He is cute, I like frog. I saw one in the yard last year, but I don't know what happen to him this year.

Awe, I love frogs. Here are some ideas.

Green tree frogs eat a variety of insects and fish in the wild. It is important to vary your frog's diet for a good balanced diet. Use gut-loaded crickets, spiders, tadpoles, guppies, and worms. Gut-loaded crickets are crickets that are fed a specialized cricket diet to cleanse their systems and add vitamins. It is important that your frog is getting the proper amount of vitamins for optimum health. We recommend a water soluble vitamin supplement or coating the crickets in a powered vitamin once per week.

I use gut loaded crickets to feed my geckos and anoles but they are much too big for the frog. I bought him some pinheads but they don't live long enough to feed. I couldn't bear feeding him guppies or tadpoles. That would be like eating his cousins! lol Can I use Repti-cal and Herp-vit to dust the frog's food? I'm going to have to get a bigger tank for him. I just dug up whatever was in the garage. I love frogs and kept a Southern Leopard frog for over a year before I finally let him go but the tree frogs are more delicate. Do I need to get a UV light like the ones I use for my lizards?
Thanks,
Karyn

He is a cutie Karyn!

OMG He is ADORABLE!!! I absolutely love frogs!! I have a tree frog tat. He looks like he could be a male green tree frog judging by the yellow on him..they don't always have the stripe down the side, and their color changes a lil when dealing with stress, and dif moods. Also may be a white-lipped tree frog. What is the size? I know you said pinheads, but is he under or over 2"?

I want to get some gray tree frogs for my yard, now that I have a pond..well, almost completely set up lol. ANd all the brugs and other plants, I think they would like it here. But they were extirpated in my county, and fish & wildlife says it's illegal to have them here, which I dont understand. Wouldn't they want them to become established here again? All the damn building..argh I'm not gonna get started. NJ is stupid. I'll have to settle for some spring peepers if I can find them when I go in the woods, lol. I would love to be laying in bed, smelling the brugs and listening to frog calls :)

I will send you some geckos Karyn! With the Amber rose cuttings, I inadvertenly sent some plant to CO that had a Gecko in them--she was thrilled-bought a aquarium and spent lots of $$$ at pet store--. After 3 years he is still surviving. The package was in the mail over 5 days and he did well!!! PO did not squash him like the packages recently sent

O man Linda, I'm jealous!! You can send me a hitch-hiking critter anytime, lol.

Daniella he's only about 1 1/2" and kind of a fatty. He's really cute. His eyes are dark but there's a ring of yellow skin around them. His belly is pale yellow and his back is green. Someone told me to try little worms so I'm going to get some tiny meal and blood worms. Now that it's warming up outside I should be able to find some small insects. I'm going to have loads of little frogs and toads this spring. We neglected to drain the pool cover again so there's about 6" of water and it's probably full of frog and toad eggs that will be hatching soon. The last time we forgot to drain the cover we had thousands of tadpoles and I made DH help me rescue all of them before the pool company came to open it for the season. Why don't they want tree frogs reintroduced? That doesn't make sense. There's so much construction in Montgomery County. They'll build anywhere they can find space. Thankfully there's no construction near my house. I'm next to a nature center and surrounded on 3 sides by protected park property. One of the last spawning streams in MD for brown trout runs through here. Yea for the brown trout! lol

Linda I'd love a gecko or two nestled in with the brugs : ) Just let me know so I'll be careful opening it. That is of course as long as the USPS doesn't do it for me. lol
Karyn

Karyn, your froggy is adorable. It's amazing how small they are with such detail.

Theresa

Good thing my daughter wasnt there. She loves critters. She caught a corn snake last year, took it to our farmers auction the next day and sold it for 20.00. Not bad for 12. Summer Loves anything that moves, you name it shes probably had it. Iguana, turtles, Guini pigs, goats chickens, snakes(lost in the house) in a funny story to me. LOL

The tree frogs they have at our local pet store are in cage with a small live tree and one of those clamp on lamps. They have a flat dish in the bottom with water I guess for humidity. I'll do some more looking. I found that on a tree frog site earlier. He is so cute!

Here is a place I found for care of tree frogs. Not sure if thats what yours is but they look similar.

