Tree frogs

[Kurt]

They may or may not, I can't say one way or another. Your chances of keeping them from hibernating are better if you keep a 12 hour photo-perieod for them as well as keeping them warm. However some animals will still go off feed and go into hibernation mode regardless of what you do. Of course, if this the case you must cool the frogs before they waste away.

[priya]

this all seems quite complicated, i told the dealer i wanted something easy to keep as i am quite new to frog keeping. i will put a heat mat on there tank as over night it is getting dont to about 16.c here at the moment.

[priya]

oh and i do have a normal light bulb on there which is on from 8am to 8pm. do you think i will need the heat mat for them?

[StephenLS]

Quite honestly Priya I find frogs and toads from temperate regions of the world can be harder to look after than tropical species.

If you can ask the dealer to find out if they are captive bred or wild caught. I imagine they are WC in which case ask for the country of origin and thenm look up a temperature chart on google. If they are wild caught they could already have entered a period of dormancy before you got them. In the mean time I wouldn't bother with any additional heating for them...and to be honest you could probably just have the tank in a light room (not in direct sunlight)!

I'm not entirely sure why he's sold you these as a frog you can see. During spring/summer on a night then maybe!

For future ref I highly recommend Dwarf clawed frogs as a starter species - they are fully aquatic, cheap and can be trained take frozen food + they are usually fairly visible!

I'd like to know how you get on!

[Kurt]

oh and i do have a normal light bulb on there which is on from 8am to 8pm. do you think i will need the heat mat for them?

What do you mean by a normal light bulb? Do you mean an incandescent bulb, or perhaps fluorescent one?

[priya]

the frogs i have are captive bred, they are only small babies at the mo.

i have a normal 40 watt light bulb as a basking spot for them and it also gives them a sence of night and day.

they are kept indoors so they shouldn't get to cold. although i was wondering about the heat mat for them because it gets quite cold over night.

maybe they are just hiding away alot because they are small

i just dont want them to go into hibernation as i wouldnt know what to do lol.

i have kept clawed frogs before but i prefer the ones that are on land.

[priya]

earlier in the thread i said the frogs were 33 cm long, i meant 3 cm lol, sorry typing error.

[BEETLE]

I have kept both species in the past and cannot remember much difference in their visability. I found the trick was to provide tempting perching places in areas that could be seen, I have seen plenty of Hyla arborea sitting out in sunlight in the South of France and Hungary.

[Kurt]

earlier in the thread i said the frogs were 33 cm long, i meant 3 cm lol, sorry typing error.

I saw that, but I knew what you meant and I assumed everyone else did.