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    Question Attempting to breed red eye tree frogs (photos)

    Hello All!
    I'm CJ and I'm new here to the forum. I have 12 Red Eye Tree Frogs. 7 Females / 5 males. I also just set up my very first 80 GAL. EXO TERRA LIVE VIVARIUM / RAIN CHAMBER COMBINATION. I put my red eyes in it 3 days ago and discovered 1 mating pair on the first night and 3 mating pairs total 2 nights ago. Im new to breeding them but set up the combination rainchamber / live vivarium for them to lay eggs and prosper. Currently Im sitting at 80% Humidity and 75 degrees. I want them to lay eggs but never had any luck in the past. Suggestions please!

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    Default Re: Attempting to breed red eye tree frogs (photos)

    I kept all kinds of frog eggs but never actully breed frogs, I save frog eggs from my pool every year. mainly Grey Tree Frogs. I had a 10 gallon tank and kept the eggs in there with a bubble filiter and plants, rocks, and slime from the pool. And i hatched about a thousand tadpoles but only about 30 of them made it to a tree frog stage. released all but one and thats where i got mine from.

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    Default Re: Attempting to breed red eye tree frogs (photos)

    also you make my frog tank look like a little kids did mine. how do you get your to look so good? Mine has a glass dish for is water he plays in and bark, moss, and large sticks.

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    Default Re: Attempting to breed red eye tree frogs (photos)

    TO JESSICA (TUBBY0512): Im sorry if I insulted your terrarium building techniques. I was just at a state where I wanted to go from a terrarium to a live vivarium. Knowing the difference between the two will IN FACT change your actions/reactions that your frog previously had. When I had just plain coconut fiber / moss substrate and a water dish there was just the average life of the frog. I didn't get much noises at all. As soon as started to heavily mist them I noticed reactions. MUCH MORE PLAYFULL. NOISES. I got really annoyed having to open the terrarium and mist them once or twice a day so i bought a automatic mister (EXO TERRA MONSOON MISTER) VALUE AVERAGE $100 USD. Once I bought the mister a herpetologist recommended that my frogs should be in a vivarium to carry out their life happily in my tank. I learned the difference between the two and took out all my fake plants and replaced with live...aded EXO TERRA TREE FERN SUBSTRATE/ EXO TERRA EASY DRAIN SUBSTRATE (looks like lava rock) so i don't flood my live plants. This was a year long experience making the change and to do it successfully learning the proper substrates...making it rain throughout all evenings without flooding my plants while maintaining breeding weather for my red eyes. It truely was an expensive process to go from a terrarium to a live vivarium i went from spending about 500 dollars on my terrarium to about 1,500 dollars on my vivarium...but its well worth it once you see your frogs being more active and calling more often and showing a new personality. I love them very much and its nice to see them starting to mate. Maybe I will have eggs and frog lets soon and i will then call myself an advanced tree frog guy. HAHA. Really its just experience and how much money you are willing to spend to make your frogs happy with the most natural environment they can be in. If you want tips on how to set up a vivarium. I am MORE than willing to help you step by step.

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    Well I have a Grey Tree Frog not a tropical red-eyed tree frogwhich will need more TLC. I did recearch on how to take care of the frog before I kept him because I didn't want him to die. It said a moss bedding(which I get outside). I know many people say not to get any food or anything from outside because it could be toxic but I don't have anything toxic around or in my yard. He has bark he hids on and he loves to hang upsided down in his tank(which scares me because i'm thinking he is going to fall to his death). and large sticks for him to limb on and a pool where he can sit in. I raised tadpoles to frogs but released them but 1. I had a pool of water in with the baby tree frogs but 6 of them drowned so i just put a pool in his tank because he is older and i was afraid he would drown like his sibalns did. Well he hasn't drowned yet which is great. how do you get your tank to look so good?!?!

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    Ok if the frog is from your local area.. Id say getting live outdoor food in your area would not be a bad idea but rather a GOOD idea. I say this because when i was a certified wildlife rehabber (certified in small mammals / non migratory birds / reptiles & amphibians for the state of Connecticut we ONLY caught life local insects using insect nets in large fields....we came back with many varieties of flies/ grasshoppers/ caterpillars/ moths. I don't know why people would suggest going against the frogs natural diet. As i stated before all my plants are LIVE so that may add to the nice looking part. I have water that covers the whole bottom of the vivarium and one corner of it has raised exoterra drainage clay substrate and on top of that is the exoterra tree fern substrate which will SUPPORT and SUSTAIN plant life. Just make sure the tree fern substrate is above the water line as shown in the photo so you don't flood the plants. I also have a live hanging plant over the water portion for my red eyes to lay their eggs on if they choose to do so. Its actually hanging off the top edge of my tank. so when it rains it will just drain through the hanging plastic planter. Then the PVC piping is the rain system which i only turn on at night when im asleep. (ONLY DURING THE BREEDING SEASON. I wont have it rain otherwise....ill just use my automatic mister and ZOO MED fogger.) I hope this answers your questions.

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    wow thank you. you are the fisrt person that agrees with me about feeding my frog food from outside!! the way i see it is that he would of been born out there ut i saved him from my pool so i think i should feed him what is in my yard because thats where he belongs but he's my pet. and i'll have a mayjor redue of his tank in the spring. rather not dig through snow.

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