I kept a couple Gray Treefrogs in my school classroom and my students LOVED watching them (especially at feeding time!) and listening to the male vocalize (often during a quiet worktime!). I only did a tiny bit of research beforehand and am glad that my setup wasn't all the different from yours. Whew! Anyway, they thrived and even burrowed down into the substrate for months during the winter. We thought that they had somehow escaped until they popped out a few months later refreshed and alive! Great episode!
@@mikehawk260 I thought they had escaped and it was a large enclosure so I just kept it as a terrarium (or so I thought). I watered the plants and that was it. I suppose their metabolism slowed down and they just didn't require calories. They got moisture through their skin and just appeared one day. Blew my mind. They did enjoy a bunch of crickets directly afterwards. They may have eaten some mealworms that escaped a food dish but I don't think so. Anyway, they're hardy creatures. They live in my yard in Western New York (I hear them all the time and see them on my deck) and survive the winters just fine.
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This, and while I appreciated the artistic touch to the frog montage, I found the constant colour, angle, and panning change made it harder to appreciate the natural beauty of the frogs in their new enclosure. Perhaps a sort of mix would be best
I've never heard of these plants before, and just looked them up- jeez, what did such a beautiful plant have to do to end up with two really ugly common names lol
Note Beginners frogs drink through their skin. It's very important to choose their water carefully and also to provide the clean water each day that they can soak (drink) in.
Idk about that there's a ton of green tree frogs that live out by my grandparents sewage pond and it's literally the septic system so not really an ideal water source imo but the frogs seem to love it
I wonder if they are fruit-fly-proof now. For everyone keeping the smaller frogs (o. pumilio etc. that require small prey) the old exo-terra's are a nightmare! We are always tearing into the doors and putting finer mesh in them, trying creative solutions for the gap between the doors (see through poster holders work nicely, als molding your own seal with aquarium kit) and it never looks really great...that's why the full glass euro-styles are so much more popular over here: at least they are build escape-proof!)
SPONGE IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!! I was the one who surrendered her I miss her so much but I’m so glad she found a great home she’s the best Tree frog ever! I’m so happy to see how much she’s grown! It’s such a better home for her and I’m so glad you decided to keep her. Also she does get little green bits all around her periodically. Sometimes they go away and come back P.S. sponge absolutely adores any kind of coconut hide especially the ones without a bottom.
Having a background printed on the back of the packaging is brilliant. Beautiful setup! ALSO heck I wish that aquariums came with a built-in drain system! That would be sooooooooooooooooooooo useful, OMG.
Some types of aquariums do, usually the larger ones that have sump filters, and those that use external canister filters can easily have a drain valve added to the tubing if there isn't one built into the filter itself. For smaller aquariums it isn't practical to have a hole in the bottom unless the glass is very well supported because it seriously weakens the structural integrity, and it's also a point where leakage is very likely to occur. The other issue is substrate or debris clogging the drain, it would be a real issue if you have a planted aquarium or simply just a sand bottom (which is better than gravel for a lot of fish anyway)
Had grey tree frogs for years. I loved, loved them. They had great personalities. Rescued most of them, so they all had missing eyes or other injuries. We hand fed all of them and they were so friendly.
Out of all reptile youtube channels. Snake discovery is by far my fav. Everyrhing is so educational yet still easy to understand. And it feels like Ed and Emily are having a conversation with you not talking at you. Love you guys! Loved following your journey and love your vids!
I found one of these lil guys hibernating in my AC unit but when we brought it back inside she woke up from the warmth. So we decided to let her stay inside for the night, and since she used more energy than she was supposed to we gave her a few crickets (from my green tree pet) and let her go in the morning. It was adorable!
Awesome video! Question for those with frog knowledge: I see a lot of warnings about impaction from substrate for tree frogs, especially White’s. Is there a specific mix of substrates or something to avoid if you want to do bioactive? Thanks in advance 😊
I recommend substrate consisting of smaller pieces just in case a piece is ingested :) That being said, I have seen a pacman frog pass a huge piece of Cocoblox (large coconut husk chunks) before! I'm sure it's not something you want to risk though ;)
All my frogs are already in the normal exo terras, but I can't wait to turn those enclosures into snake enclosures and buy some of these frog/humidity specific exoterras, this is revolutionary 🐸🥳
I don't have reptiles or amphibians, no intention of getting any, but I keep watching all the videos Emily and Ed put out, and have for years. Thank you for keeping me entertained
Wonderful! Can you please do more bioactive terrarium videos for other species, please? I would love to see other reptile and amphibian care videos like this!
Yes! I’d love to see more like this where you’re using things as if you’re just a starting out in the reptile keeping hobby. Information like today’s video is super helpful for newbies who aren’t sure where to start, and takes the mystery out of what’s really needed and what helps make the enclosure more enjoyable for the inhabitants and for us viewing them. 😁
Oh and, let me share a story! Okay when I was young I would be at my grandma’s house and it was always rainy! Every time it would rain I would go outside and watch the grass. Why you ask? Well the grass would move and I would go towards the moving grass (VERY CAREFULLY) Because.. if you were patient you would see a little baby frog! And there were hundreds! I loved holding them and just watching them hop around. Ty for reading lol
Sponge is so adorable. And a lovely name for a lil frog. I always forget that we here in the midwest have tree frogs until I see them again, they always make me so happy when i see one. They are just so hecking adorable.
Hi guys, I love your channel and have become obsessed with anything reptile (mostly snakes) over the holidays because of this channel. I think it would be really cool if you guys did a “day in the life” video to see what your busy busy days look like. From feeding animals to talking to customers, I think we would all enjoy it 😊 ❤️ love you guys
White's tree frogs are really easy too! My first tree frogs were wild caught Pacific Chorus frogs and I had one named Susie that lived a really long time and she even had Cataracts she was so old. I first saw those frog soap holders on Facebook. I think almost all frog owners have those...lol 😂 I have one too...my fat White's tree frog sits in there when he's not sitting in his water dish. He is almost always sitting in his water dish.
This was really helpful. I just found a tree frog and I named him Kamoo. Right now he's in a big ice cream tub (washed or course) and he's really good 💯
Grey tree frogs were my first frog, I was a pre-teen and just found the poor guy outside. I was woefully unequiped to properly care for him but he really started my passion for petcare! I keep all sorts of amphibians and reptiles now and am old enough to know better lol
As I opened RUclips I said give me some snakes! give me some snakes! I was not disappointed. Thanks Emily and Ed, I had a bad day. This made it worth it.
