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    Default Re: Red eyed tree frog pale skin

    I don't know the origin, I did however turn down wild caught frogs before i bought these ones. They came from Pets Unlimited, which I don't believe use wild caught suppliers but they didn't know for sure. I have been dusting the crickets every feeding with calcium and reptile vitamins, and calcium with d3 once a week. I have been feeding them crickets under 1/2 inch.
    I have one of the exo terra rotary hydrometer which was reading 80%, but I used a handheld meter with a wand probe that we use for measuring relative humidity in our rink and it was reading 75% at 75 degrees. I have been trying to keep the tank in that range, however it seems to be rising on its own, I may have to move the tank as it is beside my Veiled Chameleon tank which has a mister on for 1 minute every 1.5 hours. SO perhaps some of the humidity is floating over from her tank.
    I stopped misting the tank other than watering the plant leaves once a day.

    I did find 2 solid poops when I cleaned the tank out yesterday (removed all the fake plants and washed them) one looked alittle grey the other was much darker so I believe they were from both frogs.

    The frog i am worried about also got into the calcium powder in the cricket dish a few times (i have since made sure no dust is in the cup now) could that have hurt his skin?

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    Default Re: Red eyed tree frog pale skin

    Shocking that they don't know for sure. Good pet shops should know about their animals and ideally breed them themselves, something I'd like to see more of.

    I'd watch with the supplements, not to over do them. Most standard supplements if you use every feed with tree frogs might harm them, once a week for adults or twice for subs should do. I use Repashy's Calcium Plus LoD for my Greens everytime and have had good results but this is more balanced out so it can be used every feed.

    Just cut down on the misting if it's going to high but these hygrometers can be really inaccurate in my experience and your eyes might be your best bet. As long as the tank doesn't look wet then you should be fine, with most frogs keep them moist but not soaking wet.

    I'm not sure if that will cause issues but I'd say you're just overthinking things and I'm the same at first but after a month you'll start to relax. I'd recommend AVS popular tree frogs if you're interested in a good read about this species.

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