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Larry, my GTF went missing 2 days ago. I figured he was hiding behing some leaves like normal so I thought nothing of it. After the second day of not seeing him I got worried. So I began carefully taking out oof the hanging vines and looking in all the hiding spots. Nothing anyware. Impossible to escape so I figured Larry had died so I began to look for a little corpse, i still found nothing, then I found a small brown spot that did not match the substrate, figuring it was his corpse I kinda moved it and he jumped about 2 feet up from the ground to the side of the cage scaring the crap out of me, I actually jumped back. After I stoped laughing I looked online for anything about GTF's burroing into the ground and found nothing. He was litterally about an inch under his soft substrate with only a little of his back showing. Has anyone else ever heard of this? What was he doing?

I think the only time I've heard of a tree frog burrowing would be to prepare for the upcoming winter. My guesses would be maybe searching for moisture...but if you have water in there I wouldn't see a need for the frog to do that. Or maybe burrowing to keep cool, but again if you're temperatures not wierd, there shouldn't be a reason for that as well. So that's a really good question you have there...I'm sure somebody else here will have a better opinion than mine. OR!!! Maybe it thinks it's a different kind of frog and is having an identity crisis...hmm...I wonder if that happens to frogs. But I just figured I'd give my opinion even though it may not be the right one...