Keeping a red-eyed tree frog
(Instruction style: Note it is NOT suggested you do this, the description, while real, is for expert keepers only)
Description: Red-eyed tree frogs have bright red eyes, bright green bodies with blue and yellow stripped sides. They also have orange toes.
How to keep them: This species tends to do better when you have several together as they are communal. They do best in tall tanks, with branches leading out of a pond of water. They can swim, but they mostly don't – because they are tree frogs, not pond frogs.
The temperature should be about 25° during the day and about 21° at night. The humidity should be kept around 80-100%.
What to feed them: This can be tricky. They will eat any small insect such as flies, but you have to catch the flies first.
Lifestyle: Keep in mind that the tree-frogs are nocturnal. They simply sit about during the day, often not moving. So don't poke them just to make them move. Now you know why their eyes are red, the red helps them to see (during the day it also helps startle predators, giving the frog a chance to escape being eaten). They do their moving and feeding at night. So if you were expecting movement, you will be disappointed.
Best to know: Red-eyed tree frogs come from tropical rainforests of Costa Rica in Central America. They are delicate, and whilst pretty to look at, they should not be kept as pets.
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