I used to catch pacific green tree frogs all the time as a kid, my grandfather had a cabin in the washington coastal forest we'd stay at and he even dug out some areas in the woods for water to collect for wildlife, always lots of mud and sometimes we'd see frog eggs too!
Charles! I loved the montage, it made me really happy, love the way you edited that together. Man I love snake discovery's lessons. So many people are going to want a new pet. And what do you do before you get that pet. You do research, I'm so happy that for reptiles, amphibians, and rex you're going to see such amazing information. I love you snake discovery!
Wandering Dude! Lmao! I'm a professional plant technician. Living in Colorado, a Florida tree frog came in on a shipment of plants from that state. I took her home, set her up in aquarium and kept her for over 5 years. I know it was female because she never croaked. Awesome little creature
@@sasquatchdonut2674Np. I know, they are all over the trees in my Texas yard. The brown one was in a shipment of plants transported from Florida to Colorado. Last year, I saw a green one that had also come in on a shipment of plants to a Dallas greenhouse. Cute little critter.
I absolutely love this channel, I got into snakes and geckos because of you and I’m going to my first expo on the 22nd. Although my parents won’t let me get pets I’m so excited to be learning about them, seeing them and maybe handle them at the expo!!
Word of warning about crickets in bioactive enclosures. I fed my bearded dragon crickets in her bioactive and now they have setup shop in there for better or worse. The chirping never ends 😱. There are still crickets and she hasnt been fed them in 7 months.
Can't tell you guys how much I'd been hoping you would make a care guide on gray tree frogs. I have sixteen juvenile cope's grays I raised from eggs I rescued from my above ground pool this summer. I feel it's pretty far to say I've ravaged the internet to learn how to care for them, as they are my first pet herps. That said, I still watch/read any care guide I can find, as I want to be sure I'm giving my froglets the best care I can. I'm also considering whether I want to breed them eventually.
I actually have a green tree frog! I believe I bought her as an adult or subadult because when I went in the store they had such a tiny little frog! This is helpful to see some things I’ve been doing wrong because of the papers the pet store goves
Oh hey, the species I use to work with/study is finally getting some attention. Now, which version do you have? 2n or 4n? Also, just gotta say, they are also very easy to grow from tadpoles, so if you are collecting your own, you only need 1 tadpole, change water with well shook aged water daily, clean up poos with a turkey baster. High quality algae wafers made for fish are sufficient. Bloat can be treated with a single boiled pea (outer skin broken off) if needed, though it is rare in this species. Wingless fruit flies (or gnats collected from outside if working with wild ones) for livery. And friendly reminder to never release a home grown amphibian back into the wild if you have captive bred amphibians in the household, captive bred animals often carry diseases that can cause local die offs. Not so sure about that high humidity thing though, probably varies with population. They aren't really found at especially high humidity in the wild where I studied them. Temperature... population I worked with was temperit, and liked roughly the same as a human with brumation at very cold temps and heavy breeding behavior if it gets on the hot side... regarding the cleaning crew... Greys are a bit more... variable in the extent that they will go to eat things than other tree based amphibians (I have seen them going through leaf litter), so... good luck with that.
This is just the video for parents. It is just the one to watch to get everything one-stop-shop. We can refer to this for the shopping list, and for care. Takes the guesswork out of it. It is important that parents know how these should be cared for so that children can be supervised. Parents are busy, and this is an excellent resource. Thanks so much! Also, it is a great research tool, for helping to pick out just the right pet. It's great to know about the handleability of each pet. I would love to watch more of these. Perhaps one with a complete setup and care guide for a beginning lizard type? Is there one that doesn't get to big? If we were to get one we wouldn't want to upgrade the tank, we would want to start out in a big enough one for it to grow into. We don't have a ton of space. One of the reasons I don't keep goldfish. They get huge.
Just curious. What is done with the enclosures once you have finished with them when making your how to care videos, since the animals live in the zoo?
I had zero clue we had tree frogs in the U.S. lol Color me dumb but I thought those cuties were only tropical - you learn something new everyday! Thank you Em and Ed!
Thank you so much I caught a pacific chorus frog at work and took it home with me so it wouldn't get stepped on, this is really helpful for someone who has never owned terrestrial frogs before
Awesome Video! I learnt a few things about tree frogs I never knew! Also I do see those kinds of frogs often up here in Canada primarily at the ravine by my house during the spring and summer!
i actually owner cope grey tree frogs! they were generally hard to get to eat, but Sooooo adorable 💞 i found mine outside my house :)) it looks like it has moss on it!
When keeping frogs together...isn't it best to make sure that they are close to the same size so they don't eat each other? I actually had put a small frog in with a bigger one and the little one jumped and the big one "ate" it but then spit it back out. That was scary though.
@@snowlunawolfq8492 Yeah I know bullfrogs will eat anything that fits in their mouths. The pacific chorus frogs I don't think will since that's the species that spit it back out. I did separate them after that though...
For most species if they're all adults I think it's normally fine. If you already have adult frogs and get some additional juvenile ones I would recommend housing them separately until they are full grown.
@@sixoffcenter80 Yeah that's been my plan because I think I want to get some more. My one frog is waaaay bigger than the other one but they have lived together since before I got them and I have had them for like 7 years...I think...something like that. I have a really big enclosure though and I think it would be fun to have a couple more....
I love these frogs so much. When I was a kid they lived in the cracks on the edge of my grandma's swimming pool. You would think the chlorine would bother them but they seemed just fine. I see them often on the windows of my house at night hunting bugs, or hiding in my plants outside during the day. I see them outside so often I have no desire to keep one as a pet!
This is so cool I'm planning to get the Exo-Terra BioActive Terrarium Size 18"L x 18"W x 18"H for my isopods I'm in between housing right now so sometimes I rely on other people to mist my isopods and sometimes they over missed it's really hard to get access water out of a critter keeper
I'm actually super happy because I managed to breed my grey tree frogs and my green tree frogs over the summer and have over 50 tadpoles now! Im excited to see how many of the tadpoles reach adulthood. I have an old 4x2x2 from when my water monitor was a baby which I plan to turn into a bio active communal enclosure for them!
