White's treefrog owners

[kaylalane]

Hi Kaylalane,

I'll start with the tank. Beautiful setup, but for a frog this big I would have recommended a minimum of the 18x18x24 tall Exo-terra. These guys are big jumpers and climbers and need the space. He just does not have enough space in a setup the size he is in to exercise his muscles properly. Also your guy (or girl, looks female to me, have you heard him croak?) is on the porky side... kind of like me, lol... and so it's going to be harder for him to get around. How often and how much do you feed him? Might want to mix it up a bit and give him some good gut loaded crickets alternating with the dubia. Maybe try feeding less but more often, like 2-3 medium crickets every other day then a couple dubia the next time around. Do you dust his food with vitamin powder and calcium with D?

I'd love to hear the hand feeding story. I have a problem child White's who refuses to eat at all unless I hand feed him.

I've not heard him croak, he does sometimes make a croakish noise when I walk past and he wants food.

He is on a diet. Lol! He gets 2 med Dubai's 3 to 4 times a week. They are dusted with calcium D and I also gut load them for at least a week before feeding them.

As for the hand feeding...
To start I live in Northern California (definitely not a native place for one of these guys). My sister's dog was out back and stated barking like crazy. I went out to see what the problem was and found the dog jumping at the fence. Towards the top of the fence, just out of reach of the dog (thanks goodness) was this decrepit looking frog. I honestly thought at first that it was dead. Super skinny, dehydrated, cold (it was October). Once I realized it was still alive I took it in the house. I had to hand feed and use a syringe to give water because he was so weak. I quickly realized it was not a native frog. I put up found flyers trying to find it's owner thinking that maybe it escaped. Now I'm pretty sure someone just decided they didn't want it anymore and released it in the wild. Slowly he got better, but no matter how hard I tried to get him to do it he won't eat unless he's being hand fed. Luckily he does drink on his own. I fell in love with him and decided to keep him. I made sure to be 100% positive he wasn't a wild frog before deciding to keep him. Everyone I talked to said it was impossible for him to survive in the wild in Northern California.

3 years later and I still love him as much as in the beginning.

I'll get him a bigger tank and see if that helps.

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