them at the lower back sides of the enclosures.

[InfinitysDaughter]

I use UTH's but I am starting to realize that its not heating the taller tanks enough. Azy spends most of her time at the bottom of the tank where its warmest.

I think when I get Azy's larger tank I'll have a UTH with some sort of dimmer or something where I can control the heat, lowering it a bit durring the day and having it higher at night while using a daylight bulb durring the day. I think thats the best for my girl. She dislikes the light at night so I think a nightlight bulb would be a waist but a UTH would keep the temps even from the heat absorbed by the tanks substraight and various items durring the day. Different frogs (even of the same species) have different wants and needs. I would get a daylight bulb if you dont already since it helps promote normal behavior and helps them absorber calcium better but either UTH or a nightlight bulb at night is up to your frogs preferences.

I would say they finally labeled one right. It looks like a white lip to me. X3

[pansie]

woohoo!! go petsmart! <3 lol

thanks so much for the advice!!

[pansie]

she already ate for me tonight! =)
woohoo! took down 2 crickets and 2 red wigglers when i was feeding the boys. I didn't expect her to eat so soon! Tank took a week to eat, and Bruce took about 4 days to settle in enough to eat

[S13]

Nice, my baby white's ate the 2nd night in his home lol. I remember my RETF going about a week before eating after putting him in his new enclosure from his old one.

[matt palm]

ive heard so many things about how whites eat anything and everything that moves

[pansie]

I'm very used to frogs that eat anything and everything! My pac man is a garbage disposal!! (i don't really feed him garbage!) My pyxie seems to be the pickiest eater of the 3, which is NOT what i expected!

i believe this frog is a girl, from what was said about the throat, it's very white! Her name has changed to "Pixel" =) Sounds girlier <3

[InfinitysDaughter]

Pixel. That so cute!!!!

Azy tried to bite me the morning after I got her. I went to work and found out the girls fed in the morning (I feed at night) so I got her crickets that day and she ate heartily that night. X3