@@snakelizard2343 I have been going through all the comments with reply’s and pretty much all of them have these bot replies, so I have been reporting all that I can find! These particular bots are everywhere at the moment! The last couple of days I am seeing them a lot and on channels that would likely have kids watching. It’s sooo inappropriate!
@@snakelizard2343 I didn’t want to include my response with what I wrote about the other issue! I absolutely adore tree frogs! I live in a sub tropical area of Australia and we have the most adorable green tree frogs that I see often at nighttime in my garden. Well, about a year ago after hanging up some washing outside, I was walking to go back inside when I saw something move out of the corner of my eye! I had this old plastic ice cream tub on the ground in my back garden, it was handy from storing stuff! Well, I just had some stones in it, but it was also full of water from the rain and I discovered, quite a large number of tadpoles! I didn’t know how long they had been there! But I reckon it had to have been at least a week or so, because the tadpoles were not that small. They weren’t big either, but they didn’t look like they had just come out of the frogspawn phase! They were amazing, I couldn’t stop watching them! I left them in that container for a while, until they got big enough that I figured they needed a bit more space. The only problem was it hadn’t rained for a while and I knew that tap water wasn’t supposed to be any good for them, so I decided to take a walk to my local canal with a large bucket, and took some water from there. It seemed to be fine! The other problem was that I also live in an area where we have a lot of Cane toads, which are invasive and they actually kill green tree frogs, as well as dogs, if a dog was to pick one up with its mouth. Cane toads have these glands on their back, just behind their eyes, and they will secrete a milky poison from there and all over their backs if they feel threatened. That poison has unfortunately killed a lot of pet dogs, cats too, although I get the feeling that cats seem to know not to mess with them, as I have 2 cats and one of them will pick anything up with his mouth, if it moves! He just likes to play with other living things! He rarely eats any sort of creatures! But he just looks at the cane toads for some reason, even the small ones. So, my problem was that I didn’t know if my tadpoles were green tree frogs or cane toads! People here go out of their way to kill any cane toads that they come across. I’m not built that way. I can’t kill anything. I just can’t bring myself to do it. Anyone I told about my tadpoles, told me to get rid of them! To just pour them and the water out on to the grass and just walk away! They were all convinced that I was raising and protecting cane toads tadpoles! Not that anyone actually came to my house to have a look at them! Anyway, I wasn’t about to do that. I couldn’t tell yet what they were going to be once they matured enough. So, I continued to look after them, I sometimes fed them lettuce and cut up cucumber, which they devoured! Then all of a sudden, a few of them started developing back legs! Which were completely useless at first! Then their cute little arms started appearing! And then……….. they started turning a beautiful bright green!! I had green tree frogs! I’m sure about 100 of them! Well, they still had their tails, but they started climbing out of their little home pond ie my big green bucket! I thought that they would stay while they still had their tails, but these little guys were determined, so I figured they must know when they are ready for the big bad world. But they were still so tiny! Only about the size of the tip of my little finger! They all seemed to grow and mature at different rates. Some of the tadpoles stayed so tiny for so long, even while some of the others were starting to develop legs! Then all of a sudden, it was like they had permission to start growing now! So, every day I had at least a couple, up to about 6-7 little froglets, that decided they were ready for the world! So, I moved my bucket and placed it in a part of my garden where it was surrounded by plants that the froglets could easily hide in, also, some of these plants collected little pools of water in the centre of them, like little swimming pools big enough for one froglet! I checked on them constantly of course! Until they had all left when they were ready. I can tell you that they all survived while they were with me. I was so happy that I could provide them with a safe place to start their lives, from frogspawn to tadpoles to froglets, until they decided that they wanted to leave! If any had decided that they wanted to stay, I would have given them an amazing home! But no! Of course not! Lol About a week after all of them had gone on their way, I was just looking at some of the plants in my garden, and I saw the tiniest little green tree frog! It had to be one of mine! It was only the size of the tip of my biggest finger (not thumb!) and it was sitting right inside the centre of a plant that was just the perfect size for this little frog to sit in! Honestly, it was the cutest thing I have ever seen! That was the last that I ever saw of them, at least that I am aware of. Generally, I only see fully grown adult green tree frogs and we have at least 3-4 that I know of, that seem to live around our house, the outside of it. One seems to spend its day sleeping inside a drain coming from the roof of the front of our house. I go for a walk every evening and often it is dark when I get home. Some nights I look up and see this little face peering down at me from the roof of the house, right at where the drain opening is! Anyway, I have just realised that I have been typing for quite a while! I am so sorry for writing you a book about my green tree frog tadpole experience! Enjoy having your tadpoles and froglets when they get to that point!
@@leannepaxton5012 no worries! This was fun to read!! I actually have a cane toad who I captured in Florida as well as a Cuban tree frog captured in Florida (along with a gold tegu and green iguana I caught but I digress) and I absolutely love frogs and toads! I have 52 amphibians (46 of which are frogs and toads) and they are a joy to keep and are useful for scenting food for my pickier snakes like my sunbeam and hognose! I absolutely can’t wait for the little tree frog tadpoles to hatch! In terms of tree frogs I currently own: mossy tree frogs, red eyed tree frog, starry night feed frog, green tree frogs, grey tree frogs, Cuban tree frogs, a whites tree frog, South American bird poop frogs, harlequin tree frog and the tree frog tadpoles!
I had 3 Grey Tree Frogs. They are my favorite frogs. I saved eggs from my pool before the pool was shocked. Raised them from eggs to frogs. I had 1 male and 2 females.
Ah I love your videos so much and you're really good at making these types of videos in particular! I was considering buying a crestie at some point and was wondering if you could make a care video for them? I've done some research but your input and what is essentially a tutorial on setting up a bioactive enclosure would be awesome. I'm not sure if you have a crestie tho >.>
i love grey tree frogs! while working at my local state park during the summer i found several (what i believed to be) puddles filled with grey tree frog tadpoles! i checked on them everyday and eventually found little froglets hopping away from the puddles. so cute!
