A Few Neighborhood Discoveries

[thejolta]

So I finally took everyone's advice and let Winston the toad go. I decided I couldn't handle the responsibility of two species in two separate tanks with my busy schedule. I let Winston go in the woods where I found him and am crossing my fingers that he doesn't bring any sort of germs to the toad population (I'm sorry I won't do it again).

Anyways the little girl tree frog (who I've finally come up with a name for: Artemis -- named after artemis from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) has really grown over the last 3 weeks. She used to be 1/2 the male GTF's size but when I came back from vacation they're almost impossible to tell apart. It's no surprise to me though as she's always been the most active one jumping around and eating all the moths the second I dropped my night's catch into the tank.

I'm working on building up there habitat and am going to have do most of it myself. So if anyone has any suggestions for diy perches and hides for tree frogs I'm all ears.

Also, the male (who I haven't named yet) has started calling more and more at night. I love it (at least I do at the moment since he hasn't woken me up yet). He always gets his throat all puffy and makes these short efforts at calling (almost like a puppy trying to sound tough lol). Anyways I downloaded an mp3 of their call that I play to inspire him to call, but it doesn't seem to work. Is there anything that you guys do that seems to induce calling for your frogs?

[into]

I don't have grey tree frogs, but Music and the sound of water gets both of my green tree frogs going... especially the Six Flags song "We Like to Party" and the Gummi Bear song on YouTube. Also when dumper (WTF) calls, they respond to him, but he doesn't respond back to them, he just likes to talk to himself.

It's crazy how they sound like little dogs. I always refer them as "barking" but the other night one of them was doing that beepy "quacking" sound that I've heard on all the audio clips on the internet. The two calls must have different meanings.

[thejolta]

Lol he doesn't really sound like a little dog. I was just describing it like that because when he chirps it reminds me of a puppy trying to bark like a big dog because it's only short and not really powerful. Thanks for the reply though and I love your pictures on here.

[JeffX]

I have those Tree Frogs all over the place around here. Luckily for me I have night lights out front that attract all of the insects and then in turn attract all of the frogs. I of course have to see multiple bats flying around too.

[Mattiez]

This weekend I was doing a bit of hiking and went to an animal rehabilitation center with a cute little nature center. They had a number of displays, and one of them was a single grey tree frog and a single american toad housed together. They both looked very happy and according to the naturalist have been together for awhile. They were of a very similar size. No way the toad could fit him in its mouth.

Now obviously the temp or humidity in the tank probably favored one species slightly over the other, but they were both local from that area (so at least to some degree have similar requirements, at least in terms of temp ). Realistically, many people I'm sure do mix species, and everybody appears happy. However, there are probably just as many instances if not more where they are unhappy and somebody gets eaten. To me, what it comes down to is if it is worth the risk, and to me, anything that results in a frog or toad dying is not worth the risk.