Clown Tree Frogs

[Wolst21LT]

ok thanks. there is a site called bigappleherp.com. i live in boise idaho so there arent any reptile stores near by so i have gotten a few things from this site such as a pair of red eyed tree frogs and a ball python and they seem to be healthy. they recently put an advertisment for buying clown tree frogs. in the description they have "captive bred babies born at our faculty" so i am assuming they are ok to buy. u should check the site out. they also have a shipment garuntee and an automatic reptile replacement if a DOA occurs. the animals they have given me are healthy.

[John]

I've checked that company out before. They say they breed a lot at their facility but frankly I don't believe it when it comes to the amphibians. At best I would think the amphibians were captive bred by someone else and then acquired by that company. But as Kurt said, captive breeding Clown Treefrogs is very rare indeed.

[Kurt]

Well, I just looked at their site and it says "We DO NOT under any circumstances sell wild caught reptiles or amphibians", yet they stock several species that are not generally bred in captivity. Frogs like gold treefrogs, Polypedates leucomystax, green treefrogs, Hyla cinerea, barking treefrogs, Hyla gratiosa, fire-bellied toads, Bombina orientalis, red & black walking frogs, Phrynomantis microps, and of course your clown treefrogs, Dendropsophus leucophyllatus. Also it says this with every frog they sell "Average Size Shipped (Captive Bred Babies Born At Our Facility) - 1" to 2". The pictures of P. leucomystax and P. microps are of thinned out frogs and that just screams out to me "WILD CAUGHT"! Another thing, they are very expensive, their prices are more than double than what I have paid those frog species.

So sorry to rain on your parade. If you do order from them, I would really love to know the results of the fecal float. If it tests positive for gastrointestinal parasites, then you can almost gurantee the animal was wild caught.