Good frogs for a beginner

[xihha]

my little sister got her new tank today so i can have mine back now, only taken 2 years lol. anyway its 30g, so my daughter can have that for her toads rather than the 10g we were going to use as im guessing the more space they have the happier they will be?

I just need to get a filter as that doesnt appear to have come back with it and i need to clean it because shes been keeping the worlds stinkiest turtle in it and work out where i can put it and i still have a month til her 3rd birthday

and best of all my mother in law hates the idea and says she'll stop visiting me if i get fire bellies as apparently frogs and toads are evil or some such rubbish

[Heatheranne]

I use the cricket keeper that scuba mentions above and it works great. I don't mind crickets but you barely have to even handle them this way. The crickets climb up the tubes. Just sprinkle them with calcium/vita D and pat the end of the tube over tank. If there's too many in the tube give it a little hit while in the cricket keeper first. I feed my crickets these...

[Sublime]

I use the cricket keeper that scuba mentions above and it works great. I don't mind crickets but you barely have to even handle them this way. The crickets climb up the tubes. Just sprinkle them with calcium/vita D and pat the end of the tube over tank. If there's too many in the tube give it a little hit while in the cricket keeper first. I feed my crickets these...

Do you notice a lot of dead crickets when feeding them that much calcium?

[Heatheranne]

Nope. But they grow fast. Sometimes too fast.

[Heatheranne]

Do you have trouble with your crickets?

[Sublime]

Do you have trouble with your crickets?

No I don't, I just read on a few forums that people were having trouble keeping their crickets alive and the solutions were not to much calcium in their diet. Obviously you don't have a problem with that, and it benefits your frog so you're all good. I feed mine high protein homemade chow I grind up (kitten food, dog food, oats) with those water gel crystals you have, but I just made my own.

[Heatheranne]

It's probably so much cheaper that way. I should try it. How much do you make at a time?

[Sublime]

For the homemade chow, I make 2 large ziplock baggys full of it with my coffee grinder. Last months... The water gel crystals found in any plant nursery, a couple teaspoons of the dried crystals with water will make a gallon of that to save in a big jug, last you months as well as long as it's sealed. Then you still have the rest of the bag of dried crystals to make more once you run out, which you wont for a very long time. Much cheaper, you can still buy the flukers food if you want to, but to save money in the long run and grind up your own chow that you know what's in it. Well worth it.

[Heatheranne]

Neat!