Amazing video, I own a pair of Cope's grey tree frogs and love using an 18 x 18 x 24 enclosure for them. They live to use every inch of space and quite honestly I'm thinking of upgrading them even further. Highly recommend these adorable little lard lads and a large enclosure to boot
Are you planning on breeding them? I'm just asking cause I'm used to frogs being born as tadpoles and growing up into frogs but this terrarium doesn't have a placement really for that as I assume the water dish is for drinking
We have a large population of grey tree frogs in our backyard. The breed in the unused kiddie pool and onto the cover for the unused adult pool that has been touched in almost a decade . Love listening to them at night, so many tadpools to. They thrive like crazy back there
Mine must be a girl! I never hear calling at night. A coworker found her in the factory covered in dust and dehydrated. Took her home and made a viv for her
very glad to see exoterra upgrading their enclousres! I've had mixed feelings about them for years as they really do make some really great reptiile supplies. But i've had issues with their enclosures just being mixed quality? my current enclosure for my leopard gecko was cut a bit wrong so i had to go in and fix it lol. also the gray tree frogs are so cute.
Awesome video! You should do baby bearded dragon breeding and hatching videos as baby bearded dragons are so cute just as cute as baby snakes. Love all your content ❤️!
this is a very helpful instructions video my friend just recently got 2 gray tree frogs and she doesnt know much about them this video will help her out so much! also can you make a video on how to breed frogs shes planning on starting to breed them once shes learned enough about them maybe one day when she makes a frog breeding buisness you could buy some from her!
Well I’m looking into getting White tree frogs! But I think this video was helpful! I enjoyed watching the tank being set up!❤ And I’ve been doing tons of research!! Specifically on White tree frogs, and the cost to buy everything could be better, it will be my first time owning an amphibian, but I have no doubt that I can totally be able to take care of the white tree frogs. I’ve made an entire list of things I need for the Tank, as well as buying one, including prices, it’s certainly not going to be cheap! But I think it will be worth it! I want to start with a 90 gallon tank, it’s a 24x24 (width, and height is 36 inches.) I will add in some Golden Pothos, it’s actually my favorite plant to grow! And it was my first one! 😊 I also want to do a bio active environment! I watched your videos on isopods and Springtails!! It was very helpful!! I was gonna go with dwarf isopods! I hope that’s ok to put in White tree frogs habitat. And I only plan to get two froggos! I decided to get a frog out of the other lovely options, because I was too afraid to own a fish, or a snake, or a spider. And frogs don’t creep me out! They are cute!! Well snakes and Spiders are cute to! Don’t get me wrong. But my heart problems can better handle a frog if you get my drift!😊
Emily and Ed I absolutely love all your videos and I wish I could buy your merch but my mum thinks RUclips is trash so I can't and I don't know how to send letters overseas as I'm from Australia but I love your videos, keep up the good work 🦎🐍🐊🐢
All my students ask me about crested geckos. I have one at home but would love to see a professional video from you guys! We watch your videos in class when the topics are appropriate for our lessons.
It’s always best to do lots of research on amphibians and reptiles so even if it’s believed that everything is head it’s always best to play it safe (:
Love your videos, I met you guys at Tinley last year! Do you know if a bio active enclosure is good for a gargoyle gecko and what do you think would be a good tank for it? Also for a bio active enclosure do you need to have a drain?
I kept a couple Gray Treefrogs in my school classroom and my students LOVED watching them (especially at feeding time!) and listening to the male vocalize (often during a quiet worktime!). I only did a tiny bit of research beforehand and am glad that my setup wasn't all the different from yours. Whew! Anyway, they thrived and even burrowed down into the substrate for months during the winter. We thought that they had somehow escaped until they popped out a few months later refreshed and alive! Great episode!
What did you do when you couldn’t find them did you still just leave food in the inclosure
Hi are you a teacher if you are what school
@@mikehawk260 I thought they had escaped and it was a large enclosure so I just kept it as a terrarium (or so I thought). I watered the plants and that was it. I suppose their metabolism slowed down and they just didn't require calories. They got moisture through their skin and just appeared one day. Blew my mind. They did enjoy a bunch of crickets directly afterwards. They may have eaten some mealworms that escaped a food dish but I don't think so. Anyway, they're hardy creatures. They live in my yard in Western New York (I hear them all the time and see them on my deck) and survive the winters just fine.
@@tammykoelzer9141 At an elementary school in the Rochester New York area.
Patrick Wilson? I loved you in Insidious
Congrats Charles for getting the permanent position as the editor for snake discovery, what a privilege 👏 👌!!
@Marissa Christina 👑🔞 This person won’t stop commenting links to explicit material…don’t click on it guys
@@elena_____308 don’t directly reply tho them! Just ignore and report them. There’s a massive issue with bots all over RUclips, and if you reply to them it can trick the RUclips algorithm into thinking they’re real comments.
@@elena_____308 ikr
Charles is doing some amazing work, the one thing I missed however was the cute and funny "speech bubbles" from the animals. Other than that great job
Same
Same. And electro swing music that Emily loves so much.
This, and while I appreciated the artistic touch to the frog montage, I found the constant colour, angle, and panning change made it harder to appreciate the natural beauty of the frogs in their new enclosure. Perhaps a sort of mix would be best
@@destructioniscreation it was nice but definitely distracting to say the least
same
I appreciate that you used the term "wandering dude" for your tradescantia! I haven't heard a lot of people outside the plant community call it that
I noticed that too! I support moving away from the old common name...
I've only ever known it by the other common name, but at least now I'll know what the heck people are talking about when they call it the new name
I had this same exact thought! I love calling the ones with purple hues wandering jewels as well !
I've never heard of these plants before, and just looked them up- jeez, what did such a beautiful plant have to do to end up with two really ugly common names lol
@@MermaidIllustration I have a few of those! Got props from a coworker of mine and they're gorgeous! Might have to start using that name instead.
Note Beginners frogs drink through their skin. It's very important to choose their water carefully and also to provide the clean water each day that they can soak (drink) in.
I was surprised they didn't add a soaking bowl to the enclosure.
They will also poop in the water dish so it is vital to change the water and rinse the dish out EVERY day
Idk about that there's a ton of green tree frogs that live out by my grandparents sewage pond and it's literally the septic system so not really an ideal water source imo but the frogs seem to love it
I like the fact that EXO terra has updated some of their enclosures.
I wonder if they are fruit-fly-proof now.
For everyone keeping the smaller frogs (o. pumilio etc. that require small prey) the old exo-terra's are a nightmare!
