Start with the frog itself
Write down the tree frog's species, its sex if you know it, roughly how old it is, and how long it has been in the family. Note where it came from — breeder, shop, or rescue — because a frog that has already changed homes once may take longer to settle a second time. Add a recent photograph showing its markings clearly. Tree frogs of the same species can look almost identical, and a good photo helps the new keeper confirm they are watching the right animal if it ever seems unwell or gets out of its enclosure.
Write the daily routine out in full
The note should let the new keeper run an ordinary day without guessing. Cover what the frog eats: the insect types it takes, roughly how many, and on which days, plus how feeders are dusted with supplement powder before they go in. Record the misting routine that holds its humidity — how often, how heavily, and what the humidity should sit at through the day and overnight. List the temperature range at the warm and cool sides of the enclosure, when the lights switch on and off, and when the UV bulb was last replaced, because UV output fades long before a bulb visibly fails.
Include its health history and what normal looks like
Set down every shed problem, appetite dip, or vet visit you can remember, with roughly when it happened and what put it right. Then describe this frog's normal: where it sleeps, how active it becomes after lights-out, how eagerly it strikes at food, and whether it soaks often. Tree frogs hide illness well, so the new keeper needs that baseline written down to spot a change early. Name the vet who has seen the frog before, and flag handling honestly — most tree frogs should be handled rarely and briefly, with damp hands, and some individuals panic at it.
Flag what will unsettle it during the move
Say plainly what bothers this particular frog: a noisy new room, a different water dish, being watched while it feeds, a change in the smell of its water. Suggest the new keeper keeps the enclosure layout exactly as it was for the first stretch and feeds in the same spot at the same hour, so the frog's map of its small world stays familiar even though the house around it has changed. A quiet settling-in period with minimal disturbance gives it the best start.
Walk the enclosure together before the frog moves, if you can. Point out how the mister is set, where the supplement powder lives, which foods are in the freezer, and any quirk of the setup — a door that sticks, a thermostat that reads slightly high. Note those quirks in the handover too. A new keeper following written notes still benefits from having seen the routine done once, and the frog benefits from hands that already know its home.
When a tree frog passes to a new keeper in the family, KinsLe's Transferrable Profiles move its identity, feeding routine and health notes over with it, so the care it depends on continues without a gap.