purchasing new RETF

[Kurt]

Maybe something along the lines of "Lights are only needed for one or two purposes. One, they are needed to keep live plants, if you choose to do so, and two, you may want them for better viewing. Other than that they are not needed. Red-eye leaf frogs are extremely nocturnal and do not require lights."
How's that?

I don't keep any lights on my red-eyes and I have three enclosure of them, the adults, froglets, and tadpoles. I have lights on the dart frog, because he has plants in his enclosure. The box turle, because he requires it. The White's and Colorado River toads, because they are display animals in the living room.

[Jumpshot724]

I don't keep any lights on my red-eyes and I have three enclosure of them, the adults, froglets, and tadpoles. I have lights on the dart frog, because he has plants in his enclosure. The box turle, because he requires it. The White's and Colorado River toads, because they are display animals in the living room.

You keep Colorado River Toads as display animals over Red Eyed Tree Frogs????

Am I missing something....?? Lol

[Kurt]

My Colorado River Toad is a large impressive animal. My adult red-eyes comfortably in a ten-gallon. Since the toad is huge, he gets the thirty-gallon.

[Kurt]

And besides red-eyes are not good display animals. They sleep all day.

[John]

They sleep all day.

That is why it's very hard to get decent photos of these frogs at zoos! Every time I see them they are all huddled up on a leaf.

[Kurt]

I noticed my froglets are much more active than my adults. They wake up sooner than the adults.
I have never seen this species in a zoo, unless you count the one I worked in, which technically wasn't a zoo, it was and still is a science museum. We had one on display and all it did was sleep all day. Like I said, a lousy display animal.

[Jumpshot724]

Yea but....Colorado River Toads are so....ugly lol. Very true about the RETFs though, always asleep whenever I see them.



As far as plants look into Pothos (I got mine a year ago from Home Depot....didn't even know what it was until 2 days ago) you actually have to try to kill them lol. They'll root in ANYTHING, including Cocofiber, dirt, gravel, and just plain water. Not only that but they grow very fast (I trim mine back about once every 2-3 months). They don't have flowers, but they have very large green leafs in the shape of a Spade from a deck of cards, RETFs love big leaves. Also this plants grows kind of like a vine, so you can drape the vines over background pieces etc to make it grow up instead of sideways.

As far as lighting, you don't need it. But I use a SunGlo bulb from ExoTerra during the day, and a NightGlo bulb from ExoTerra at night. The lighting will really help your plants, the frogs don't need it but it will make your tank look MUCH nicer....I highly suggest the NightGlo bulbs for night, it makes the tank look like it's being bathed in soft moonlight.

[wesly2009]

so my next question is is it possible to give them too much light and if so what kind of plants can i place in the terrarium with lower light requirements.

[Kurt]

Plastic. Seriously, when it comes to plants I am almost completely clueless. I have some bromeiliads and I have had Java moss, any other plant I have had has died on me.
I don't think it is possible to give red-eyes too much light, but they do prefer darkness to light.