We are always tearing into the doors and putting finer mesh in them, trying creative solutions for the gap between the doors (see through poster holders work nicely, als molding your own seal with aquarium kit) and it never looks really great...that's why the full glass euro-styles are so much more popular over here: at least they are build escape-proof!)
@@muurrarium9460 and have better locks
SPONGE IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!! I was the one who surrendered her I miss her so much but I’m so glad she found a great home she’s the best Tree frog ever! I’m so happy to see how much she’s grown! It’s such a better home for her and I’m so glad you decided to keep her. Also she does get little green bits all around her periodically. Sometimes they go away and come back
P.S. sponge absolutely adores any kind of coconut hide especially the ones without a bottom.
Having a background printed on the back of the packaging is brilliant. Beautiful setup!
ALSO heck I wish that aquariums came with a built-in drain system! That would be sooooooooooooooooooooo useful, OMG.
Some types of aquariums do, usually the larger ones that have sump filters, and those that use external canister filters can easily have a drain valve added to the tubing if there isn't one built into the filter itself. For smaller aquariums it isn't practical to have a hole in the bottom unless the glass is very well supported because it seriously weakens the structural integrity, and it's also a point where leakage is very likely to occur. The other issue is substrate or debris clogging the drain, it would be a real issue if you have a planted aquarium or simply just a sand bottom (which is better than gravel for a lot of fish anyway)
Yep, as mentioned, sumps use the same bulkheads. You can drill directly to the bottom of the aquarium.
Had grey tree frogs for years. I loved, loved them. They had great personalities. Rescued most of them, so they all had missing eyes or other injuries. We hand fed all of them and they were so friendly.
Out of all reptile youtube channels. Snake discovery is by far my fav. Everyrhing is so educational yet still easy to understand. And it feels like Ed and Emily are having a conversation with you not talking at you. Love you guys! Loved following your journey and love your vids!
I found one of these lil guys hibernating in my AC unit but when we brought it back inside she woke up from the warmth. So we decided to let her stay inside for the night, and since she used more energy than she was supposed to we gave her a few crickets (from my green tree pet) and let her go in the morning. It was adorable!
I love that this exoterra opens at the side instead of having a line down the middle!
Awesome video! Question for those with frog knowledge: I see a lot of warnings about impaction from substrate for tree frogs, especially White’s. Is there a specific mix of substrates or something to avoid if you want to do bioactive? Thanks in advance 😊
I recommend substrate consisting of smaller pieces just in case a piece is ingested :) That being said, I have seen a pacman frog pass a huge piece of Cocoblox (large coconut husk chunks) before! I'm sure it's not something you want to risk though ;)
I usually feed my four frogs in a separate enclosure where they can find food more easily and don't have to worry about impaction
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All my frogs are already in the normal exo terras, but I can't wait to turn those enclosures into snake enclosures and buy some of these frog/humidity specific exoterras, this is revolutionary 🐸🥳
I don't have reptiles or amphibians, no intention of getting any, but I keep watching all the videos Emily and Ed put out, and have for years. Thank you for keeping me entertained
me too! they make me want one but I see the dedication it takes and I know I'm not financially and mentally ready for that commitment! XD
We watch snake discovery every night for over two years! My daughter is obsessed! It’s part of her night routine and I enjoy it very much as well.
Same here with our 3 year old son!
Wonderful! Can you please do more bioactive terrarium videos for other species, please? I would love to see other reptile and amphibian care videos like this!
Yes! I’d love to see more like this where you’re using things as if you’re just a starting out in the reptile keeping hobby. Information like today’s video is super helpful for newbies who aren’t sure where to start, and takes the mystery out of what’s really needed and what helps make the enclosure more enjoyable for the inhabitants and for us viewing them. 😁
As someone actively looking for resources of how to care for gray tree frogs, this is a great tool! Makes me even more excited to get a frog!
Oh and, let me share a story!
Okay when I was young I would be at my grandma’s house and it was always rainy!
Every time it would rain I would go outside and watch the grass. Why you ask?
Well the grass would move and I would go towards the moving grass (VERY CAREFULLY)
Because.. if you were patient you would see a little baby frog! And there were hundreds! I loved holding them and just watching them hop around.
Ty for reading lol
Thanks so much for sharing this video❤
You saved my gray tree frog from the things I was doing wrong thank you so much!❤
Who else wakes up every morning and thinks: yay! Emily posts today!
Don't forget Ed
Yes sorry, I am exited for Emily and Ed to post!
I enjoy the way Emily says roots
THE BEST REPTILE RUclips CHANNEL !! ❤️❤️
Sponge is so adorable. And a lovely name for a lil frog. I always forget that we here in the midwest have tree frogs until I see them again, they always make me so happy when i see one. They are just so hecking adorable.
Hi guys, I love your channel and have become obsessed with anything reptile (mostly snakes) over the holidays because of this channel. I think it would be really cool if you guys did a “day in the life” video to see what your busy busy days look like. From feeding animals to talking to customers, I think we would all enjoy it 😊 ❤️ love you guys
agree! great idea!
I would really enjoy a video like that. Good idea!
White's tree frogs are really easy too! My first tree frogs were wild caught Pacific Chorus frogs and I had one named Susie that lived a really long time and she even had Cataracts she was so old.
I first saw those frog soap holders on Facebook. I think almost all frog owners have those...lol 😂
I have one too...my fat White's tree frog sits in there when he's not sitting in his water dish. He is almost always sitting in his water dish.
This was really helpful. I just found a tree frog and I named him Kamoo. Right now he's in a big ice cream tub (washed or course) and he's really good 💯
Grey tree frogs were my first frog, I was a pre-teen and just found the poor guy outside. I was woefully unequiped to properly care for him but he really started my passion for petcare! I keep all sorts of amphibians and reptiles now and am old enough to know better lol
As I opened RUclips I said give me some snakes! give me some snakes! I was not disappointed. Thanks Emily and Ed, I had a bad day. This made it worth it.
I used to catch pacific green tree frogs all the time as a kid, my grandfather had a cabin in the washington coastal forest we'd stay at and he even dug out some areas in the woods for water to collect for wildlife, always lots of mud and sometimes we'd see frog eggs too!
I love how the wild caught frog is the most chill being held.
