My grey tree frog pics/setup! (56K warning!)

[GartenSpinnen]

My grey tree frog pics/setup! (56K warning!...more pics!)

Heres the setup and what little pictures i could get of my grey tree frogs that i rescued recently. Theres 3 males and a female in there, but they are hidden so well and its hard to catch them out except at night.

First the enclosure. They are all housed in a 20 gallon high with coco substrate and sphagnum moss, with a tubberware container in the middle for them to soak in which is about 1" deep ...

I made my own version of a rotten log but placing coco fiber blocks that were only partially disolved by water and moss and placing them between cork bark. They like it a lot and mostly stay in this area....

Here is my female hiding out....

This is the only male at the moment i could catch out and about, and what i believe is the result of frogs living around an industrial plant and old waste site. This male is deformed in a lot of ways as seen in the pic. His head is deformed and he only has 1 eye. 2 of his legs are deformed and he has less toes on one and more toes on the other. Its kinda weird but i love him and hes happy sitting on his perch. He is smaller than the others and always sits out keeping an "eye" on things . Lets stop the pollution before our kids start looking like this!!!....

Well thats all i have for now. Will take more this weekend when im at home at night and can catch all 4 of them out and about. Picture quality isnt great because my camera sucks! Anyways, hope you all enjoyed them .
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[GartenSpinnen]

Oh yea forgot to mention it, but I am not done with this enclosure yet. So far i have 98.00 in it with everything, i plan on adding a lot of suction cup hanging plants on the back wall and a decent water dish in the middle. I was thinking of putting in a waterfall going into a tiny little pond and filteration, but i do not have the money for that sort of thing and i fear the noise would be added stress they dont need. Not to mention everyone already thinks im crazy for spending the money i am already on a local species. Seems most people do not appreciate them. I think they are the most beautiful tree frogs i have ever seen. They turn from green, to grey, to brown and all kinds of colors in between. I like them .
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[GartenSpinnen]

I got another female tonight while out smoking ciggarettes on break . She is very interesting because she lacks the pattern on her back like most of them have. Shes very interesting Here she is....

And in the new enclosure...

And a better pic of one of the others that was hiding earlier!

Isnt there color range amazing .
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[Malhavoc's]

God I love these little buggers. I just went to a herp show, picked up a 20g tall tank, And am slowely working on making it into a beautiful display piece, ATM its got a tupperware container for a water dish about 4" deep with some chill rocks to sit on, some spare branches sitting about making it lookkinda natural (same trees I found them near) and some Fish tank pebble stuff on the bottum (for drainage) going to be slowely adding moss, some more hides etc. of the next week. I still can not decide if I have a male or female, on is bright green like your new little girl, the other is grey and larger, so meh. who knows.

 

[GartenSpinnen]

God I love these little buggers. I just went to a herp show, picked up a 20g tall tank, And am slowely working on making it into a beautiful display piece, ATM its got a tupperware container for a water dish about 4" deep with some chill rocks to sit on, some spare branches sitting about making it lookkinda natural (same trees I found them near) and some Fish tank pebble stuff on the bottum (for drainage) going to be slowely adding moss, some more hides etc. of the next week. I still can not decide if I have a male or female, on is bright green like your new little girl, the other is grey and larger, so meh. who knows.

When i get a chance i will catch a male and female and take pics of the differences for comparison purposes. That should help . They are quite different. The 2nd pic on this page shows the very dark throat of the male. The female is completely white with speckles.
Cheers

 

[GartenSpinnen]

The newly caught green one is the same color as the others now, only a lot lighter. Its a very young specimen and the throat colors are confusing at the moment compared to the others. It lacks the very dark throat, but is showing a little color. But it cannot be 100% ruled either way at the moment.

 

[GartenSpinnen]

I just noticed something interesting... they make noise at around the same time every morning. At about 8:00 am they start singing, very loudly. Its like my own alarm clock