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Just to say somthing first, ill be getting my new blizzard leo next week  Ok now to actually get on the topic. I've been thinking about getting a new frog. I don't know if I want a tree frog or a water dwelling one, im undicieded. I use to keep Green Tree Frogs, and I took care of my friends Pac-Man Frog. If I do decided to get a new frog, I would want one that needs a maximum of a 20 gallon tank to live in. I would also like somthing that isn't cheap but not expensive at the same time, like about $25-50. I would also like it to be not a begginer frog but not a very difficult frog to care for also. Any ideas of a good frog would be great.
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Look into Red Eyed Tree Frogs Agalychnis callidryas. They are quite rewardable anurans.
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| I wouldn't really suggest red-eyed tree frogs if you're looking for something easy to keep alive. They are very easy to kill; one little mistake and you could have a dead frog. Bacterial infections are especially common in this species, even more so in froglets if the humidity is too high (fifty percent or over). Pacman frogs (Ceratophrys ornata, C. cranwelli, or C. cranwelli x cornuta only), tomato frogs, Dendrobates tinctorius, D. auratus, D. leucomelas, White's tree frogs, and milk frogs are all interesting and easy to keep alive.
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I've thought about pac man frogs before, but I think red-eyes would be cool. Grant do you think I have the experince to keep red eyes? Also, how much are red eyes?
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| I don't know about you, but I sure couldn't. My two froglets both died. Of course, they were only about three-quarters of an inch long, but it is very hard to find captive bred ones much larger than that (unless you'd like to pay 100 or more dollars for a true captive bred adult). Many of the twenty-five dollar, "captive bred" frogs are farm-raised in South America, just as parasite-ridden and unacclimated as wild caughts. So you would need to keep humidity in the thirty to forty percent range (I realize that most care sheets say you should keep them in eighty to ninety percent humidity, but Bill Schwinn, a red-eyed tree frog breeder who has kept and bred red-eyes successfully for ten years, reccomends that red-eyes, and froglets in particular, are kept at low humidity levels), buying 1/8 inch crickets (only found online) or fruit flies, and medicating them with Baytril until they are nearly full grown. And although a captive bred froglet should only cost you fifteen or twenty dollars, the food that must be shipped to your house weekly (the crickets will outgrow the frogs quickly) and the medications you must give them daily will really start to add up. Expect to pay at least 200 dollars or more to get them to adult size when they will be needing a larger cage, which only adds more to the cost. Keeping red-eyed tree frogs is certainly feasible, but it is expensive and risky.
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Well know that I here your story I think i'll be better off getting somthing else. Probably a pac man, I already know how to care for them. Thanks for the help Grant and HIT.
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| RETF's are delicate, as Grant said (sorry for your loss) D. auratus dart frogs are great starter dart frogs as are D. luecomelas, auratus run from 30-60 or higher depending upon the breeder pac man, milky tree frogs, whites tree frogs are great starters too. get back, i have a caresheet for whites, D. auratus, and RETf's, though if Grant lost his than i suggest you not get them
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Gray tree frog
barking tree frog
chorus frogs
these are my favorite
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| grey treefrog or dumpy treefrog
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| if i were u i wuld get a leopard frog. those are really cool frogs. they could live in a 15 gallon tank or 20. u can use gravel on one side nd water on the other. make a slope, so one side can be water nd the other side can be gravel. use a 15 gallon underwater filter. they eat small crickets when they are small. give it bigger crickets when the get bigger. they will eat mealworms nd waxworms to. waxworms are only treats so feed sparingly. clean cage every month. the total would be less than $100 ou should get them its worth the money
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