Charles! I loved the montage, it made me really happy, love the way you edited that together. Man I love snake discovery's lessons. So many people are going to want a new pet. And what do you do before you get that pet. You do research, I'm so happy that for reptiles, amphibians, and rex you're going to see such amazing information. I love you snake discovery!
Wandering Dude! Lmao! I'm a professional plant technician. Living in Colorado, a Florida tree frog came in on a shipment of plants from that state. I took her home, set her up in aquarium and kept her for over 5 years. I know it was female because she never croaked. Awesome little creature
Was it a brown tree frog or a green tree frog?
@@sasquatchdonut2674 brown, not a White's...
@@joyceb.8194 ok. There is a green tree frog though native to the south. That’s why I’m asking.
@@sasquatchdonut2674Np. I know, they are all over the trees in my Texas yard. The brown one was in a shipment of plants transported from Florida to Colorado. Last year, I saw a green one that had also come in on a shipment of plants to a Dallas greenhouse. Cute little critter.
@@joyceb.8194 yup. I’m in Texas as well. I’ve only seen 2 of the frogs in the wild but they’re pretty little things.
I love this! I have grays that I raised from tadpoles I found in an abandoned pool. They’re very cute.
I absolutely love this channel, I got into snakes and geckos because of you and I’m going to my first expo on the 22nd. Although my parents won’t let me get pets I’m so excited to be learning about them, seeing them and maybe handle them at the expo!!
Word of warning about crickets in bioactive enclosures. I fed my bearded dragon crickets in her bioactive and now they have setup shop in there for better or worse. The chirping never ends 😱. There are still crickets and she hasnt been fed them in 7 months.
Having the packaging double as a background like that is really smart and more companies should do that.
Can't tell you guys how much I'd been hoping you would make a care guide on gray tree frogs. I have sixteen juvenile cope's grays I raised from eggs I rescued from my above ground pool this summer. I feel it's pretty far to say I've ravaged the internet to learn how to care for them, as they are my first pet herps. That said, I still watch/read any care guide I can find, as I want to be sure I'm giving my froglets the best care I can.
I'm also considering whether I want to breed them eventually.
Greys were my first and still favorite tree frog native to my area as well. Great guide.
Breeding butter and wax worm adults is a great meal item and easy to do.
Omg!!! Love the new editing! Emily did an amazing job for years, but this has really helped take all ya’lls videos to the next level. Great job!
I have been waiting for this video! Love this species! So cute!
As someone who's accent really emphasizes the oo sounds in roots I really love how Emily says ruts.
I actually have a green tree frog! I believe I bought her as an adult or subadult because when I went in the store they had such a tiny little frog! This is helpful to see some things I’ve been doing wrong because of the papers the pet store goves
I found two of them in my backyard a few months ago and they are so chubby and so cute!
Oh hey, the species I use to work with/study is finally getting some attention. Now, which version do you have? 2n or 4n? Also, just gotta say, they are also very easy to grow from tadpoles, so if you are collecting your own, you only need 1 tadpole, change water with well shook aged water daily, clean up poos with a turkey baster. High quality algae wafers made for fish are sufficient. Bloat can be treated with a single boiled pea (outer skin broken off) if needed, though it is rare in this species. Wingless fruit flies (or gnats collected from outside if working with wild ones) for livery. And friendly reminder to never release a home grown amphibian back into the wild if you have captive bred amphibians in the household, captive bred animals often carry diseases that can cause local die offs. Not so sure about that high humidity thing though, probably varies with population. They aren't really found at especially high humidity in the wild where I studied them. Temperature... population I worked with was temperit, and liked roughly the same as a human with brumation at very cold temps and heavy breeding behavior if it gets on the hot side... regarding the cleaning crew... Greys are a bit more... variable in the extent that they will go to eat things than other tree based amphibians (I have seen them going through leaf litter), so... good luck with that.
This is just the video for parents. It is just the one to watch to get everything one-stop-shop. We can refer to this for the shopping list, and for care. Takes the guesswork out of it. It is important that parents know how these should be cared for so that children can be supervised. Parents are busy, and this is an excellent resource. Thanks so much! Also, it is a great research tool, for helping to pick out just the right pet. It's great to know about the handleability of each pet. I would love to watch more of these. Perhaps one with a complete setup and care guide for a beginning lizard type? Is there one that doesn't get to big? If we were to get one we wouldn't want to upgrade the tank, we would want to start out in a big enough one for it to grow into. We don't have a ton of space. One of the reasons I don't keep goldfish. They get huge.
The snake discovery frog montage was SO funny.
I really enjoy watching the habitat set up videos. Fun.
Just curious. What is done with the enclosures once you have finished with them when making your how to care videos, since the animals live in the zoo?
The have shelves to place those exoterras in the zoo.
Absolutely loved the frog montage. Nicely done Charles!
I had zero clue we had tree frogs in the U.S. lol
Color me dumb but I thought those cuties were only tropical - you learn something new everyday! Thank you Em and Ed!
They live in Canada too
Thank you so much I caught a pacific chorus frog at work and took it home with me so it wouldn't get stepped on, this is really helpful for someone who has never owned terrestrial frogs before
Awesome Video! I learnt a few things about tree frogs I never knew! Also I do see those kinds of frogs often up here in Canada primarily at the ravine by my house during the spring and summer!
Great Video Snake Discovery Team!
The time was well spent on the montage.
Kudos to the photographers and Charles!
great video keep up the great work and maybe could you guys do a before and after video of the facility???
Thank you for that beautiful frog montage Charles! 👏👏👏👏👏
i actually owner cope grey tree frogs! they were generally hard to get to eat, but Sooooo adorable 💞 i found mine outside my house :)) it looks like it has moss on it!
Another great thing about a front opening enclosure is it's a lot easier to manipulate decor, water dishes, etc from straight-on rather than above.
I have been waiting all day, and finally they post!
Its always a good day when snake discovery posts!
Hi Emily! I have been here for a long time and just wanted to say u are amazing and i think it’s really really cool that u opened your own zoo/shop
I am appreciating the background where Emily looks like a flower coming out if the leaves. :)
When keeping frogs together...isn't it best to make sure that they are close to the same size so they don't eat each other? I actually had put a small frog in with a bigger one and the little one jumped and the big one "ate" it but then spit it back out. That was scary though.
