Gray Tree Frog Care - Hyla versicolor and Hyla chrysoscelis

[Andoconda]

I have Gray Tree Frogs and they turned into froglets about 5 days ago. They won't eat these bloodworms we got for them. Do you have any suggestions? I might try waxworms but I'm not sure if those are to big. Please comment if you have any suggestions.

[Susan Churchill]

Aren't they the cutest things! A few of mine have completely resorbed tails and I think that is when they get hungry. I have gone to PetSmart to get 1/4" grasshoppers. The med/lg ones are the same size as the froglet. I have also heard about wingless fruit flies. They were out the other day. Good luck.

[Susan Churchill]

Oh, another thing....the froglets and frogs will only eat LIVE insects. They will not eat ants and beetles. I have not kept mine captive. They were bred in a fountain and I did put them in a safe spot while they resorbed their tails. I then felt it was time for them to go out on their own, just like in nature. I got them off to a better start than they would have had in the wild. My husband said if all the froglets lived we would have about 250 around our pool (yikes and yuck). The froglets are a bit like teenagers.....you raise them until they become fairly independent and then you watch them making their own decisions and screwing up a lot..i.e. jumping out of the fountain and drying out like a raisin. (double yuck). Good luck.

[Andoconda]

Thanks for the advice!

[SludgeMunkey]

Managed to get a recording of some Grays tonight. Since I am at work and stuck using my phone, I sent a link to you via email, John. Feel free to strip the sound for the caresheet.

The video can be found on YouTube also. My account there is under the handle "Trombagal". There is also one of grays and a lone cognatus calling.

I'll make a post here with the videos if I can ever get away from work...

[John]

I didn't get an email Johnny. I'll try to get around to adding that sound but it's pretty far down my list.

[angriesthedgehog]

Hi anyone got any info on breeding, mine layed eggs but looks like they are all dud. This is the first time they have layed eggs, I thought maybe the tank was a little too hot?

[LauraCox]

This is a wonderful guide! It's helped me a bundle!

[Linda S]

This site has been very helpful. The last month or so, we've had these little tree frogs sneaking in under the cover of our hot tub! Yes, it's active and up to temp. (102 degrees on average). It doesn't run all the time, and we've had as many as 4 tree frogs (eastern grays) hanging on the sides or underneath the cover. We don't use a lot of chemicals, mild chlorine only. I was rather taken aback, as I've never seen tree frogs out and about in our yard before. We've had the hot tub for 10 years and I don't ever remember seeing the frogs before.

They are very entertaining to watch, especially when they take off swimming. My husband will toss them back in the shrubs, but the little frogs keep coming back.

It has been a very hot, humid and rainy summer for us in Western Illinois and of course underneath the cover it's a wonderfully humid environment.

[Greenlove]

Where can I buy the moths that this article mentions? I'm trying to keep their diet exciting for them.

[Greenlove]

John,
Would just like some clarification. In your article under feeding, it says to use vitamin powder and calcium, but to use them at different times because the calcium will degrade components and inhibit uptake of some of the vitamins. Then under "Raising eggs, tadpoles and froglets, it says to mix them. I'm alternating the supplements because that seems to be the consensus. Can you please clarify what you mean for me, (the newbie), and all the future newbies that will read this article. Thank you for writing this, it has been very educational.

[Sandi]

I wanted to say thank you for the valuable information I've collected from this blog. My daughter found a little mostly frozen frog on the outside window ledge of a Dairy Queen (it gets about 30-40 F at night). She scooped her up and brought her home with us. After some investigating, we determined that she is a Gray Tree Frog. As I used to keep vivariums in the past, I had an idea of what is required, but needed more 'species specific' info. Which I found plenty of here!! So she's set up in her new home, getting settled. We're trying some waxworms but may go out for some wingless fruit flies.
I hope she survives and takes well to her new home. So wish us luck!!

[Kameron]

i have two baby gray tree frogs proboly about 4 months i was planing on breeding them next year. and in the breeding section it says to stop feeding them for 3 months during the cooling period will that kill my frogs becuase i raised these from the wild when i found them in my pool so i am very attacthed and dont want to loose them. and also are the females going to die after they lay the egg.