Couple of misc. questions

[Gentlemangorath]

So there have been a couple of things I've been wondering about in regards to my H. cinerea's condition, their tank, and overall just making things better for them and making them happier. I figured it'd be annoying to ask a bunch of different things in a handful of topics, so I'll just list what I've been wondering.

1) My frogs are typically a very dark shade of green during the day, and when it's lights off, they finally turn a brighter green. I understand that they are resting and that probably has something to do with it, but any idea what things I could try to tweak to see if they'd be more comfy? I also just added an background to one side, so they have to covered sides (just a note).

2) A question in regard to the first, I read somewhere that H. cineria don't necessarily need lighting, and one day when I accidentally left the light off, they seemed brighter in color, more active, and less skittish. So what would I have to take into consideration when deciding if it's a good idea to have lights off from time to time?

3) I've got two bottles of dechlorinator; Top fin brand and Fluker's with added aloe. I used the Top Fin when I had my Grays, but started using Fluker's with my greens. I notice that the Fluker's leaves a residue on the water dish, makes the water look kind of filmy, and gets a bit bubbly while filling up the dish with water+dechlorinator. I'm just wondering, is the aloe ok for the frogs, or was I misled by the semingly happy African Clawed Frog on the bottle?

[Bombina Bob]

Hi there
Green tree frogs will regularally turn brown,
many say they are stressed but they are
either cold or resting usually

i would say that green tree frogs do need lighting for natural day, night tine cycle. i use a 50 watt tropical heat
bulb and/or UV bulb that is 50 watts, if the frogs are continuously brown all the time, try a dimmer light, there are
a couple mad by fluker's and exo terra.

For the water dichlorinator, ive only used exo terra and Zilla dechlorinator, ive never had this sort of film residue
on my reptile dishes but it is normal for a small amount of bubbly foam to be on the surface of the water.

[Gentlemangorath]

I assumed as much for the coloring, I just wanted to be sure that I shouldn't be expecting that brighter green unless they're active. They're not BROWN, more of just a really dark foresty-green, but they get brighter at night time as mentioned. As for the dechlorinator, I'm not wondering about the film or the bubbly water really (those were just notes to show the difference between the topfin brand and the flukers+aloe). What I'm really wondering there is if the aloe in the dechlorinator is ok for my little guys. I know I've heard that additives can be harmful to frogs (i.e. the pain reliever in Neosporin), so I wanted to be sure that it's safe to continue using this. Thank you for the feedback though .