Hey guys, today we're gonna go over the care for the White's tree frog.
Now another name for this frog is the dumpy frog and the Australian giant green tree
frog. Now as far as their native location they come from the country of Australia,
Indonesia, and New Guinea. Now as far as their size they get about 4 to 6 inches
long, so they don't get too too big, like your pixie frogs and your African horned
frogs, but they do get a lot bigger than some of the other species, so
they're kind in that middle area so like they're really good for a frog that's
not too little but not too big. As far as their type of tank that you can use, we
recommend a 10 gallon for the babies, but once they hit adult size we
recommend that you go up to a 20 gallon. Our arboreal tank that we recommend is
the 18 x 18 x 24. We have a normal one here with a normal background,
we also have our new tiki background one, which would be really awesome for an
adult White's. So yeah, as long as you have got a 20 gallon when they're an adult
then you're good to go. For their bedding we use Reptisoil that
you can find here in our store. We found that Reptisoil is really good for
holding in humidity, and it's also good that if they decide that they want to
sit down in it it won't hurt their skin. These guys have really sensitive skin
and other beddings could be too acidic for them, so this Reptisoil works
really well for not hurting them. As far as temperature goes, the temperature is
really easy because they only need to be like 75 to 85 degrees, basically room
temperature. We don't even have to use heat bulbs on ours, we just use a display
light. You can use a UVB light that doesn't give off any
heat, and that's good for like keeping your live plants healthy and keeping
them growing and everything, and it won't hurt the frog at all so, and you can also
see the frog much better with lighting on it. So as I said they do need a higher
humidity, so we do spray this guy down every day. We also make sure the bedding
is nice and damp, so they do require you to monitor the humidity if they get too
dry that's not too good for them. So as far as their water dish goes you want to
make sure they have one, and that they have water every day. They'll want to lay
in that water sometimes to hydrate, but make sure that you never use
distilled or RO water, because that water is too pure for them. They're
amphibians so they absorb stuff through their skin really easily and they always
are trying to maintain an osmotic balance, like a pH, not a pH, an osmotic
balance with their environment, and if you've got them in too pure of water
they'll end up absorbing all of that water, and they can actually die from it
being too pure for them. So they always need water that's got some salts and
dissolved salts and minerals in it, that way that they don't absorb too much of
it and kinda stays in balance with the with the water in their body, so. What
we use instead of RO or distilled water for these guys we call our frog
water, but it's really dechlorinated tap water, that way it keeps the minerals and
dissolved salts, but you don't have the chlorine, because that's taken out by the
dechlorinator. As far as their diet goes they are strict carnivores so they will
eat bugs like crickets, mealworms, wax worms, cockroaches, and for the adults if
they get big enough, you can even try baby pinky mice every now and then. So
that's perfectly fine just don't feed them too much or they will get fat and
obese. So we feed these guys about two to three times a week.
At the beginning of the week we give them one day of multivitamin dust on
their crickets, while the other two days we give them the calcium dust. Yeah,
vitamin dust should only be given once a week. So now these guys shouldn't be
handled very often, but you can handle them. However, because they can absorb
stuff through their skin the toxins on your hands, just your natural oils and
other toxins that can be found in the environment, they will actually absorb
that through their skin so what you'll want to do is get some gloves. So this is
the safest way to handle them if you'd like to hold them. Gloves kind of help
protect your hands, and mostly their skin and your hands from passing
on toxins to them. So what you do is you kinda scoop them up, don't grab them
because then they'll get kind of scared, but this guy he's hiding in here. So what
I'm gonna do is I'm gonna nudge him out, sometimes they will pee on you so that
is a possibility. What I'm going to do is nudge him out. So yeah, just kind of scoop him up. Just kinda hold them. You'll want to keep your hands,
they might hop, he might jump, so you just got to be careful and don't hold him
like far off the ground, that way he won't fall and hurt himself. I've got him
on a table right now, so he should be good, but if he does jump it won't hurt
him, it won't hurt him at all. But he's looking like he wants to jump back into his cage, so I'll give you kind of an
up-close look and hope he doesn't jump on the camera, but you can see he really
he really wants to go back so we'll let him go back now. But as you can see this
doesn't, my hands, the oils from my hands aren't getting on him and he's staying
okay, but you don't want to get him out for too long because they can dry out, so.
And if you need to put him in a container it's always best to put a like a damp
towel, like you can soak a like a damp paper towel in their frog water and you
can put it into, there he goes, you can put it into like a bin or something and
that way that if you put them inside the bin, they can stay nice and nice and
moist and damp, so that's basically it as far as handling goes. Now as far as daily
care for these guys, it's really easy and that's one of the reasons why these guys
make such great pets is because they're really not very high maintenance. You
just have to take out their water dish every day, because they can't they will
probably have it dirty for you every morning, either with them climbing in it
and they'll get all the substrate in it and everything. So yeah, silly boy. But you
also have to spot check for poop, pick out any poop that's in the cage.
Check their plants, they will poop on the plants so if you gotta scrub those off a
little, that's also another thing you gotta do, but just as far as picking up
poop, taking out their water dumping it and giving them fresh, and then just
spray them down. Just spray them down. We spray them down with RO water that
creates the moisture, it's not something that they soak in. We don't spray him
directly with it, that way he doesn't get too much of that pure water on him, so
yeah, we just spray down the cage, make sure it's nice and humid and then we
just give him fresh water so that he can sit in that if he wants to, so. And then
on the days that we feed him, we just give him like four, three to
four crickets. We give him large, so. He's not full-grown, he's
still got a little ways to go. He's like a kind of like a "teenager" as far as a
White's tree frogs go. But yeah, he's pretty awesome and they do make great
pets.