Santa a.k.a. my husband agreed to bring me red eyed tree frogs to hang out on my work desk this year.
We went looking for them but couldn't find any captive bred red eyes in our area, and it's too cold to ship them to South Dakota right now. We wandered several pet shops, getting discouraged.
We found this little guy, a White's tree frog. Commonly known as "dumpy" tree frogs, they have similar care requirements to red eyes. He was alone and huddled in a corner. His companions had been sold. He had a face only a mother could love and was far from the eye candy we were looking for but he came home with us. My husband says we should turn the terrarium around so it faces the wall.
He is SUPER friendly and actually likes being held, unlike other frog species. He hopped onto my hand and I had to scrape him off back into his cage, at which point he immediately hopped right back on. I have never seen anything like it.
But there was another surprise. When my husband checked on him before bed he took this photo.
And this is him now. He is a baby blue morph, but he was so stressed and miserable in the pet shop that he had turned purplish brown.
The terrarium is an Exo Terra glass rainforest habitat, 18" wide x 18" deep x 24" high. Background, vines and some plants were included but I subbed out some of them. There's a half coconut shell hut and a large water dish that he likes to sit in. Substrate is clay hydro balls covered with mesh and topped with coconut mulch and sphagnum moss.
Now that he's shown his true colors his name is Turquoise. He actually could be a she (we won't know until the frog is mature) so we're sticking with gender neutral gemstone names. He / she will be getting a couple of friends soon because dumpies do better in groups. Depending on their colors they might be Jade, Peridot, Topaz, Larimar or even Amethyst.
Went looking for a red eyed tree frog, came home with this
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