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[mcap]

I'm Mark.
Here's my frog Peab, who lives in an 18x18x24 tank. I have another 18x18x18 tank but it only has plants right now.

sitting by the pool:

and here's her tank:

[John]

Welcome to the forum MCAP. That's one huge White's Treefrog. Is it always brown?

[Kurt]

Welcome aboard. Nice frog.

[mcap]

Occasionally she turns green, usually at night.
Here she is at the vet, trying to escape by climbing me.

[John]

Why did you take her to the vet?

[mcap]

I took her to get checked out by the vet. Among other things, they checked her for parasites via a stool sample. She was full grown when I got her early in 2008. The vet visit cost more than the frog!

[Kurt]

The vet visit cost more than the frog!

They usually do, unless of course you brought a Colorado River toad, strawberry dart frog, or yellow-spotted tree toad.

[mcap]

Now I remember why I took her to the vet: she did not, and still does not, eat very much even though she looks huge. When I first got her, she would eat 2-3 medium crickets twice a week, leaping and climbing branches to hunt them down. Any more and she would not touch them. Eventually, she would eat only 3 crickets per week, but she never really got skinny. The vet said she looks healthy, so I don't worry about it.

I got the dubia roaches in January and for a while she would eat 3 or more medium to large ones per week. Pretty soon, she cooled to them as well and now she eats maybe 1 or 2 small-medium dubia and 1 cricket per week.

I feed her a zophobas no more than once every 2-3 weeks, which she has never turned down. They seem to be like candy to her.

[John]

At what temperature do you keep her? Perhaps it's a little cool and that would definitely minimise her appetite.

[mcap]

In the back left, there is a thermistor hanging from a wire. The heating comes from a ceramic heat emitter above the top center near the front of the tank, along with a black heating pad that is stuck to the back wall at bottom right. There is also foam pressed against the entire back of the tank to help keep the heat in.

I have the thermostat set to 81 F with a 10 F degree night drop. It gets quite a bit warmer than that near the top front of the tank, but she would have to climb the door to reach that area.
Here is the new setup. The previous tank picture is pretty old.

[John]

According to our man Kurt, 81 is a little on the low end. He has 85 in his article for Day time temperature.

Nice setup btw.

[Kurt]

Has the frog had a fecal float done? Maybe she has gastrointestinal parasites. Or maybe she just has food preferences, though most frogs don't.

Also, 81 F isn't bad. These frogs range over most of Australia and New Guinea and can be found in many kinds of eco-systems, from tropical rainforest, to blistering deserts, to temperate forests of Southeastern Australia. Mine seem to do fine in the mid to upper seventies.

[mcap]

I bumped it up yesterday to 83 degrees, still with a 10 F night drop. Perhaps it will go as high as 85.

The vet said she found some minute amounts of fauna in the stool sample, but I don't remember what type. However, she said that these were typical and not a concern. Maybe I can go back and read the report again.

Thanks for the tips!

[Kurt]

The fauna is most likely worms or protazoa, both parasites. If the frog becomes overly stressed or sick, its parasites can bloom. I try to keep my animals parasite free.