Temperatures in the mid/high 80s F can quickly be fatal, especially when coupled with a lack of water or humidity. At Josh's Frogs, we house our Red-Eyeds at 74-76F. Temperature: They do best when kept in the mid-high 70s. Want to make caring for your Red-Eyed Tree Frogs easy? Check out the Josh's Frogs Tree Frog Kits! Scrub the dish and disinfect with a 5% bleach solution or ReptiSan. Red-Eyed Tree Frogs need constant access to fresh, clean water – a large water bowl is a must! Use an easy to clean dish, such as an Exo Terra Water Dish, as the frog will be using the dish as a latrine and you will need to clean daily. Paper towel will need to be changed 2-3 times a week. If using sphagnum moss, make sure to press down the moss so it is flat – this will greatly reduce the risk of impaction. Opinions on substrates vary – we’ve had luck with damp paper towel, or sphagnum moss. Choose a large enclosure – an 18x18x24 Exo Terra Glass Terrarium is a good size for 2-4 juveniles or adults. Recommended Terrarium Size: Red-Eyed Tree Frogs are easy to house. The Red-Eyed tree frog is also known as the Red-Eyed leaf frog. This refers to their sparkling eyes, beautiful appearance, and arboreal habits. The species is now known to be quite widely distributed in the Western Ghats, ranging from the Camel's Hump Hill Range in the north, all the way to the northernmost portions of the Agasthyamalai Hill Range in the south.Name: The Red-Eyed tree frog has a very obvious common name – it is a tree frog with bright Red-Eyes! Its scientific name is Agalychnis callidryas, which literally translates into (aga) plenty of (lychnos) shining (kallos) beautiful (dryas) tree nymph. Some of these fishes co-occur with purple frog tadpoles in the hill streams.Įarlier thought to be restricted to the south of the Palghat Gap in the Western Ghats, additional records have extended its known range further north of the gap. Suckers are also present in rheophilic fishes of genera such as Glyptothorax, Travancoria, Homaloptera and Bhavania, adaptations that are the result of convergent evolution. Narayan Rao as having oral suckers that allowed them to live in torrential streams. Tadpoles of the species had been described in 1917 by Nelson Annandale and C. The specimen with which the species was originally described was seven centimeters long from the tip of the snout to the vent. Males are about a third of the length of females. Adults are typically dark purplish-grey in color. Compared to other frogs, purple frogs have a small head and an unusual, pointed snout. Its arms and legs splay out in the standard anuran body form. The body of the purple frog appears robust and bloated and is relatively rounded compared to other more dorsoventrally-flattened frogs. However, it was already well known to the local people and several earlier documented specimens and publications had been ignored by the authors in the 2003 paper that describes the genus and species. Biju from the Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute in Palode, India and Franky Bossuyt from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels), in 2003. The species was described from specimens collected in the Idukki district of Kerala by S.D.
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