White Tree Frog Cycling

[Geofrog707]

Hey, I am going to get new White Tree frogs soon in a week or so hopefully. They are supposed to be babies when they come but I want to research everything I can about them before they get here. Anyway, I heard that they needed to be cycled if I wanted to breed them in a couple or so years? I was wondering if I needed to cycle them even though I lived in GA and the temperatures change on their own. It goes from cold to hot pretty fast here and vice versa. Or do the frogs need better changes? Thanks

[Kisa]

I don't know anything about cycling or breeding, but I just wanted to get this quick question out of the way. Are you using external heating sources for your frogs? Because if you plan on using lights or heating pads to help warm them up it should be pretty easy to control temperature, as long as they're in the proper place where there isn't a lot of draft.

[Geofrog707]

Yep, I use a lamp and a zoo-med heater. But the room they are in gets pretty chilly at night so I am worried about leaving them off once I get the frogs

[Kisa]

Yep, I use a lamp and a zoo-med heater. But the room they are in gets pretty chilly at night so I am worried about leaving them off once I get the frogs

I understand I get freaked out at night too with my White's. If you leave the heater on at night and get a night time bulb for them you won't have to worry about sacrificing heat, but you can't leave a daytime bulb on all night or they'll get confused. White's won't come out of hiding until they're sure it's dark. I use (on my young White's tank) a zoo med heater on the side, a daytime blue bulb and a night time infrared bulb. At night I just turn the day time bulb off and that drops their temperature to about 70 or 71, which is good for White's. On my big guy's tank I use an Exo Terra 2.0 and 5.0, both 26 watts and a medium exo terra undertank heater. At night I switch the 2.0 and 5.0 for two 26 watt night glo moonlight bulbs and that drop the temperature to 70-71 too.

You heating and lighting sometimes depends on the type or tank you're using, have you decided on that yet?

[Geofrog707]

Yep, I have. I have a medium Exo-Terra tank (it was the rainforest kit) with a sun-glo (It was left over and I didn't want to spend too much on a new bulb when the other one kept the tank at night temps) and a bulb, and the zoo med heater. So almost the same as your other set up for your "Big guy" Although I do keep my heater at the bottom of the tank, like the directions recommended (or I thought they did), would the tank be warmer if I moved it to the side of the tank like it seems most people do...? Thanks so much for all your advice/help btw!

[Kisa]

Yep, I have. I have a medium Exo-Terra tank (it was the rainforest kit) with a sun-glo (It was left over and I didn't want to spend too much on a new bulb when the other one kept the tank at night temps) and a bulb, and the zoo med heater. So almost the same as your other set up for your "Big guy" Although I do keep my heater at the bottom of the tank, like the directions recommended (or I thought they did), would the tank be warmer if I moved it to the side of the tank like it seems most people do...? Thanks so much for all your advice/help btw!

The advantage to having your tank heater mounted on the side of the tank is that it creates a good heat gradiant so that your frogs can choose what tempertaure they want to be. It's hard sometimes though because they don't always have the best adhesive and sometimes fall off of the side and bottom, I've used tape to secure mine to the side of my small tank. Do you have a compact top for the bulbs or are you using some other lamp set up?

And no problem, I'm always here to help, as well as any other White's owners out there. ^ ^ Feel free to ask any questions any time.