Red Eyed Tree Frog help? Please!

[moviescolin]

Thanks guys! As far as I know, they are captive bred. The man I bought them from had about 50 of them in a small tank and was talking to me about breeding them.

I plan to always use the cricket bowl method.

I do have another question though, is their day/night cycle disturbed by a red night heat light? I expieremented a little last night and turned it off. Sure enough, this morning there were 1-2 crickets missing and the two frogs were in completely different spots in the tank.

Brian - So I should have more leaves/branches/things to climb on near the top of the tank? And keep the floor kind of bare? Kind of disappointed, I was hoping they'd live forever in the current enclosure. Ill have to save up a couple of paychecks and get an 18x18x24.

[moviescolin]

Forgot to mention - the crickets are just your standard pinhead crickets. The bowl sits atop the water portion, should I set it on the land portion of the tank? Just trying to figure out why they're not eating any crickets!

[killerecho]

Your ground is fine, moss and all, if you plan to always bowlfeed. You may want to consider adding microfauna such as springtails and/or isopods to help manage debris and waste in the tank. And with them, some leaf litter covering the ground is also a good idea.

I would dispense with the red light. I can't confirm this, but I've heard from a few others that red light does appear to disturb the night cycle of red eyes, even if they can't detect red as well as the rest of the spectrum. If cold is a problem, you can get a heat mat and stick it on the side of the tank. If you must use a bulb, I've had good results with a 15W exoterra nightglow, which has a purplish color that doesn't seem disturb them. Stick to the lowest wattage you can find though - heat bulbs get REALLY hot and you don't want to cook your frogs.

Pinheads? Are you sure? How big are the frogs? True pinheads are 1/16ths of an inch long - way too small for anything but newly morphed froglets.

If your bowl sits on the water, is there enough space in the water for the frogs to take a dip? I would still place the bowl on land because you don't want crickets ending up in the water and fouling it up if a few happen to jump out.

[moviescolin]

Well, I do have a spare nightglow bulb. I'll pop it in tonight and see what happens. I'll also put the cricket bowl on the land portion. They still had room to hop in the water, and the crickets can't seem to get out of the bowl.

The crickets are, I would guess, an eighth to a quarter of an inch long. It's the "small" size at petsmart. They are not longer than the width of the frogs' heads, though.

[S13]

Good advice given in here Good luck! When I moved my Red-Eyed Leaf Frog from the home he was given to me in to his new 12x12x18, I literally had no contact with him for about a week and a half. I would only go in his tank to spot clean, mist, feed, change water while he was asleep (he's a pretty hard sleeper lol) and I kept the tank covered overnight. I'd say about a week he was accustomed to his new home. Now he does his routine rounds in there and eats everything I put in front of him every other night. Just takes time to get used to their new environment.

[BlueisallIneed]

My only advice is to go to a Vet and get them tested for parasites! Expos are the WORST to get animals from! They are always sick! Just get them checked out to be safe then sorry!

[moviescolin]

So basically anytime I rearrange the tank, are they going to have to go through this process?

[S13]

I would think so. From what I gather, these animals are not good with sudden environment changes. I would imagine it isn't as bad as a move from one completely different tank to another though.