Here is a link that might be useful: tree frog care

Karyn, do you think I can leave a tree frog loose in my back yard? I saw tree frogs are being offer at one of the local pet store, but I thought better get some opinion from you.

THanks for that link Kisty. Honglee I wouldn't release a frog from a pet store into the yard. If you can find frogs outside there shouldn't be a problem relocating in your yard.
Karyn

Karyn, are you going to keep him in the GH? I bet he'd love it! I would feed him medium sized gutloaded crickets. Also the crickets should be dusted with a calcium and multivitamin supplement a couple of times a week.
Fruit flies, houseflies, moths, ants & other buggies too. You can try setting up a live fly trap.
You'd be surprised how big of a bug those lil guys can eat, lol. They may be small, but they eat big. If he is a green tree frog, which the size is right..they are not picky eaters. He may be stressed a lil at first and not eat right away, may have to grab a bug with some tweezers and rub it by his mouth to get him to eat.

Hong, if you want frogs in your yard, def go out and find some wild ones yourself, do NOT buy them from a pet store and release them. If the wild frogs like your yard, they will stay. Do you have a water source in your yard?

Hey Karyn..how's the lizard doing? Still in the GH?

Daniella

I think I'll put the tank in the GH but not let him loose in there. It looks like a green tree frog except his belly is yellow instead of white but it says that they can have color variations. The box he was in probably came up through Miami. I caught the lizard that escaped in the GH and he's in a tank inside with a buddy that came home with the frog. I was afraid that it would get out of the GH during the day and freeze at night so they will remain in the tank until it's warm 24/7. It looks like I can use the supplements for the frog that I use for my geckos, sugar gliders and anoles. At least I don't have to buy anymore. With the amount of crickets that I go through I should find a way to breed them. There's probably a whole colony somewhere in the house made up of all the escapees yuck! lol
Karyn

I love tree frogs!!! He is so cute .. I have one lose in the house somewhere.. I can hear him but can't find him.. I guess he hitched a ride on a plant..LOL I have seen several outside already but our temps are suppose to be 34* Sunday night they better snuggle up..LOL I guess I will be haulin plants back in and hope for the best on the ones already in the ground ..pi**es me off..

I live in the middle of the city, there are no field around for at least thirty miles. Bakersfield develope so fast, it seem like houses grow overnight on any bare dirt. I sometime see bull frog in the park, but not tree frog. You guys are so lucky get to see natural habitat. Maybe I can catch a tree frog when I take vacation in Florida this summer.

This is one of my fav pics it was last summer..That frog landed right on her head.. She didn't panic til it got stuck on the back of her head... I LMAO!!

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That is too cute, lol. Karyn I asked the pet store and they said you can use the same powder for iguranas and lizards and frogs.

Karyn the male green tree frogs tend to have that yellow on them, especially on the lower lip. Your crickets arent breeding on their own? I'm surprised.

Hong, you shouldnt do that though, bring one home from somehwere else, like Florida. For one, it wont be happy, probably wont survive. If it isnt native to your area, it can cause a whole bunch of problems. If it started breeding it could change the ecosystem, perhaps even become a pest..eat food the natives need, natives wont get enough, there could be die-off..a whole big chain reaction. Please dont import. Where do you live? There may be species in your area you just aren't aware of.

OMG Chena, I love that pic. Last time you posted it I thought it was a fake frog, lmao. Too cute!

ok time to ask, WTF... do you do for a living Karyn!!! why so many shipments, are you a Local Nursery or what??

Obviously you are a horticulturist, but I dont know, to what endevour??

Am I the only one in the dark?

Barry my DH is in the wholesale floral business. We also have a small farm where we grow mainly flowers for cutting and some seasonal plants as a side business. The flowers go directly to the wholesale business, so that's easy. By profession I'm an orthopedic PA, absolutely nothing to do with plants. I took a leave of absence in 2000. Gee I guess I'm not planning on going back to work. lol It gives me more time to play with my flowers : )
Karyn

What about you Barry? What do yo do for a living??

daniellalell, I've never thought of that. I guess I won't be stealing a tree frog from Florida then. Thanks daniellalell the warning.