Have You Met A Red Eyed Tree Frog

The red eyed tree frog is one of the more colorful and interesting tree frogs there is. The frog has brilliant red eyes , its green and it has orange feet. It almost looks like something that someone put together instead of a real living creature but it is real and people keep them as pets.

They really are one of the most beautiful species of frog there is. The red eyed tree frog is native to the rain forests of Costa Rica and other parts of central America. Depending on the mood of your red eyed tree frog it can be anywhere from light brown to brilliant green. And red eyed tree frogs get from 2-3 inches in length.

You need to keep in mind that a red eyed tree frog is much more delicate than a snake would be. If you approach it trying to catch it the red eyed tree frog is going to hop away. Your not going to cuddle a red eyed tree frog but they are a great pet for a terrarium.

They are a display pet. In case you don't know that is a pet that you keep on display while you provide for its needs like food, water, and keep its enclosure clean.

Be sure to feed your red eyed tree frog only the smaller crickets. They can have trouble with large crickets.

Red eyed tree frogs are insectivores which means they they eat a solid diet of insects. The best thing for you to feed to your red eyed tree frog is crickets. You will need to locate a pet shop or fishing bait store that can supply you with a steady supply of crickets for your red eyed tree frog to eat. You will need to feed your red eyed tree frog about 15 crickets ever two to three days. And the crickets need to be the smallest size available. Most red eyed tree frogs don't do well with large crickets.

You can easily keep a pair of red eyed tree frogs in a 10 gallon aquarium. For every red eyed tree frog you add to an enclosure you need to add 5 gallons to the size of the enclosure. Inside your enclosure you need fake and real plants and ideally a running or falling source of water like in the video above. Your red eyed tree frogs must have humidity and moisture like the rain forests in Costa Rica have. You can not let your red eyed tree frog dry out. You also will need a thermometer in the enclosure.

Non fertilized potting soil 3-4 inches deep will work great in the floor of your red eyed tree frog enclosure. And your red eyed tree frog or frogs will need a shelter where it can hide during the day as red eyed tree frogs are nocturnal. You will need a heat lamp as your red eyed tree frog enclosure will need to be around 78 degrees in the day time and around 70 degrees at night. The humidity in your red eyed tree frog enclosure needs to be around 70 percent at all times.

Your frog or frogs need a little pond where they can soak. Ideally the water fall or little stream should run into this little pond. Your frog or frogs will soak themselves in this little pond.And there must be a secure top on your red eyed tree frog enclosure because your red eyed tree frog will escape if it can at all.

Your red eyed tree frog will need humidity , it will need to be fed crickets and you will need to keep the enclosure clean and the water will especially need to be clean. The humidity in the enclosure is very important so that your frog does not ever dry out.

In their wild native habitat Red Eyed Tree Frogs are often preyed on by Owls, Toucans, Young Alligators, Tarantulas, Snakes, and Bats. In their Central American home the rainforest is disappearing at an alarming rate and as the rainforest is cut down and plowed under the natural habitat of the Red Eyed Tree Frog is destroyed.

Non Native Species Continue To Show Up In Florida

But you can now find the Red Eyed Tree Frog in isolated pockets in southern Florida. They have escaped into the wild or they have been turned loose and their is now a breeding population in much of southern Florida.

The Red Eyed Tree Frog Is Also Known As The Monkey Frog

Did you know that in Central America that the frog is often referred to as a Monkey Frog. This is mostly because of its jumping ability.

Be Careful To Feed Your Frog Only Small Crickets

You should note that this particular frog has a long sticky tongue that it can use to grab onto its potential prey. Some people who have fed this frog large crickets have seen their frog get into trouble because the frog will try to eat crickets and grasshoppers that are too large for it and they get hung in its mouth. If this happens you have to be very careful because this frog is very delicate. So the best thing to do is to pick out only the smallest crickets to feed to your Red Eyed Tree Frog.

The Red Eyed Tree Frog is an amphibian and a carnivore. Red Eyed Leaf Frogs are also known as Red Eyed Leaf Frogs because they like to hide on the underside of leaves in the daytime hours.

Red Eyed Tree Frogs Are Not Venomous

Many people especially in their native habitat think that this particular frog is venomous because of its bright colors but this is not so. The Red Eyed Tree Frog is not venomous.