Agalychnis
callidryas
Agalychnis
callidryas
Red Eyed Tree Frogs are an extreamly beautiful frog and I beleave are one of the best frogs for photography.
Price - I do not know the price for Red Eyed Tree Frogs because I havent found a pet store that sells them. (If you know the price for Red Eyed Tree Frogs could you please e-mail me and tell me.)
Food - Red Eyed TreeFrogs eat crickets that should be fed a vitamin suppliment before being fed to your frog. I suggest buying a small jar of cricket food which helps to "gut pack" the frog full of vitamins. I buy two dozen crickets every one or two weeks (For my Frogs) and keep them in the smallest "little critter pen" that you can buy at most pet stores. I find that it houses the crickets quite well and has a plastic door at the top that i open and shake the crickets in. I hate bugs and prfer not to touch them so i bought an eyebrow tweezer that I use to pick the crickets up with when ever I have to. Make sure that if you are housing crickets that you keep the area they are in moist.
Living Enviroment - Red Eyed Tree Frogs require a 20-30 gallon tank depending on how many frogs you are wanting to keep. If you have only one frog then a 10 gallon will do just fine. If you can find a tank that is higher up instead of wide this would be better because Red Eyed Tree Frogs love to climb. They don't need alot of water just a little dish with a stick going in and out of it so they can easily climb out. Make sure to have lots of plants in your tank and I suggest putting down aquarium gravel then reptile dirt that you can buy at the pet store and them moss. ( you can buy this dried out moss from your pet store in a bag and it can be washed and re-used. Do not go and find your own moss from outside because the moss may have harmfull chemicals in it or the moss itself may be harmful to the frog.) The frogs love the real moss because it is soft. A couple of weeks ago I was thinkin about buyin a little house to put in my frogs tank when i thought of a great idea. I took the lid from a plastic juice jug (the ones with the hold to pour the juice plus another hold with a grated opening so that juice can be strained) and washed it out. I put it in my frog tank and it works perfectly as a house becaue the opening is just big enough for the frog and the grated opening allows air to flow in from the other side. The juice lid alson had two deep groves in the top of the lid which I filled up with water and there you have it a frog house/water bowl. My frog loves it and it didn't cost me anything (except now we have no lid for our juice container) If you buy wood at your pet store thinking that it is safe for your frog, Be Careful and make sure that the wood that you buy won't hurt your frog when it gets wet. I bought a peice of wood designed for vivariums, terrariums and aquariums and was told by a store clerck that the wood contained no harmful dyes or chemicals andwill be alright to get wet. So I took it home along with my new little Tree Frog named "Chewie". Two weeks later i noticed when my frog would get wet and go on the wood the wood would give off a reddish dye and it would get on my frog. I took the wood out and washed it and put it back in the tank but a few days later i noticed the same thing was happening. I immediatly removed the wood but it was too late for Chewie she died from the effects of the dye. I took the wood back to Petsmart and got a full refund but they are continue to sell the wood in their store. The wood that I have in my tank is working great now though and Chubbies (my green tree frog) loves to curl up on it.
Friends For Red Eyed Tree Frogs? - Yes. Red Eyed tree Frogs do extreamly well in communities. I really suggest keeping at least 2 Red Eyed Tree Frogs together. They also do well with White's Tree Frogs, Green Tree frogs and other species of tree frogs as long as all the frogs are around the same size.
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