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Hi Michelle,
Your white's sounds like a cutie!

Not sure what would cause a drastic change in his color. Stress from the move and still adjusting? Perhaps add more color to the tank? Although my white's is always a dark olive color, even though he has tons of plants. You may want to try introducing a full spectrum bulb if you don't have one?

I don't have one but I've been thinking of getting one for my main tank to see if Glurmo colors up at all. He's always a dark olive. I think it's just his color though. And the new frog (I've officially decided on Lrrr) colors up when there's less stress .

Shy is normal, he is in a new place. My white's is only awake when lights are out. Why do you take him out of hiding for feeding? In my opinion, not necessary and may be causing additional stress. It's good he's eating, though! A white's with no appetite is cause for concern.

Well the first couple days I had him I wanted to make sure he was eating. He was pretty skinny. I use a deep tupperware container that I put crickets in and then put into the tank. I just moved him over to the edge so he could see they were there. But I'll be more hands off so he can adjust.

Feed him every day, about 3 appropriate sized crickets. Also, try offering night crawlers cut to size. Don't forget to dust with calcium and with a multi vitamin (calcium about 2-3 x / week, vitamins once per week).

I actually just bought a separate calcium supplement at the expo. Before I had an all in one calcium and multivitamin supplement, but I know now that it's not good to overdo vitamins. So once a week I still use the combo supplement but every other time I use just calcium. Should this be alright?

Your hygrometer may need to be calibrated. Search the forum for how to do that. It's not uncommon for them to be completely wrong. White's burrow, usually because they need more humidity.

Thank you for that. I had no idea that they could be calibrated. It's the one I had in my main tank and it never read the same as my digital. I wasn't sure which one was wrong! I will definitely look into that.

I have not handled my white's tree frog in over 11 months. But, he is hand fed, and very social. I feed him at the same time every night (about an hour after lights out). I go in with a very dim light, hold a cricket or worm in front of his nose, and he gobbles it up. I never pick him up, pry him out of hiding. When a frog is handled, it causes stress. They fear being eaten or squished. I would let him be, and perhaps use the glass bowl feeding method. Let him become adjusted to the new environment. and consider moving him to an even quieter area of the house, or if that is not possible, cover at least 3 sides of his cage (not the top, of course).

I usually handle Glurmo quite often, but only as a necessity. When I feed him crickets in the tupperware he'll jump in on his own and eat the crickets but then he hunkers down and falls asleep without getting out LOL. So I need to take him out of the dish so I can take it out of the tank. He doesn't mind being handled at all though. If I reach in to get him he'll climb onto my hand and not want to get off. But I can see Lrrr isn't going to be that tolerant. But I shouldn't need to do that for him anyways as he seems to have no problem jumping out of the container

But last night he got out of his tank! I'm going to post a new thread about that though. I just hope it doesn't mess with his adjusting