Comments on: White’s Tree Frog Habitat

By: Kathy Shoff

Kathy Shoff — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:41:18 +0000

Have a WTF for about 17 years, the same one. Here is the website I found most helpful to all the questions. I change his enviroment out every couple of years. He is a happy frog. I feed him one time a week, a pinkie or crickets. sometimes mealworms. they can eat moths, beetles too. Hope this helps. Kathy

White’s Tree Frog – FROGLAND! AllAboutFrogs.ORG

By: Kathy Shoff

Kathy Shoff — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:34:06 +0000

I copied and pasted this info on how to know the male from the female. Found in on a web site.

One commonly asked question has to do with how to tell Male White’s tree Frogs from Female ones. As far as I know this is pretty difficult to tell. First of all,the frog frog needs to be of “breeding” age to tell (about 1 year old). Males develop “nuptial pads” (puffy little pads on the place where their “thumbs” and “palms” meet) during the breeding season. I have heard from some that only males croak and sing also. Also, females tend to be larger than males, but bear in mind that size varies according to specific strains of White’s tree frogs, so this is a pretty unreliable test.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:03:32 +0000

I would suggest to get a heat lamp to bring up the temperature. I have a 30gal tall tank, half the tank it coconut husk substrate and the other half is a rain chamber. I’ve placed plants in the coconut husk to help bring up the humidity and my for my whites tree frogs to climb on. I have a green whites tree frog and a blue whites tree frog, there housed together. I don’t have a heat mat underneath but i do have to heat lamps, one is always on while the other is only for when it gets to cold.

Also having a heat mat underneath the tank, you need to have a thin layer of substrate so that the heat gets through. Having the heat mat will dry out the substrate, so keep it moist but not to moist, that will create mold.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:15:26 +0000

kathyrn, I think that’s your name, your wtf probably passed away because of the other frogs in the tank. only the same kinds of frogs should be put together in the same tank. because they each have different toxins on there skin that can be harmful to other frogs and sorry for your loss!

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:44:35 +0000

I have my terrium set up to get my whites tree frog but Im having a problem getting it up to temperature. We have the exo-terrium for rainforest and we have the heat mat underneath and we are using the coconut husks substrate stuff but it’s not going past 70 degrees. Do we have too much substrate in there, is that possible?

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:43:15 +0000

Do you have a recommendation for a good automatic mister for when we want to go away for 2-3 days? We find we need to mist with the pump bottle 2-3 times a day to maintain good humidity here. I have read not so positive reviews about the automatic mister by ZooMed.

By: Mariecharity31

Mariecharity31 — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:40:46 +0000

What wattage of bulb will maintain the 70-85 temp??

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:27:10 +0000

I have had my White’s frog for almost 4 years now and last night I found him dead.. About a week ago I had some mold on my waterfalland that’s all I can think of that could have possibly got him sick. I have two other frogs in there, a red-legged cuban walking frog and a chubby frog, and they both lived. Any ideas what happened to Hannibal? I have half of the cage with a waterfall in it and the other half is dirt with live plants.

By: Kathy Kroon

Kathy Kroon — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:50:37 +0000

Male frogs are smaller than females and they croak. Sometimes, my frog likes to be in the corner behind his water dish. I believe that little space is cozy for him. Whites tree frogs are not very active. If your frogs continue not to leave this location, and don’t eat, you may want to take them to a vet who treats exotic animals.

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:02:00 +0000

Hi! Is there any way to sex Whites? I inherited 2 out of a group of 6, they were breeders but we don’t know how to tell which one (or ones) are male/females.
I bought the tank the breeder kept them in, it’s a 20gal tall tank, bark on bottom covered by dirt & moss, a thick branch, and live pothos vine which has grown a LOT and is making it really look like a jungle in there. I keep the substrate fairly wet to provide water for the pothos as well as keep the humidity up, but let it get fairly dry before watering again.
I’ve only had them for about a week, but so far they just stay squished behind the water bowl in the back corner.