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1around 1:30 he says feeding is like dinners and sides, i eat fries for dinner sometimes, thats means the gray tree frog can eat mealworms only (this is a joke)
Awesome! I have a gray treefrog living in my backyard. Hopefully he stays away from my pet box turtles because they would likely eat him. He also needs to watch out for the wild garter snakes in my backyard. I have a few pet garter snakes as well. One of the wild snakes is sort of my pet. I can pick him up and hold him for awhile but then I put him back. He lives under my backyard sidewalk. He doesn't even try to leave when I go to pick him up because he knows that I would never hurt him.
Tom Crutchfield always says conservation through commercialization. If people like a certain species of reptile or amphibian as a pet then they are gonna try to have it preserved in the wild as well so that they have wild go to animals to incorporate into their bloodlines to stop inbreeding depression. I don't believe in capturing large numbers of individuals at a time though. I have a few wild caught snakes but I never collect again until a pet passes away. Last year I collected an Eastern milksnake for the first time in 20 years because 20 years is how long my pet lived. Getting a new snake wasn't necessary until my pet died. I have 4 pet toads. I only intended to have one but someone gave me 3 that their son had for a few months but lost interest in. Last year I gave a few toads to a friend of mine because all I had at the time was a 10 gallon aquarium. That's okay for 1 toad temporarily but not for its entire life. Mine are doing wonderful now since I bought a 100 gallon Rubbermaid cattle tank and fixed it up for my toads as an outdoor enclosure. I've added a bunch of plants that are also thriving.
Thanks for the review. I get tadpoles out of a local ditch on a busy road, typically late in the season where there would not be time for them to survive. I raise the tadpoles and release the frogs the next spring at the local park. I keep the baby tree frogs in a small enclosure with moss, isopods, water dish.... I buy a couple fruit fly cultures and then start making my own, it's really easy and they just keep multiplying. I mist more when they are smaller. As they grow up their environment can stay reletively dry as typically they would be in the trees more. I hand mist daily in the late evening or night which will help them become active for feeding and swap out for a clean hand mister weekly. I have gone a couple weeks without misting, it's not a problam as long as they have a place to soak. I make sure their ceramic water dish is a good size so they can completely submerge in, float in and just hang out in. I use filtered water for their water dish & misting. They love soaking in the water to hydrate and will often poop in it so I change it out almost daily. I don't use a bioactive enclosure once I get past the fruit fly feeding stage. I use driftwood for climbing and plastic plants in ceramic vases for them to hide in and a reptile mat. I keep the ground area free of debris so the crickets and cockroaches have very little hiding places. I use a heating pad under the enclosure/water dish in the winter time with a layer of aquarium stone under the reptile mat to dissipate the heat. I clean the enclosure out about once a month with Dawn dish soap and water.
I love going outside at night when it's raining and looking at all the critters in the pond, I'm so glad a lot of other people are up to the same kind of fun
I have a 3 - 5 year old Female American toad she shares a same tank with 2 other female toads, I’ve had her since 2021 and recently the past 2 - 3 days I noticed she hadn’t moved a lot barely any energy she had her legs spread out she also lay pretty much on her belly I know she wasn’t dead because I seen her eyes and she was breathing, she also wasn’t eating to much, I looked this up and best I can think of is Bloated stomach, if this is a bloated stomach dose it just go away on its own? I am very concerned because she’s like my kid and I don’t want anything to happen to her
I love toads! Thank you for your video. Any tips on recording while rescuing them from cars? Two years ago I came across toads crossing a road on my way home from work and noticed they were getting squished by cars. It was dark and it was raining...did everything I could to rescue as many as possible and even got a little video on my phone. It was so nice to hear their little peeps and the male call in your video. Join our groups and teach us how we can document these beautiful critters so vulnerable to nighttime drivers.
Wellsboro was at the top of the screen when he was croaking. Dead center if the screen up top. Thanks for the video, very well narrated and put together.
I live in Pa also. I caught 2 grays last year. I had them in captivity for 2 months but didnt have the heart to keep them. If I could find a captive bred,id have one in a heartbeat.
I found some wood frogs. There habitat has shrank to such a small area dude to new construction.Their pond is surrounded by roads. Its like watching ice melt😢
Every year in spring these fellers sing their hearts out for a mate, odds are its a complete male cloaca party, all the females ive seen hang around streams or big puddles bordering on tiny lakes. It seems males are more adventurous in seeking mates, and I'd think my eastern ontario geography with frog mating behavior is the exception, not the rule.
