Captive Or Wild Caught

[treefrogsrules]

hey everybody, its been forever since ive been on here(a few months, but thats forever to me) i thought i might as well catch up on everything thats been going on with people and the website and ask a few questions............................So for the first question i could think of is..............do you think just because the whites tree frog i special ordered is captive or wild he is quite large ive heard if its large it is wild caught.....i was told i was going to get a captive bred baby but they said they sent a bigger one since they didnt have babies so what do you think wild caught or captive bred this petstore gives me all kinds of discounts since im there every day almost just for the heck of it and they have always been good to me

[wesleybrouwer]

Hard to tell, a proper bred captive bred animal can also be as big as an animal in the wild,
on the other hand, wild animals can be ranging in size as well.

The only thing i can think of, is that almost all WC frogs will have marks on them,
at least more then a CB one.
So checking for (healed) injuries might give you an idea about it's origin.
Letting it check for parasites etc. also gives you an insight,
WC animals tend to have more intestal worms/parasites then CB frogs.
But it is no fool-proof science, just what i noticed with my own WC animals and their offspring i got out of them.

[bshmerlie]

As far as I understand it the Whites tree frogs are from Australia and since they do not allow the export of their animals chances are your frog will be captive bred. Anybody correct me if I'm wrong.

[wesleybrouwer]

If it is the Litoria caurulea they also occur in Indonesia and new guinea .

[Leefrogs]

And I've gotten word that they are in the WILDS of Florida. Along with the Cuban unleashed in the wild by irrisponsible owners.

Kinda like the flock of African grey parrots in San diego. Enough out there they breed.