Tree frogs

[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.

[priya]

so how big do they get mark?

[BEETLE]

Hyla arborea get about 5cm and are heavier built than the American species. I had no problems with them trying to hibernate and remember they had a real preference for true flies as food, though they were not fussy.

[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.