Green Tree Frogs - Need Advice On Keeping Them

Hi, I have 4 fully grown green tree frogs now, and am preparing to set up a terrarium in a 3 foot long, 2 foot wide, 2 foot tall tank. It has vents along the sides and back, as well as on the lid, and a hole in the lid to place a UV bulb. They will be spending 2 days in an old reptile transport box, which has water, many crickets, a driftwood log, and a big rock, as well as an ornament in the water for hiding and climbing. I do not know the water parameters for keeping these frogs, and do not need a heating/cooling device, as they are local frogs. On Friday, I will be getting soil, plants, a larger tub for water, driftwood, and some fake plants. I got the frogs this morning. The soil will be 4 inches or more deep, and I have a Chinese Water Bamboo I will be planting in the water.As far as food, I can get crickets, mealworms, small fish, and moths right off the bat.
My neighbor was throwing out a dead plant, tipped the pot in the bin, and lo and behold, 2 beautiful big green frogs. She called me over to come get them out of the bin, and she found 2 more in another pot. I do have a reptile license and her permission to take and keep the frogs. Not entirely sure on gender, but I have named them Peppermint, Speckle, Buttstuff, and Dripper. We are currently in a very bad drought and heatwave, even the creeks have dried up, grown plants, then had the plants die. The trees are dying, everything is dying. I've never seen it this bad, I had to take them, there's a pond nearby... Or rather, there was.

I need to know the correct water parameters, ideal foods, and how long they can stay in the shade without a UV Bulb- it's gonna take me a while to get a new cord to run a bulb. I lost the old one that went with the tank. They will be outside, too.
Final note: The two in the pictures are Peppermint and Speckle. Peppermint is the one who wedged themself beside a rock, and Speckle is the one who is the most laidback. Crickets keep jumping on their head.

I have better pictures of them. I have 3 females, one male- Buttstuff is the male, he has spots on his butt. The rest are: Speckle, who has a speckled back, Peppermint, who is much lighter in colour than the others, and Dripper, who is the same dark green as the other 3 but with no spots.
The ones in the first pic are Speckle with Dripper who had been sitting on her head, and in the second it's Peppermint (in the water) and Buttstuff (on the ornament).

 

I don't own any but they are beautiful frogs. This is really nice of you to save them from the extreme dry weather. I found a care sheet, here is the link, hope this can answer a few of your questions

 

I have no suggestions but to comment on how beautiful they are. I hope for the best.

 

This pic was taken shortly before they went into their new terrarium. It's got two holes open at the top, covered by a heavy wooden painting so they can't get out. One hole will be filled with a UV bulb, the other is for putting food through. It's a childsafe reptile tank, but the pet shop I got it from stuck in a dry dock and sold it with a turtle that was too big for it when I got him. I don't have the turtle anymore, but still, the frogs have hiding places so good you can't see them during the day. =D
The second pic is their new terrarium. I can't reach under the dry dock properly but I intend on getting a bigger water container anyway to go under there, and a fake climbing plant to put over the dry dock. It's got 4 live plants, 2 ornaments, 1 water dish, and 1 rock so far. I am currently using Betta Safe to treat the water.

 

Your frogs are absolutely beautiful! I love their big eyes and the way they look like they're smiling at us, look ike a family portrait I like your new set-up, please post some more pictures when adding climbing plants for them. How big are they and what are you feeding them ?

 

beautiful frogs

 

They're fully grown, the size of my full hand each, and I'm currently feeding them crickets, mealworms and cockroachs. Sorry for the late reply, my mum was in hospital but she's out now. I have to hide the cockroaches from her, there's only one pet shop selling them as 'woodies'. The Mealworms burrowed so they've been digging for them at night, it's making a mess of their water and they keep knocking over the skull. The big fake tree stump is their favourite hiding spot, they all hide under and behind it. Still no idea on water parameters, all I can find is 'dechlorinate it and make sure it's warm'. I'm just using Betta Safe at the moment. I really need to know what kind of water conditions they need, I'm not even sure how much. That's a 3L Ice Cream tub in there, washed, lined with rocks and filled up for their water. I have no idea what else I can use, I need to be able to take it out to change it.

 

That pic of the four of them #5 is too cute, they almost look like the china frogs you can buy

 

I found this article for you

White's Treefrog Care Sheet

and you could do some reasearch on this product, it's supposed to be safe for amphibians

 

Thanks. I've had a minor problem today, turns out Singapore Ants like the terrarium and hunting their crickets. Bah.

I can't use that Reptile Water Conditioner, I'm Australian. They don't ship here. The care sheet was useful for breeding tips, though, thanks!

 

Thanks. I've had a minor problem today, turns out Singapore Ants like the terrarium and hunting their crickets. Bah.

you'll have to get an anteater!

 

Dear god it's getting much much worse. It's the ramhorn snail infestation all over, but with goddamn ants. I've joined a frog forum so I probably won't respond to or use this thread again.

 

Sorry you're having problems with your terrarium. You will probably get more specialized help on a frog(only) froum, most of us have adf but please keep this thread to share pictures and keep us posted about you frogs. I'm sure I'm not the only one who enjoy looking at your pictures!

 

Well, if you want updates, turns out the ants stressed out Peppermint so now she's rubbed her nose raw trying to get away from them, I had to take them out of the terrarium and put them into two separate tanks like the green one, except the green one was being used to breed crickets and the blue one only had a bowl of water. The green one won't have much water, I'm gonna be swapping them each night until the infestation is cleared. She spent all last night jumping against the roof of the container, making her nose even worse... On the plus side, it rained today for the first time in over 2 months here. For a little bit. It stopped, though... If it rains 4 days straight, good soaking rain, I'll be letting them out. I could hear a wild male in my backyard, too. The ants infested the whole orchid house and several other pot plants, they've been in the kitchen sink, on the kitchen bench, and even around the toilet... Thank god they're leaving my room alone this time. Usually they go straight for my fish tank and cat food, but I put down ant poison and salt a few times and each time they'd stop for a few months. But these ones ignored the **** salt in the terrarium... ;-;

 

Peppermints nose got far worse last nigh. I'll be handing her over to the vet today, who'll forward her to a wildlife place that can help her. I now have 3 frogs. It's pretty bad.

 

First of all, I salute you for all the effort you are putting in saving these frogs, I hope you will get rain soon. Hope Peppermint will be ok, if you have spare fake plants, try to put some in their containers, maybe it would calm them down I know you can used Neosporin for wound on adf and acf, not sure for tree frogs or if it's available in your country. I've also read about Bactine but will have to do more research. I know about the alarming situation in Australia and again I'll hope you'll get some rain very soon

Sorry to hear about Pepperminnt, I was typing while you were posting