Showing posts with label red eyed tree frog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label red eyed tree frog. Show all posts
8:26 PM

Make Your Red Eye Frog Feel At Home With The Habitat You Furnish
A habitat is the most essential part of anyone’s existence, be it a human or an animal. We adore our home; love going back to it after a long tiring day. But what if you are made to live somewhere else, a place where you are deprived of your basic necessities, a place which is completely alien to you? Doesn’t sound a good idea, right? Similar is the case with your pet. Providing a habitat that makes him feel like home is highly essential so as to make him happy and healthy.

Red eye frog is leading the race for the most lovable pet and is found more in homes as compared to cats and dogs. The frog needs ample of space for himself. An all-glass large vivarium with spacious vertical room is recommended. Since they are arboreal, plenty of height space is required. The vivarium should be roofed with a screen so as to prevent the frogs from evading.

This pet do not need any specific light or heat emitter, they do well at room temperature. However, to be at the safer side, you should make sure that the tank temperature is within the range of 26C to 28C during day time and 20C to22C at night. This can be attained using an underneath heat mat controlled by thermostat. You should setup a low UV lamp to create a natural day and night cycle. Red eye frog needs substrate. The substrate should be used to sustain high level of humidity along with being easy to clean and opposed to the fungus growth. This coconut husk fiber, safe soil, cypress mulch, orchid bark, moist form rubber or moist paper towel with 2 to 5 inches depth can be used in the substrate for giving a natural look. However, the ideal choice is coconut husk fiber that is available in different forms. At the bottom of vivarium, aquarium gravel can be used for drainage purpose.

Red eyed frog habitat environment should have the high level of humidity all time, at about 70 is a must. A large shallow water dish should be there. You need to mist the vivarium on regular basis to maintain the moist habitat about twice a day. An automatic reptile misting system is recommended. There should be several perches and hiding places for red eyed tree frog. Hiding spots can be created using live plants or artificial plants with large, broad, sturdy and green leaves for sheltering and sleeping. These arboreal tree frogs require climbing places. Branchy sticks, driftwood, slabs of cork bark, vines, and bamboo poles are decors to be used to create comfortable and natural perches and climbing areas. Tank background should be covered by dark poster to make the frogs feel secure.

It’s very important to clean the vivarium as the red eyed tree frogs have sensitive skin. Make sure to inspect the vivarum daily. Dirty items should be removed and replaced to prevent mold from budding. Fresh water should be replaced daily. Every 2 weeks, the vivarium should be hygienic and sterilized using reptile safe disinfectant or amphibian safe cleaner. Rinse the vivarium thoroughly after disinfecting.
Have a great time seeing your red eye frog hopping around happily!

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10:56 PM

Feed Your Red Eyed Tree Frog With a Sumptuous Meal
Dogs, guinea pigs and cats have been the favorite pets till date. But the ritual is broken by red eyed tree frogs that are topping the charts of the most adored and preferred pet. A native to Southern Mexico, Central America and Northern Columbia, this amphibian usually has bright green color skin, blue or purple ribs with white side strips, ruby red eyes and orange toes. Red eyed tree frog is carnivorous and gobbles mostly insects.

Red eyed tree frogs can always be an exceptional pet. They are medium sized frog, and known as Agalychnis callidryas. With only nominal care is needed, they are doing well, well suggested for beginner pet frog owners. This tropical amphibian is mostly captive bred, easy on the pocket and can be easily found in pet shops and breeders. Being carnivorous and insectivorous, they generally consume soft-bodied invertebrates. The most common and commercially available food is crickets. If you complement your tree frogs with other insects such as worms, flies, moths or grasshoppers, you would have a cheerful tree frog.

An adult red eyed tree frog should be fed for almost 5-6 times every two to three days. Juvenile frogs are fed on daily basis as they have larger appetite. Crickets are the most acceptable for the tree frogs during all life stages. Remember to feed your crickets with assorted fruits, vegetables or cricket food before 12 hours feeding them to your tree frogs. The gut loaded or dusted crickets will pass the nutrient to the frogs. Red eyed tree frogs like eat most of the live insects. Meal worms, wax worms, or silk worms can be used as supplement to crickets. Place these worms into feeding dish to avoid burrowing into the substrate. Tree frogs also eat other insects like fruit flies, curly flies, house flies, spiders, grasshoppers and moths. Gut loaded these insects with reptile supplements before feeding them to your red eyed tree frogs.

Red eyed tree frogs need water. A dish of shallow fresh water should be provided all time. Make sure the water is chlorine free. You use the bottled spring water or treat the tap water with anti-chlorine. Most of the times red eyed tree frogs do not drink water directly, but they like to soak in the clean water for rehydration. Water should be replaced every day to avoid ammonia and bacteria from building up in the water. If budget allows, try to setup a reptile misting system that will provide appropriate humidity to the cage and frogs. Frogs will drink from the water accumulated on the plants resulting from the misting as well.

Whether in its natural habitat or in captivity, red eyed tree frog food varies little. They are stealth hunters and are fun to watch when feeding. When feeding in captivity, ensure that they receive the proper amount of food at the frequency they require. During the winter season, cricket might be hard to source. It’s suggested that you can breed your own crickets to ensure full supply of various size of the insect all year long. Normally own-bred crickets are clean and out of bacteria. This can make sure that you have healthy tree frogs food supplies all time.
Keep your pet healthy and watch it hopping from one branch to another!

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