Suicidal White's TreeF.?

[Crystal6]

Just to clarify..are you saying not to use rainwater? And to whom was the question intented for? I wasn't sure about the rain water and am curious.
I myself use my tap water, but it's from a well from springs and it's very clean around here, little or no polution and full of natural minerals. There are very strict laws in the area and we are not allowed to use anything with gas or oil on the lake at all and toxic spills of any kind are taken very seriously.

Amazing. The pollution where I live is pretty bad so I don't use rain water. Back when I had Woodfrogs I used to use the lake water though. (Because I wasn't sure which minerals/chemicals they did/didn't need.)

I used spring water, OR I boil regular water, OR I treat it with a solution to rid of it chlorine. Lately it's just been spring water but I've used all of those methods with little problem.

[charlamanda]

Amazing. The pollution where I live is pretty bad so I don't use rain water. Back when I had Woodfrogs I used to use the lake water though. (Because I wasn't sure which minerals/chemicals they did/didn't need.)

I used spring water, OR I boil regular water, OR I treat it with a solution to rid of it chlorine. Lately it's just been spring water but I've used all of those methods with little problem.

WOW I am surprised you have that much polution since you mentioned you are in the middle of nowhere, that's aweful and sorry about that! I think your water choices are fine, I just don't understand what happened to your poor frogs. Sadly without a necropsy you may never know what happened, but I hope if you decide to get any more frogs they do better than these.
Maybe you can try another breed that is hardier, like Gray Tree Frogs. I just love mine and from what I understand they are very easy and hardy tree frogs, not to mention very entertaining and wonderful tame pets. I have 13 now and a entire pool full of tadpoles, I'd love to send them, but I am still waiting to hear from the Pa Fish and Game Comission on that issue. If you wre closer I'd just drive them over.
Are you in Canada or US? I will check with the Pa F & G Comission about crossing states and country borders too.
I know that there are several websites that are linked and or reccomended maybe you can try ordering a new frog/frogs from there. Best of luck.

[Crystal6]

WOW I am surprised you have that much polution since you mentioned you are in the middle of nowhere, that's aweful and sorry about that! I think your water choices are fine, I just don't understand what happened to your poor frogs. Sadly without a necropsy you may never know what happened, but I hope if you decide to get any more frogs they do better than these.
Maybe you can try another breed that is hardier, like Gray Tree Frogs. I just love mine and from what I understand they are very easy and hardy tree frogs, not to mention very entertaining and wonderful tame pets. I have 13 now and a entire pool full of tadpoles, I'd love to send them, but I am still waiting to hear from the Pa Fish and Game Comission on that issue. If you wre closer I'd just drive them over.
Are you in Canada or US? I will check with the Pa F & G Comission about crossing states and country borders too.
I know that there are several websites that are linked and or reccomended maybe you can try ordering a new frog/frogs from there. Best of luck.

I'm near Canada but not in it. Anyway, I DO have more White's Treefrogs, they're just Indonesian. (Though... having a few common living frogs it better then rare dead ones so... what am I complaining about?)

As for the polution, I'm not sure about the rain water but I know our pond has it pretty badly. I used to find leopard tree frogs and wood frogs there all the time. Now they have all disappeared. (I haven't been able to find eggs there in the last few years either. I had to find the spring peeper ones in a ditch instead. )

[charlamanda]

I'm near Canada but not in it. Anyway, I DO have more White's Treefrogs, they're just Indonesian. (Though... having a few common living frogs it better then rare dead ones so... what am I complaining about?)
***Good point, but it's ok to complain, a loss is a loss reguardless if you have other pets or not!!
As for the polution, I'm not sure about the rain water but I know our pond has it pretty badly. I used to find leopard tree frogs and wood frogs there all the time. Now they have all disappeared. (I haven't been able to find eggs there in the last few years either. I had to find the spring peeper ones in a ditch instead. )

***From what I have read frogs are especially sensitive to pollution. When studies are done of waterways for pollution they check for frogs. If there are many deformaties in the froglets, since they will show signs of this before other native species of the particular pond/lake/river etc., they can usually tell just from that there is some pollution.
This may explain why there are many species of frogs disappearing from your area. Sad and makes me angry!!