New whites tree from home

[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]

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

If you hold the frog gently in your hand with your thumb across the center of its belly, sometimes the male frogs will croak. Their throats swell and they make loud barking noises. I tried this with the one Whites I believe to be a female, and it only makes a tiny squeaky noise. Similar to the male but her throat does not puff up and its not nearly as loud. At night when the boys are singing as loud as they can, the female just sits and looks at them like they are crazy. Other then her little squeak, she does not croak.

[Kurt]

Thats what is called a release call. Both genders do it in a lot of species. It is used by females to let certain males that their attention is unwanted and by males to let other males know they have made a bad choice in a mate. "Get off me dude!"

By no means is this a call or "croak". There are some species in which both genders call, Xenopus laevis comes to mind, but Litoria caerulea is not one of them.

[1beataway]

It is used by females to let certain males that their attention is unwanted and by males to let other males know they have made a bad choice in a mate. "Get off me dude!"

So that's what they were saying! It's fun to hear the squeak when one jumps on top of the other. Luigi is quite the clumsy acrobat.

Well then, perhaps I have two males. Like everyone else, I was under the impression that females will, but not as often and in response to a male. So, I thought Baudrillard was possibly a female since Luigi did it a lot more, and Baudrillard would do it when I played a sound file of White's calling.

[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.