I feel it might just depend on the species of frog
@@snowlunawolfq8492 Yeah I know bullfrogs will eat anything that fits in their mouths. The pacific chorus frogs I don't think will since that's the species that spit it back out. I did separate them after that though...
For most species if they're all adults I think it's normally fine. If you already have adult frogs and get some additional juvenile ones I would recommend housing them separately until they are full grown.
@@sixoffcenter80 Yeah that's been my plan because I think I want to get some more. My one frog is waaaay bigger than the other one but they have lived together since before I got them and I have had them for like 7 years...I think...something like that. I have a really big enclosure though and I think it would be fun to have a couple more....
I love these frogs so much. When I was a kid they lived in the cracks on the edge of my grandma's swimming pool. You would think the chlorine would bother them but they seemed just fine. I see them often on the windows of my house at night hunting bugs, or hiding in my plants outside during the day. I see them outside so often I have no desire to keep one as a pet!
This is so cool I'm planning to get the Exo-Terra BioActive Terrarium Size 18"L x 18"W x 18"H for my isopods I'm in between housing right now so sometimes I rely on other people to mist my isopods and sometimes they over missed it's really hard to get access water out of a critter keeper
I had one named buddy. I had him for 10 years and he was an adult when I found him. He was sooooo cool
I love these vids from you and others because it gives me all the info I need to do this when I have room for froggies.
Way to go Charles! 👏 really nice montage!
Love the enclosure setups in general!
I'm actually super happy because I managed to breed my grey tree frogs and my green tree frogs over the summer and have over 50 tadpoles now! Im excited to see how many of the tadpoles reach adulthood. I have an old 4x2x2 from when my water monitor was a baby which I plan to turn into a bio active communal enclosure for them!
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@@snakelizard2343 I have been going through all the comments with reply’s and pretty much all of them have these bot replies, so I have been reporting all that I can find!
These particular bots are everywhere at the moment! The last couple of days I am seeing them a lot and on channels that would likely have kids watching. It’s sooo inappropriate!
@@snakelizard2343 I didn’t want to include my response with what I wrote about the other issue!
I absolutely adore tree frogs! I live in a sub tropical area of Australia and we have the most adorable green tree frogs that I see often at nighttime in my garden.
Well, about a year ago after hanging up some washing outside, I was walking to go back inside when I saw something move out of the corner of my eye! I had this old plastic ice cream tub on the ground in my back garden, it was handy from storing stuff! Well, I just had some stones in it, but it was also full of water from the rain and I discovered, quite a large number of tadpoles!
I didn’t know how long they had been there! But I reckon it had to have been at least a week or so, because the tadpoles were not that small. They weren’t big either, but they didn’t look like they had just come out of the frogspawn phase!
They were amazing, I couldn’t stop watching them! I left them in that container for a while, until they got big enough that I figured they needed a bit more space. The only problem was it hadn’t rained for a while and I knew that tap water wasn’t supposed to be any good for them, so I decided to take a walk to my local canal with a large bucket, and took some water from there. It seemed to be fine!
The other problem was that I also live in an area where we have a lot of Cane toads, which are invasive and they actually kill green tree frogs, as well as dogs, if a dog was to pick one up with its mouth. Cane toads have these glands on their back, just behind their eyes, and they will secrete a milky poison from there and all over their backs if they feel threatened. That poison has unfortunately killed a lot of pet dogs, cats too, although I get the feeling that cats seem to know not to mess with them, as I have 2 cats and one of them will pick anything up with his mouth, if it moves! He just likes to play with other living things! He rarely eats any sort of creatures! But he just looks at the cane toads for some reason, even the small ones.
So, my problem was that I didn’t know if my tadpoles were green tree frogs or cane toads!
People here go out of their way to kill any cane toads that they come across. I’m not built that way. I can’t kill anything. I just can’t bring myself to do it.
Anyone I told about my tadpoles, told me to get rid of them! To just pour them and the water out on to the grass and just walk away! They were all convinced that I was raising and protecting cane toads tadpoles! Not that anyone actually came to my house to have a look at them!
Anyway, I wasn’t about to do that. I couldn’t tell yet what they were going to be once they matured enough.
So, I continued to look after them, I sometimes fed them lettuce and cut up cucumber, which they devoured!
Then all of a sudden, a few of them started developing back legs! Which were completely useless at first! Then their cute little arms started appearing!
And then……….. they started turning a beautiful bright green!! I had green tree frogs! I’m sure about 100 of them! Well, they still had their tails, but they started climbing out of their little home pond ie my big green bucket! I thought that they would stay while they still had their tails, but these little guys were determined, so I figured they must know when they are ready for the big bad world. But they were still so tiny! Only about the size of the tip of my little finger!
They all seemed to grow and mature at different rates. Some of the tadpoles stayed so tiny for so long, even while some of the others were starting to develop legs! Then all of a sudden, it was like they had permission to start growing now!
So, every day I had at least a couple, up to about 6-7 little froglets, that decided they were ready for the world! So, I moved my bucket and placed it in a part of my garden where it was surrounded by plants that the froglets could easily hide in, also, some of these plants collected little pools of water in the centre of them, like little swimming pools big enough for one froglet!
I checked on them constantly of course! Until they had all left when they were ready.
I can tell you that they all survived while they were with me. I was so happy that I could provide them with a safe place to start their lives, from frogspawn to tadpoles to froglets, until they decided that they wanted to leave! If any had decided that they wanted to stay, I would have given them an amazing home! But no! Of course not! Lol
About a week after all of them had gone on their way, I was just looking at some of the plants in my garden, and I saw the tiniest little green tree frog! It had to be one of mine! It was only the size of the tip of my biggest finger (not thumb!) and it was sitting right inside the centre of a plant that was just the perfect size for this little frog to sit in! Honestly, it was the cutest thing I have ever seen!
That was the last that I ever saw of them, at least that I am aware of. Generally, I only see fully grown adult green tree frogs and we have at least 3-4 that I know of, that seem to live around our house, the outside of it. One seems to spend its day sleeping inside a drain coming from the roof of the front of our house. I go for a walk every evening and often it is dark when I get home. Some nights I look up and see this little face peering down at me from the roof of the house, right at where the drain opening is!
Anyway, I have just realised that I have been typing for quite a while! I am so sorry for writing you a book about my green tree frog tadpole experience!
Enjoy having your tadpoles and froglets when they get to that point!
