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I had a Green Treefrog before, Pippin, but he died. I was wondering if anyone knew what was wrong with him? A little while after he was brought home, he started opening his mouth and leaving it open for a few seconds while his breathing became very fast. He done that more and more until he just died, and then shortly after that my Gray Treefrog that he was rooming with began doing the same thing and she also died. I have a picture of Pippin with his mouth open:

http://meikyuu.lilkittygurl.com/PippinMouthOpen.jpg

Copy that into your browser and the picture should come up. (I'm not sure whether this message board supports HTML or BBCode, so I'm just taking the easy way out. =P)

Thanks if you can help, thanks anyway if you can't. =)

house any different species together, even green trees and grays.

As far as mouth being open, its hard to say because each time they shed, it looks as if they are gaging with mouth open while pushing old skin into mouth.

You would have to tell us what your set up was, temperatures, if their water was cleaned regularly. So many things depend on the care given.

I have found thank God, with my 6 guys, that they are quite hardy, as long as their requirements are met. I have had them for about 3 years.

The fact they both died, could have been a bacterial infection, all sorts of things. Like I say run your set up past us, and again sorry you lost your froggies. :0(

Heres a few of my little green buddies ! blurry, I moved

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Yeah, I thought of that after they had died. I'm somewhat new to the care of frogs and toads, but I'm obviously doing something right with my common toad and dwarf african bullfrog, because I've had them for three and two years. =)

I've seen my little guys shed before, but I've never seen them open their mouths when they weren't pushing the skin into there, which is what Pippin was doing.

My set up was a small plastic container that I bought at the pet store, which isn't so small to a treefrog of their size, with dirt that I bought there also and a dish of water with some fake leaves in there for them to hang on to. The temperature was room temperature, because I didn't think they needed anything particular, especially since I found Arwen (Gray Treefrog) during the winter when it was snowing. I changed their water fairly often, about every other day or when it looked like it needed to be changed.

I took a picture of the container that my Tomato Frog is in now, which is almost exactly the same as the one I had my treefrogs in, except colours are different:

http://meikyuu.lilkittygurl.com/HotaruHouse.jpg

Thanks for the help. =) And you have some mighty adorable little friends there! =D

Well the set up wasnt exactly too small, but there aboreal, it probably should have been something taller, at least a 10 gallon tank or something. I betcha anything 10 gallon tanks are cheaper too, there like 10 dollars. I have a bunch of them laying around from past years. Ones being used for pothos and other plant raising, another one got cracked, and is now being used for crickets, and a 3rd one is sitting around in the garage waiting to be used. I think I use to have more, but I'm not sure what happend to them lol. But anyways, they probably died of a diesese the frog had from the start. You "should" always quartine a new specimen for at least 30 days. And then if all is good, you can add him to a establish tank. Normally, a quarintine tank is nothing but a 10 gallon aquarium with damp paper towels, a water dish, and maybe a potted plant. And of course a background of paper, or something, just to reduce stress on the poor fella. Chances are though, the Gray Tree Frog recieved the parasite, or desiese from the newly added GTF, and died. So thats a classic example of why a specimen should always be quartined first.
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You know, that makes a lot of sense. I never thought of that before... Thanks! I'll definitely do that the next time I get a new frog.

I definitely miss my Green Treefrog, though. He was the sweetest little treefrog I've ever seen... It'd be nice to be able to do certain things over, huh? =/