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White's Tree Frog care?

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From numbers 1 -10 What would you rate the difficulty of taking care of the frogs. (Seperate) 1-10 The maintinance?

Hello! 🙂

White's Tree Frogs are excellent pets! I love the croaking noises that they make. :)) Makes you seem like your outside when you hear them!
They are not difficult to take care of, it just depends on how much time you want to devote to maintenance and how many frogs you have in the tank at one time.
As the fogs need to eat crickets, meal worms..etc, they defecate ( as all living things do) and this causes a bit of a mess down the side of the aquarium glass and on the substrate below. They also need constant moisture and humidity! They need this for their skin integrity.
They also need a heat source as you need to simulate day time…
You should purchase a book on caring for them as I could keep writing re: them for a bit here 😉 lol.
If you don't keep them clean (which is quite important), they will get little mites in the substrate below them and these mites are quite hard to get rid of once you have them!
You would probably need to wipe out and clean their cage once a week to every ten days…

They are beautiful animals to have as pets! Just as with every pet though, there is time you need to dedicate to maintenance and care. Please as I said above read, read, read on them… I hope I helped a bit and good luck! 😉

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Froglets and food.?

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Ok I'm raising 112 tadpoles for 11 classes in my mom's school. I have raised them before for a few years, but every time it's come to froglets it've kinda been a lil ify on food. I've tried (altho i dont kno if it helped) to give them turtle food in past years (that is, dried maggots origionally for turtles), and once it comes in overseas I'm trying foster and smith's amphibian food so see if it works.

I was also thinking of cultavating maggots (put old meat in a jar, cover with gauze, and let flies lay eggs on the gauze-like that one italian guy did in the 1500's), but I have no clue if it would work.

I would give them bloodworms but my attempts to find them in the wild are failures and the petstore stopped carrying them.

Will the turtle food work, or even some raw meat? I always thought movement triggered the reaction.

Thank you sooo much.
Also these are froglets that just barley lost their tails completely.

Aren't froglets cute??

In the wild, the froglets would have food available at all times and it is important that the froglets can feed when they feel the need. To provide food in the setup, springtails can be introduced into the substrate and a piece of fruit can be left in the setup which will attract the fruit flies. By doing this, the froglets should be able to find food without the food causing stress to the froglets (i.e., the flies crawling on the froglets). Froglets should always have food available. Some people have reported that froglets that go more than 24 hrs without food may die.

If you don't know where to get springtails – go here:
http://www.edsflymeat.com/

Good luck!
~Morgana

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how much does a chinese fire belly newt cost to take care of?

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im getting two fire belly newys and i need to know how much all the supplys will cost . just a rougt estament though

I would say:
about $20.00 for a tank to put it in
about $5.00-$10.00 for the newt itself
about $3.00 every couple of weeks for food
$5.00-$10.00 for a filter, which is a good investment but not a necessity (if you get a tank that has a filter then you don't have to worry about that expense.
for decoration I just had some rocks for them to climb on. It didn't cost me anything. If you do that though you wanna be careful that you don't put a rock in that could roll on them or crush them.
I would say total it's a $28.00- $40.00 investment

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Newt and salamander care?

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Im thinking of getting either newts or salamanders. Are they hard to take care of? what kind of water quality do I need? what do I need to set up?(already have 55 gallon tank)

Depending on what kind you get, you might need all water or very little water in the tank. The water should be clean and preferably non-chlorinated. Your main problem will be feeding them; most like live food. How do you feel about raising flies? Or worms?

I'd suggest reading up on them and learning all you can about the kind you want before purchasing any.

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Are these UVB, UVA bulbs for pets dangerous?

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As you all know, reptiles and amphibians require a certain temperature in their habitat and the natural source of sunlight, or the use of a UVB, UVA lamp.
Basically my question is that, are these things dangerous?
I've been using this brand-ish, http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2752615, for the past 6 months for my White's dumpy. However my parents have been warning me about the dangers of it. They said because of it's supposed ' intense heat" or whatever it creates… they said it could catch the WHOLE HOUES ON FIRE.

I keep thinking they're just exaggerating, but i just wanted to know if theres any potential hazard, danger with these lamps that the guys at petco and petsmart suggested for us to use to heat our pets.
thanks.

Your Petsmart link doesn't work.. It just brings me to their main page..
Are you using a fluorescent fixture (long tubes) or a Mercury Vapor bulb (looks like an incandescent bulb but would've cost about $40)?
If you're using a mercury vapor bulb of 250w in a regular fixture, yes, that could cause a fire.. Anything like that needs to be used with a dome fixture that has a ceramic base rather then the plastic ones most of the ones at the hardware store have.
You want to make sure that the lighting fixture is attached in place and away from any flammable materials. The most common cause of fires I've heard of with reptile lamps is when the lamp isn't anchored securely and gets knocked down into the substrate. Fluorescent bulbs don't let off as much heat. But, you still wouldn't want to have any kind of fabric or hay or other flammables all that close to it..
My personal rule is that I keep lighting and heating fixtures about a foot away from anything flammable.
You'll probably want to get a laser temp gun anyhow to make sure the temps are right in your enclosures. Then you can just use that to see what temperatures things get right around your lighting fixture..
I bought mine for about $20 on Ebay.. It's a proexotics PE-1 and works very well. That way I can make sure there aren't any unusually hot spots around the lamp or in the enclosure.
If you have cats, make sure to anchor the light fixture.. Cats have a tendency to knock things like that over and if it landed on something flammable like a pile of clothes that could start a fire..

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How do you care for a frog?

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Today I found a frog in my celery that I was going to use for my thanksgiving dinner. It is a live and I dont know what to do with it. I cant tell what kind of frog it is. It is tiny about the size of a quarter. How do I care for it and what do they need to survive. What do they eat? I am at a loss because I cant set it free I live in the desert. Please Help

Its care will depend greatly on what species it is, for now i would put it into a small container (make sure there are a few holes, a tupperware container should be fine) then put some damp dirt on the bottom, making sure that it is damp but not wet. Put in a piece of bark (well rinsed) for him to hind under. Make sure he stays warm and try to id him online or bring him to a pet store as soon as u can.

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What kind of lizards can live in my vivarium?

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My vivarium is 24" wide by 12" deep and high. I am not new to reptiles and amphibians as i care for two white's tree frogs and have cared for leopard geckos

Have you considered a Viper gecko? They are small, docile, easy to care for, interesting looking little animals that would do quite well in an enclosure that size.

Here is a care sheet for further information on them. 🙂
http://www.vmsherp.com/CarePages/CareTeratolepis.htm

I hope this helps, and if you have any further questions at all on the subject; please feel free to message me and I will be happy to assist you.

Good luck!

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