hello everyone today we're going to do another fan requested video and again i just want to
thank all of you subscribers and people who share like follow interact and comment and tell me what
you want to see because that makes me feel about about just talking to the black box that is my
camera phone but anyway so today we're going to talk about five good pet tree frogs we've already
talked about amphibians in a couple different videos five beginner amphibians and all of that
but today we someone specifically requested tree frogs so i'm going to talk about five good choices
of pet tree frogs they're obviously not the only ones and there are dozens of species of
tree frogs that can make very good pets i'm just gonna pick five that i think are good for kind of
anybody to get so i'm going to start with the we're going to go from probably the most delicate
most expensive or least great beginner and we're going to move down in just what
is really just kind of my opinion about it it's not necessarily fact but just
go down so none of these really require uvb but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't offer it um
i think that you should always offer uvb if you can specifically with amphibians and not really
every lizard and even snakes too if you can if you want um all frogs are essentially nocturnal
there are some that will be not sleeping or a little bit more active within your day
but they are most active at dusk and at night and that's where you're going to hear them calling and
chirping and all that fun jazz so we're gonna start with that assumption and then just get
right down in the list so at number five out of the five and going down again that's the red-eyed
tree frog arguably the most iconic just frog period in the pet hobby or whatever it may be
and that's for obvious reasons when they are awake they are stunningly beautiful little animals those
obviously for their namesake giant bright red eyes with that perfect green skin the hilarious little
legs and hands and that really just i'm really striking blue pattern on the sides there's not
a whole lot of blue or natural blue in the animal kingdom and they have it which looks really cool
but the reason why they're number five on the list instead of further down the road is for a couple
different reasons number one they are kind of the most delicate amphibians in general can be pretty
hardy but they really don't withstand a lot of temperatures a lot of dry climate and a lot of
handling and the red eye tree frogs on this list are definitely the most delicate it comes to that
so with that in mind you do need to remember and with all of these on the list they do need
a lot of humidity because they're frogs they have that poor skin that absorbs
moisture from the water as well as in the air too and they don't like handling period there are
a couple that are a little bit more tolerant and we'll get down to them but i still wouldn't really
recommend handling amphibians more often than you ever really have to but these guys are really cool
the only problem with these is that you probably won't see them a whole lot unless you kind of like
camp out or pop them pop in and turn on the lights really quick at night and then you'll actually see
them up and about otherwise during the day almost entirely they will be sleeping they'll be under
they'll be up against the side of their enclosure they'll be under leaves behind logs under raw not
really under rocks because they're very arboreal you'll almost never see them on the ground but you
will they'll be asleep during the day and at night you'll be able to see them they do call a little
bit you don't really hear it very much at all unless you have like big groups of them in places
for them to spawn in but if you're just keeping a couple in like a little exoteria upper exoterra
upright 12 by 12 which is a good enclosure for like a couple like two or three which is a good
starter minimum enclosure you're really not going to hear them calling a lot but
that being said they are they are interesting too to look at during the day because uh red eye tree
frogs and a couple other frogs have this really cool kind of like third membrane that covers their
eye so obviously they do have eyelids and they can't completely shut their eyes unlike snakes
but like a lot of amphibians and lizards they can completely shut their eyes but they have
this third membrane that covers it that kind of like with sharks when they have that membrane
when they bite down on stuff that protects their eye they have one that's kind of opaque like this
cool little opaque lattice that covers it that allows them to not see shapes and color very
well but really picks up shadow and light so that when they are sleeping that they can still see
that shadow and light disturbance of a predator is coming along and picking them up so red eye
tree frogs they can make a decent beginning pet tree frog i've had a couple in the past
but they were already mature older adults when i got them and some other ones that are very similar
are there's black-eyed tree frogs which are similar there's white lit tree frogs and there's
tiger leg tree frogs the tiger legs are a little bit smaller but they're probably the closest
in care and overall kind of like personality of the red-eye tree frogs so moving on down the road
is the green tree frog these guys are very very common they're endemic to the united states mostly
in the south uh south and southeast so florida up kind of that the east coast um very they're
fairly hardy when it comes to amphibians again when we think of hardy we think of like a bearded
dragon or like a snake or like a like a corn snake or something but as far as amphibians go
most of these are pretty hardy and green tree frogs definitely are and that's probably because
they do come from north america and while florida is still you know quite tropical it's
a little bit more weather depend like the weather fluctuates there we go fluctuates is a little bit
more than like say some places in southeast asia or africa where they're directly on the
the equator where you don't really get a whole lot of temperature fluctuations you just mostly
have a wet and dry season but they don't get very large only two to two and a half inches for like a
big female they do commune pretty well so you can cohabitate if you give them a big enough
enclosure and lots of places for them to hide amphibians as a whole are quite cannibalistic
but if they're all relatively the same size you give them lots of food lots of places to hide
and you know if they require a basking spot or whatever give them a couple on both ends to
kind of give them a little bit if you're gonna give them a large large enclosure then i think
you'll be okay um these guys the specifically the males because the males are the ones that call
are very vocal they have a cool little chirping croak call um and as with all these as well make
sure you give them a nice clean water dish that has been uh purified or um sits out for at least
24 hours to kind of help with that because just tap water will kill amphibians but they're really
cool they're all insectivores fetum dusted crickets mealworms maybe not small roaches
because they always have even the small ones have really hard shells um silkworms blackfly larva
things like that works really well but they're really cool they don't really handle a whole lot
but they are cool they do make interesting little amphibians to take care of especially if it's like
you're like a kid's first pet then that's a really good choice to go with and with that in mind we'll
move right along to the next one and personally my favorite frog the amazon milk frog we've done
a video about them and you if you want to you can take a look right here and check them out
