Giant Waxie Monkey Tree Frog Identification

[Dj Quik]

ok sorry for the late response, my girlfriend was the one who originally posted this thread, and she forgot her password, plus she messed up my user name so i guess it worked out alright.

anyway, regarding the frog. although this is not what we had intended on getting into, she will not be neglected. the tank pictured is being used for quarantine, so it will not be permanent, however if there is anything i can do to change the current set up i would love to know, i have added a uvb and i will get some better plants and add a background. she has been sitting on the ground since i got her which i'm assuming is not common so it is either due to being stressed from a new home or from the lack of a proper setup. in a month, when she is done with quarantine, i will have a custom built enclosure of the appropriate size and soon after i will be looking for another frog. i love working with not so common reptiles so this frog is very welcome in my collection.

also im not sure if poison has posted this or not but i guess he was jealous of my awesome frog so he went out and copied me and got one as well.
he likes to follow in my footsteps

[Lija]

hahaha, Poison, would you please post a pic of your beautiful boy and his awesome set up please lol

for your tank if it is temporary i would do following:
take everything up and place it on a side so it is vertical, then papertowels on a bottom or felt carpet, then different sized branches, some plastic plants, cover 3 sides for her to feel safe. i would attach somehow lamps so they would shine through mesh from a top of the side, but not from the top, as some glass is filtering UVB.

by the way if you want to get her a company you better do it now, i doubt they will be available later, as soon as all imported frogs are sold, they're gone until the next year hopefully, but might be not available next year too.

who else do you have?

[Dj Quik]

ok i will do that, do you have any pictures of good examples of a set up for these guys?
i will search online for another but i dont know how much luck i'll have, i found this one at an expo.

the other animals i keep are
0.1.0 Argentine tegu
1.3.0 leopard geckos
1.1.0 woma pythons
1.1.0 bearded dragon
0.1.0 colombian boa
1.0.0 leachanius
0.0.1 blue tongue skink
0.0.1 gargoyle
0.0.1 hognose
0.0.1 black mexican king snake
as well as a few species of tarantula, 2 guinea pigs and 5 dogs.

[Mentat]

Welcome to FF! Lija has given you good advice. You can convert your tank to a vertical by measuring, cutting, and gluing a piece of clear polycarbonate sheet (Home Depot) to bottom area of opening to help hold substrate in. Then you get a screen window kit (same store) and build a screen to cover the rest of opening. Only thing is, light must now come from front and not through the glass. Good luck !

[poison]

Heres my setup. He was is a glass enclosure but considering he is WC, he is not use to glass and he was trying to jump out of the enclosure through the glass. So I swiched out my atb and moved him in her enclosure.

http://i1261.photobucket.com/albums/...ps49a89d53.jpg

He was also spending alot of time on the ground yesterday but now that hes in the new enclosure he has yet to even see the ground.

[Dj Quik]

ya that looks much better than mine, i may end up building one this weekend rather than converting it to save me some trouble.

[Lija]

hey you have a zoo too!!!!! yay! i need to update my signature, i do have leachie too, a female baby GT, crazy nippy baby of a size of young crestie lol that looks more like a balloon because she eats like a piglet lol woma and hognoses are on my very much want but not gonna happen list

need to take pics of my enclosure, i have sauvagii right now and pics of parts of their home.

edit - oh and I have curly hair tarantula technically not mine, it is my younger daughters first pet, you know normal kids have hamsters for a first pet, she wanted tarantula, but we do have hamsters in a freezer lol

[exasperatus2002]

Awesome find! Im in the process on designing a terrarium for some myself.

[Dj Quik]

ok so im planning on building the enclosure this weekend, it will be 3 feet long 4 feet tall and 2 feet wide, i've been wanting to make a enclosure like this for a while but im worried that the humidity will be too high because of the live plants mixed with a sealed enclosure, however i dont see it being too much of a problem if i use some sort of dry substrate with leaf litter on top of it.

hey you have a zoo too!!!!! yay! i need to update my signature, i do have leachie too, a female baby GT, crazy nippy baby of a size of young crestie lol that looks more like a balloon because she eats like a piglet lol woma and hognoses are on my very much want but not gonna happen list

ours is a Gran Terra and nu Ana cross, but he is very nice. he has never showed me any aggression. the womas i just picked up this weekend as well, but i've been wanting some for a while and i cant wait to work with them

Awesome find! Im in the process on designing a terrarium for some myself.

i'd love to hear plans if you have any, seeing as i've never dealt with an animal like this i feel like a noob

[poison]

ok i will do that, do you have any pictures of good examples of a set up for these guys?
i will search online for another but i dont know how much luck i'll have, i found this one at an expo.

the other animals i keep are
1.3.0 leopard geckos
1.1.0 woma pythons
1.1.0 bearded dragon
0.1.0 colombian boa
1.0.0 leachanius
0.0.1 blue tongue skink
0.0.1 gargoyle
0.0.1 hognose
0.0.1 black mexican king snake
as well as a few species of tarantula, 2 guinea pigs and 5 dogs.

Tegu?

[Dj Quik]

oh ya and a tegu, ill add that

[poison]

also im not sure if poison has posted this or not but i guess he was jealous of my awesome frog so he went out and copied me and got one as well.
he likes to follow in my footsteps

Hey, whos the one who showed you them? You know ive been wanting waxy's for a long time.