@@snakelizard2343 just report them
@@leannepaxton5012 no worries! This was fun to read!! I actually have a cane toad who I captured in Florida as well as a Cuban tree frog captured in Florida (along with a gold tegu and green iguana I caught but I digress) and I absolutely love frogs and toads! I have 52 amphibians (46 of which are frogs and toads) and they are a joy to keep and are useful for scenting food for my pickier snakes like my sunbeam and hognose! I absolutely can’t wait for the little tree frog tadpoles to hatch! In terms of tree frogs I currently own: mossy tree frogs, red eyed tree frog, starry night feed frog, green tree frogs, grey tree frogs, Cuban tree frogs, a whites tree frog, South American bird poop frogs, harlequin tree frog and the tree frog tadpoles!
I had 3 Grey Tree Frogs. They are my favorite frogs. I saved eggs from my pool before the pool was shocked. Raised them from eggs to frogs. I had 1 male and 2 females.
Absolutely love grey tree frogs! It is good to see them getting the attention they deserve. I just wish they were more commonly captive-bred.
The editing is so good. Good Job Charles
Ah I love your videos so much and you're really good at making these types of videos in particular! I was considering buying a crestie at some point and was wondering if you could make a care video for them? I've done some research but your input and what is essentially a tutorial on setting up a bioactive enclosure would be awesome. I'm not sure if you have a crestie tho >.>
i love grey tree frogs! while working at my local state park during the summer i found several (what i believed to be) puddles filled with grey tree frog tadpoles! i checked on them everyday and eventually found little froglets hopping away from the puddles. so cute!
Amazing video, I own a pair of Cope's grey tree frogs and love using an 18 x 18 x 24 enclosure for them. They live to use every inch of space and quite honestly I'm thinking of upgrading them even further. Highly recommend these adorable little lard lads and a large enclosure to boot
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Are you planning on breeding them? I'm just asking cause I'm used to frogs being born as tadpoles and growing up into frogs but this terrarium doesn't have a placement really for that as I assume the water dish is for drinking
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We have a large population of grey tree frogs in our backyard. The breed in the unused kiddie pool and onto the cover for the unused adult pool that has been touched in almost a decade . Love listening to them at night, so many tadpools to. They thrive like crazy back there
Huh, I looked up these frogs and found out they live here in Ontario too. I didn't realize we have native tree frogs in Canada.
Awwwww... he sang and sang and sang and she heard him and come to check it out... and got brought into paradise!
Mine must be a girl! I never hear calling at night. A coworker found her in the factory covered in dust and dehydrated. Took her home and made a viv for her
Cute little froggos. The whites tree frogs are personally my favourite
The way emily says roots is funny ahaha "ruts"
No way i was just watching one of your fan male videos when i got the notification for this video!
This seems like a good setup for a crested gecko too. Pls correct me if i am wrong
Thank you so much for this video my mum would love to see this because she loves frogs! I am a big fan of you so thank you!
very glad to see exoterra upgrading their enclousres! I've had mixed feelings about them for years as they really do make some really great reptiile supplies. But i've had issues with their enclosures just being mixed quality? my current enclosure for my leopard gecko was cut a bit wrong so i had to go in and fix it lol.
also the gray tree frogs are so cute.
Exo Terra did such a great job with these products!
Awesome video! You should do baby bearded dragon breeding and hatching videos as baby bearded dragons are so cute just as cute as baby snakes.
Love all your content ❤️!
I was looking for the Chameleon on the Merrill. The frogs are so adorable.
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this is a very helpful instructions video my friend just recently got 2 gray tree frogs and she doesnt know much about them this video will help her out so much! also can you make a video on how to breed frogs shes planning on starting to breed them once shes learned enough about them maybe one day when she makes a frog breeding buisness you could buy some from her!
Emily: “We can have two populations, and they can have a *war* “
Ed: **disapproving stare**
Emily: “Ooor they can co-exist peacefully, who knows.”
We can have three populations and they can have a world war. Emily woke up choosing violence today.
Well I’m looking into getting White tree frogs! But I think this video was helpful! I enjoyed watching the tank being set up!❤
And I’ve been doing tons of research!! Specifically on White tree frogs, and the cost to buy everything could be better, it will be my first time owning an amphibian, but I have no doubt that I can totally be able to take care of the white tree frogs. I’ve made an entire list of things I need for the Tank, as well as buying one, including prices, it’s certainly not going to be cheap! But I think it will be worth it! I want to start with a 90 gallon tank, it’s a 24x24 (width, and height is 36 inches.) I will add in some Golden Pothos, it’s actually my favorite plant to grow! And it was my first one! 😊
I also want to do a bio active environment! I watched your videos on isopods and Springtails!! It was very helpful!! I was gonna go with dwarf isopods! I hope that’s ok to put in White tree frogs habitat. And I only plan to get two froggos!
I decided to get a frog out of the other lovely options, because I was too afraid to own a fish, or a snake, or a spider. And frogs don’t creep me out! They are cute!! Well snakes and Spiders are cute to! Don’t get me wrong. But my heart problems can better handle a frog if you get my drift!😊
Emily and Ed I absolutely love all your videos and I wish I could buy your merch but my mum thinks RUclips is trash so I can't and I don't know how to send letters overseas as I'm from Australia but I love your videos, keep up the good work 🦎🐍🐊🐢
All my students ask me about crested geckos. I have one at home but would love to see a professional video from you guys! We watch your videos in class when the topics are appropriate for our lessons.
Great video like always!! Quick question, does this video have everything you need to know about taking care for gray treefrogs??
Watch it
I did watch it. I'm just wondering if there's anything else I need, also it's better to know this then not know it.
It’s always best to do lots of research on amphibians and reptiles so even if it’s believed that everything is head it’s always best to play it safe (:
@@GRANNi3S.G0N3.WiLD_ I would look at a few other articles online
@@animusanemone8433 Good Idea!
Happy new year Emily, Ed, crew and animals!
Love your videos, I met you guys at Tinley last year! Do you know if a bio active enclosure is good for a gargoyle gecko and what do you think would be a good tank for it? Also for a bio active enclosure do you need to have a drain?
Gargs do great in bioactives! They need the drainage layer, not necessarily a drain, check out Serpadesign's crested and garg videos.
My mum is afraid of frogs but I think they are cute because you get so many different species. 🦋