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I just inherited a frog from a friend who is moving to texas. The story of the frog is that it was found by a friend who works at Sam's Club in a bag of celery that was shipped from california here to minnesota. It is about an inch and a quarter long from head to butt. It is light brownish, almost orangish at times in color. It is in the aquarium with a turtle but it does not seem to like the water at all. It spends most of its time suction-cupped to the sides of the aquarium. It has four toes on the front legs and five on the hind-legs. If you have an idea what kind of frog his is that would help a bunch! Also, if you have an idea how to care for it, that would also be helpful. Thanks!

can you post a picture of the frog? that would help tons.

the first thing you need to do is get that frog out of the cage with the turtle. and out of the water. if it is suctioncupping to the sides of the wall,it is not a water frog at all,and cannot swim well and WILL DROWN! it is a tree frog. im not sure exactly what kind but theres some basic setup requirements you can give it. put the frog in atleast a 10 gallon tank for now any tank bigger is certianly better. just put paper towels on the floor of the tank,put some nice clean sticks and branches in there with it,and some fake plants if you have any. now,find a nice shallow water dish. make sure it is no deeper then an inch. something like the lid to a tupperwear container,or any kind of container will do. now when you get one fill it with dechlorinated water(if you have a water turtle, you should have the tap water conditioner stuff).put the frog in there and hope hes not too traumatized from the turtle. get a basic heatlamp and keep the temperatures during the day at 85 and nighttime temperatures at 70-75. hopefully this will do. let us know.

thanks for reply. First off, unfortunately my digi cam is temporarily out of order, so a pic is not quite possible for the time being. My basic assumption was that it should not be with the turtle in the water and even before reading this i have since moved it out of there (By the way, even in with the turtle, there were dry landing spots for it to sit on if it so pleased, but it just chose to spend its time stuck to the wall, so i wasn't really worried about it drowning). Everything you suggested is possible and/or already set-up for the frog. My only questions now have to do with humidity and food. Knowing that it is an amphibian, i'm sure it does require some humidity so as not to dry up. Would the tupperware type bowl thingie be enough for it or should i also worry about the ambient air humidity? And if so, what would you suggest it be? And now about the food: when i got it from my friend, he said he has not seen the frog eat at all, but it has stayed alive for a couple weeks now, so we assume it had to be eating something, but just don't know what? What would tree frogs eat? Thank you for all the help, and if you or anyone else have anymore info for me, that would be awesome!! Thanks

I would get some small crickets from a pet shop and put a few in with the frog. Maybe leave one or two in overnight if the frog does not eat in front of you. As long as the crickets are not longer than the frog's mouth is wide, they should be small enough. Good luck!
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It's hard to be specific on housing (such as humidity) for the frog before we can guess the species. Do you know where the celery came from, that could help. There are really a lot of treefrogs it could be, but try to provide around 50% humidity for the time being, with a shallow, de-chlorinated water source. The frog *can* drown, because most treefrogs aren't good swimmers but still need to get water. It's just a precaution, just as you'd keep young kids out of a pool unattended even if they could swim some.

Anyway, if you can look at frog pictures online (to get an ID) or get into the detail of describing the frog it would help quite a bit. Good luck
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