Hi all I'm knew to the forum and look forward to learning from all of you on how to maintain my newly setup terrarium, w/ Red-Eyed Leaf Frog inhabitant.

Little background on what is quickly becoming an obsession to me.

2 weekends ago I took my family to the lake. My oldest daughter 6 was catching some baby frogs still going through their metamorphosis. (Still had their tales) She wanted to take them home. I promised her that if we left these here in the wild that I would look into getting her a pet frog this was 6/23/2013 . That Monday I bought exo-terra 18x18x24 rainforest terrarium kit received it on Wednesday and set it up . I have spent all my time at work researching to the point where I have not gotten any work done at all. LOL

After setting it up I monitored the temp and humidity in the terrarium Thursday, Friday & Saturday it was holding steady at 80 degrees with 75% humidity. This was using just a regular incandescent light bulb 60 watts I think. So I took the plunge on Sunday yes this past Sunday! Went to the local pet store where they had the red eyed had been researching all week.

Bought a UV bulb to replace the incandescent and a red bulb for night temp and viewing. Bought some terrarium moss, a piece of tree bark wood and bought a pesticide sprayer to use as a my misting unit which i filled with 1 gallon of distilled water. (Cleaned and rinsed thoroughly)

After changing the bulb i noticed my tanks humidity had gone down to about 60. Now the only difference i can see is we were home with the AC running while Thursday - Saturday my wife and kids were at my mothers all day until we got home. AC not running during that time. The frog when purchased was a vibrant green.

Now this is where it gets a little dicey. My daughter caught a baby praying mantis and decided to stick it in the terrarium. Well last night when RIO (the name of my daughters Red-Eyed Leaf Frog) woke up and long story short ate it. (really cool to watch) Few minutes later it ate 2 of the 6 baby crickets we bought at the same time. After each one RIO ate it would go back to sleep is that normal?

This morning when changing RIO's water bowl I misted and took notice of the temp and humidity. The temp jumped to 90 degrees while the humidity had stayed at 60% and RIO well he/she is not so vibrant instead he/she is a DARK green.

Should I have some concern about this? All in all RIO seems ok, breathing doesn't seem raced or slowed. The temperature worried me so I unscrewed the red bulb before I left for work.

So I'm concerned that either its an issue with my humidity and temp or the fact that he ate that nymph praying mantis.

He is as dark as the one in this post. http://www.frogforum.net/tree-frogs/...een-color.html

Thanks in advance for any insight you all can share.

Juice