Blue treefrog?

[bugmankeith]

What species of treefrog is this?

 

[Gigas]

Its a red eyed tree frog Agalychnis callidryas but the picture is NOT an acurate colour description the colouring has been blued up and darkened, they're more lime green and have more orangey coloured feet

 

[bugmankeith]

The color is 100% real, I have seen one at a reptile museum. You mentioned it was a red eyed treefrog, could it be a color morph then? I have seen a yellow version, and one that was purplish, along with the normal green color.

 

[bugmankeith]

I found the proof I was looking for, here are 2 color morphs, and the website I found them on.

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/9884/phyllophoto2.html

 

[Gigas]

Wow thats news to me! Does every amphibian /Reptile now come as a colour morph!

 

[bugmankeith]

Cool huh, this is the only site I found on them! I told you I saw one.

 

[softturtle]

Wow thats news to me! Does every amphibian /Reptile now come as a colour morph!

Both of these color phases occur naturally in different areas. The blue one is a lot rarer in the trade than the green phase though. Cool lookin frog though.

 

[Beardo]

Wow thats news to me! Does every amphibian /Reptile now come as a colour morph!

Nope. Been like that for thousands (probably more) of years. Color morphs are by no means a human invention.

 

[Stylopidae]

Nope. Been like that for thousands (probably more) of years. Color morphs are by no means a human invention.

We do breed some of them out, though

 

[Beardo]

Yes, there are some color morphs that were invented through human intervention, but my point was that we were not the first to do so.

 

[sick4x4]

who cares

who really cares if a morph or not they look sick i want one now lol !!!!!!!!!thanks for the info.....and the pic!!!!:clap:

 

[Ganoderma]

it is from my understanding that yellow frogs are missing blue, and blue frogs are missing yellow. normal green frogs are a combo of blue/yellow. i am sure google has this, it was many years i ago i read it.

definatly a red eye tree frog. if yo uwant some cool colour morphs of frogs check out dendrobates auratus. some cool stuff there!

everything coems from something so i dont think teh word invention is quite appropriate when it comes to tehse colour morphs. discovery perhaps. we seem to give a lot of credit to peopel doing pet morphs...but really its no harder than breeding a normal one except you paid more for the initial specimen

 

[spider]

Nope. Been like that for thousands (probably more) of years. Color morphs are by no means a human invention.

I can get some Alligator Gar eggs and fill them with any color dye if you want. Want blue gar fish? (The color fades back to natural coloring after a short period)

 

[bugmankeith]

If the color fades, you cant consider them a color morph. You can only call them neon fish.

 

[Ganoderma]

unless genetic...Clicky

 

[bugmankeith]

Ganoderma I saw a special on those neon fish, another genetic animal we created I guess.

 

[Frogsarethapoop]

The correct term is axanthic. This is when the yellow pigment is missing, usually due to a genetic "defect". Normally the two pigments blue and yellow form the colour green, which is the normal colour of most frog species. When the yellow pigment is absent, all that is left is blue pigment which is why they appear blue. Generally these frogs, like naturally occuring albinos, are snatched up by predators in the wild. I have seen "blue" red eyed treefrogs, bullfrogs, northern leopard frogs, and a green tree frog, and have heard of others. And from page 14 of December Reptiles magazine, a new blue morph of Hyla gratiosa has shown up from the wild in northern Florida which is now being groomed for herpetoculture.

 

[bugmankeith]

That's cool! I have seen a blue White's Treefrog, and Green Treefrog before, but when I posted this, it was the first time I had ever seen a blue Red Eyed Treefrog, so I didn't know it was real, until I researched and found out yes,it was infact real!

I think the color looks great on the Red Eyed Treefrog.