bad kelpie
Well-Known Member
My sister has a big terrarium with green tree frogs. I found an ad on ebay for tadpoles. The guy said some were green tree frogs, and some were wood frogs, and you'd get a mix of the two. I figured the green tree frogs could live in my sister's terrarium, and I'd keep the wood frogs. I paid only $5 for 10, and got free shipping. I could have paid $18 for overnight shipping, but I didn't. In the mean time, I found out that wood frogs don't live in Florida (where they were coming from), so I didn't really know what I was getting. They got stuck at a shipping facility for a couple days, so by the time they got to me, only 2 were alive. One died shortly after, and I was left with this guy:
In just under a month, he got all his feet and climbed out of the water. It became quite clear that he was not a green tree frog. After much research I found out that he is a Cuban Tree frog.
The next day, I got my better camera out:
This is 4 days after he climbed out of the water, he's a frog! He looks so big in the pictures, but he's really tiny.
He was lighter the next day:
He's a coppery color today.
This is his home:
(you can see him behind the grassy plant).
:biggrin2:
After researching cuban tree frogs, I find out that they are very much hated in Florida. They came to Florida on shipping boats in the 1920's and have taken over. They are bigger than any of the native tree frogs and have been EATING them. They eat the native lizards too, and birds, and clog drains and cause electrical outages by getting in the electrical boxes. Pretty much, if you find one in Florida, you're supposed to kill it. So a few Floridian amphibian lovers on a frog forum have started collecting them and shipping them to anyone who wants them and has cold enough winters that they'll die if they escape. So, I have two adults coming to me next week! They seem like neat little frogs (unless you're a native frog in Florida).
In just under a month, he got all his feet and climbed out of the water. It became quite clear that he was not a green tree frog. After much research I found out that he is a Cuban Tree frog.
The next day, I got my better camera out:
This is 4 days after he climbed out of the water, he's a frog! He looks so big in the pictures, but he's really tiny.
He was lighter the next day:
He's a coppery color today.
This is his home:
(you can see him behind the grassy plant).
:biggrin2:
After researching cuban tree frogs, I find out that they are very much hated in Florida. They came to Florida on shipping boats in the 1920's and have taken over. They are bigger than any of the native tree frogs and have been EATING them. They eat the native lizards too, and birds, and clog drains and cause electrical outages by getting in the electrical boxes. Pretty much, if you find one in Florida, you're supposed to kill it. So a few Floridian amphibian lovers on a frog forum have started collecting them and shipping them to anyone who wants them and has cold enough winters that they'll die if they escape. So, I have two adults coming to me next week! They seem like neat little frogs (unless you're a native frog in Florida).
That's a big ol' habitat for such a little frog. How big do they end up getting?
