gray tree frog

[kingkarter]

to day i cought a gray tree frog and i was wondering if my 5g hex tank would be big enough for it?

[andywoolloo]

awww poor thing, i'd let it go. he is probably scared and hungry.

[kingkarter]

be for you go telling me dont take them from the wild you need know most gray tree frogs for sale are WILD CAUGHT as well as most frogs see http://www.generalexotics.com/frogs-tree-frogs-c-1_2
http://www.generalexotics.com/frogs-other-frogs-c-1_4

He dosnt seem to be scard and he has plenty to eat in fact he has more to eat then i thoght

[andywoolloo]

k well i d rather be in the wild then caught and in a 5 gal hex.

I feel the same way re fish also. But I feel I can give then a better home then the LFS at least, since they are already out of nature. Most of our fish we are able to buy as customers in FW are captive bred tho. Most not all.

[kingkarter]

yester day i was changing his water and he jump out of the tank then out the window so he back in the wild know

[andywoolloo]

cool. did you get any pictures of him?

[kingkarter]

yhea i did i will try in post them soon

when i was up in my room cleaning guess who was on my widow my the my frog checked her marking and it was the same one so watched her for awhile who knows where she is now probly my nighber woods

[BeavisMom62]

Frogger is probably happier in the wild. I love frogs and toads, I have a bunch of them that hang out by my front door because the light there attracts bugs. I would much rather watch them in nature than keep one captive.

One year, my son knowing how much I love frogs, went to a friend's house that had bunches of them hanging around. My kid was around 11 or 12, I think at the time. He came home with a garbage bag full of frogs that we released by my front door! I thought that was so cool. He knows how much I love animals. But one year he came home with a bat!

Also had a gecko that lived in my kitchen for years. I had some ivy on top of my kitchen cabinets that trailed around a window and I think he lived in the plant pot. I would see him come out sometimes and crawl around the ceiling. He must have made it close to the floor at times, because over time, I noticed he was missing a piece of his tail and one leg, I think my cat got ahold of him. But the missing pieces did grow back. I miss that little guy.

Last year, I had a toad that was "tamed". He would come out of hiding at night whenever I would go out the front door. He enjoyed having his ears and head rubbed. He would tilt his head, like a cat does when you scratch its ears. I have a new one this year, he's not tamed yet, but I'm working on it. I've left blood worms outside for them sometimes but they don't seem to like those!

[blondeyny]

Originally Posted by kingkarter

be for you go telling me dont take them from the wild you need know most gray tree frogs for sale are WILD CAUGHT as well as most frogs see

It's nice that you wanted to give him/her a home, however because most of them are sold as wild caught doesn't make it the best thing to do. In the aspect of fish, there are a lot of species of fish that were originally wild caught to be sold to hobbyists etc and now are endangered in their natural habitat. Not saying the grey tree frog will necessarily become extinct, but it's best to leave it in it's natural habitat.