New whites tree from home

[priya]

hi, im gonna buy my two whites tree frogs a new home, im thinking of getting one which is 18 x 18 x 18 inches, will this be tall enough?

[1beataway]

I like the ones that are 18X18X24. That's what I have now. But I had one that was 12X12X18 before, and they were fine in it until they outgrew it. I think if you can get one that is taller, great, but if you can't, then that would be fine.

[priya]

i could get one which was 24 high but the problem is i have a shelf with all my tarantullas on above the frog tank and at the moment they are in a 12 x 12 x 18. if i went to 24 inch high i wouldnt beable to get the light on top as the shelf would get in the way. so do you think that 18 high isnt tall enough? they wil be getting more floor space tho.

[1beataway]

I think the 18 inch would be fine. One of my friend's has an 18x18x18, and she had two in there. One was -huge- too. Like 3-4 inches.

[priya]

so will they be able to stay in the 18 high one for the rest of there lives or will i need to upgrade them later on?

[1beataway]

I'm really not sure...I guess it depends on how big they get? My friend's seem comfortable. But what if you have two females that get like 4 inches?

I don't think there's really that much difference between 18 and 24 inches. Especially if you are limited by space.

[Julia]

hi, im gonna buy my two whites tree frogs a new home, im thinking of getting one which is 18 x 18 x 18 inches, will this be tall enough?

Four out of my five Whites tend to sleep on the ground of their enclosure. But at night time they are all over the place. They do like to climb a lot so my advice would be to go with the biggest possible enclosure that you can fit in your house/budget. That way you don't have too worry about them outgrowing it eventually.

[1beataway]

My White's almost never sleep on the ground. Even when they are at 'ground level', they are sticking to the wall or bark or a plant. But the ones at work tend to. I'm not sure what makes makes one frog or the other choose the wall or the ground. They certainly move around a lot at night. Especially Luigi. He's a party animal. All night long, jumping around, slipping and sliding on rocks, tossing dirt and moss around, performing acrobatics.

I disagree with wider over taller though. My two White's were in a 10 gallon aquarium. Then I got the taller small Exo-Terra habitat, and my frogs were a lot more active and seemed to be doing better. Then I upgraded to the bigger Exo-Terra habitat, and they are doing fantastic in it. They use the height. They love climbing to the top and jumping down. It's a game to them.

Baudrillard started croaking when he was just a tiny frog, between 1-2 inches long. Definitely still a juvenille. And he did everynight for a few months. Then he suddenly stop, but Luigi croaks. Luigi has croaked from the day I got him though, and he wasn't quite an adult yet, but bigger than Baudrillard was.

[Kurt]

If any of my treefrogs are sleeping on the ground that sends up red-flags to me immediately. In the past I have found treefrogs that were sleeping on the ground were hypocalcemic. Once they started receiving enough calcium they slept off the ground again.

With treefrogs, a taller enclosure is much better than a wide one. Its true most treefrogs are not found in the forest canopy, but at the same time they wound be found on the ground either. So a taller cage is essential with all Hylids, Centrolenidids, Rhacophoridids, and Hyperoliidids.

Also, White's females don't croak, they have a release call, but they don't call like males do.

[offroad537]

female do crok. i saw a video on youtube where the male was croking alot and the female was croking every once in a while. even if you read books of stuff on line they well say that female well cork but not as much as the males.

[Kurt]

Never heard a female croak. Are you sure you were hearing a female?

[Julia]

If any of my treefrogs are sleeping on the ground that sends up red-flags to me immediately. In the past I have found treefrogs that were sleeping on the ground were hypocalcemic. Once they started receiving enough calcium they slept off the ground again.

Hmm...interesting. I will up the calcium and see if anything changes. Thanks for the heads up.

[Kurt]

Hmm...interesting. I will up the calcium and see if anything changes. Thanks for the heads up.

You're welcome.