and i know this is anthropomorphizing them a little bit but they just look like
such judgy chubby little chonkers they're they're really cool they're one of the ones
that are actually more active or at least don't hide during the day they'll just hang out kind of
constantly and that's really cool they're one of the larger tree frog species you know with the
exception of like the monkey frogs like the waxies or the mexican monkey frogs that just get huge
but they get some decent size to them they're like i said they're heck and chunk or frogs
and they call them milk frogs for pretty obvious reasons which is you know when
they feel threatened they will secrete this foul-tasting semi-toxic substance from their
skin which if it gets in a predator's mouth rise it's not great so they're really cool um
they don't all of them they they need to stay fairly like room temp coolish like anything
above 83 84 is very dangerous to most amphibians and most frogs but you know if it's get really
cold you can give them a little hot spot once again just make sure you keep them nice and moist
fearing feeding the various diets of dustin and calcium uh dust calcium dust and multivitamin dust
oh that's not good i'm already flubbing already i'm so sorry you guys but they're really cool they
are one of the more expensive ones you usually find them for like small little ones i've seen
them a lot for like 75 to 90 dollars whereas like the green tree frogs you can usually find like
four or five dollars so if you that in mind but they do get bigger their lifespans are a little
bit longer and honestly i think they're cuter and they do call too mine refuse to which means
they're either both females because i don't know how to uh i don't know how to sex them very well
or really at all they could both be girls or just they don't like to in general but they do call and
they can get pretty loud so if you can get a mail or a couple mails and then you hear them calling
that'll be really interesting and be really cool to hear because i've heard recordings of them and
i really wish mine did but with that being said moving down the one this one is not as iconic
as the red eye tree frog but i feel like they're one of the most popular tree frogs and that is the
whites or australian chubby tree frog they all have the same name they all come from a couple
different localities and subspecies but all from australia and uh indonesia so that indo
aussie new guinea area so they're really really cool because they're one of the larger ones
they call them chubby for a reason and these guys are one of the more hardy ones so
again handling not the best i wouldn't recommend it more than necessary but they will tolerate it
and hold up a little bit better than really any of the other ones on the list and they're
very hardy they can take the dry and the uh the dry and the humid fluctuations a little
bit better than some of the other ones still try to keep that humidity of at least 60 to 80
percent kind of constantly but they can take it a little bit better as you know there's a learning
curve unfortunately but that's with everything in life and that's how it is and so not necessarily
a training wheels pet but one that you're going to start off with and you want to continue on
an australian or chubby tree frog is really cool the whites tree frogs and i'm just going
to use all of these names anyway are really cool because they kind of come in a variety of colors
now that we've started to specifically lime bread them line breed them
or breed for different things so usually when you see them they're a pretty good green color
but they come in all sorts of colors now blues and purples i think there's albinos and hypos there's
a whole bunch of different colors out there so you kind of have from the entry level just white's
tree frog normal looking one two if you really get into the species and you really like taking care
of it you can have a purple tree frog which would be really really cool not necessarily as bright
as like the poison dart frogs but that's okay they're still really really cool tree frogs and
i don't i've never kept them but one day i think i'd like to just have like
a little colony of them in like a big upright 40 gallon aquarium or something like that um but
moving right along and then the last one on this list in all honesty i personally would choose the
whites or the amazon tree frog over this one but these guys do make very hearty good first time
tree frog pets and that is the cuban tree frog so the cuban tree frog is interesting because they're
not actually endemic to north america or at least continental north america but they're one of the
most common tree frogs and that's because they are heavily invasive because they hitch a ride on
so many imported plants and produce that they just kind of pop up everywhere so they're very prolific
and a lot of times people confuse them for brown not brown but for young green tree frogs because
when gray tree frogs are born they're not bright bright green they're kind of like a brownish color
and then they'll slowly turn that nice green color but cuban tree frogs they actually have
the ability to change color just kind of how they're feeling in their environment like a lot
of other animals and a lot of snakes as it turns out which i am learning that more and more do that
but they can go from almost a white color to a milky brown to a dark brown and then sometimes
even to a dark green and so whenever you know you bring in a plant and you flip it up and there's a
couple frogs sitting there you might have a couple green tree frogs where you might end up with a
green tree frog and then a baby cuban frog that will very quickly outsize and unfortunately if
you decide to house them together eat the green tree frog because cuban tree frogs get big they
a big female can get over six inches from head to butt i guess um there's an actual anatomical
definition for our term for that but from head to butt they are one of the larger american tree
frogs which is really cool they're very hardy they can stand to a lot of different temperature and
humidity fluctuations although not necessarily the best for them but they are certainly very hardy
they can withstand a little bit more handling maybe not necessarily as much as the whites
but they can do pretty well but once again and i know i keep coming back to this but
i really do recommend not handling amphibians more than necessary it can damage their skin
the oils in your hands like have you ever seen me mess with them i'm usually wearing gloves for
a reason just because it can be so damaging to them but hopefully you enjoyed this video
i don't know nearly as much about amphibians as i would like to and especially not as much as i
just do with snakes because that's definitely you know that's my jam are the snakes but that
doesn't mean i don't love them i have several frog species here including we have a tiger lake frog
and we have the tomato frogs and african or asian chubby frogs and we have the amazon milk frogs my
personal favorite so and hopefully i'm planning to get a few more down the road too of some other
fun little species that i would love to be able to share with you guys but hopefully i gave you
a little bit of info that you didn't know yet or gave you some ideas if you're thinking about
getting some of these specific tree frogs versus like one of the ground frogs like
the tomatoes or pac-man or something like that but if you're looking for tree frogs
i think these are some good ideas to get you into that before you kind of start to branch out and
go crazy as we all tend to do but once again hope you enjoyed the video if you have any suggestions
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