I have a 55 gallon tank that I set up for my 7 fire bellies when I first got them last spring. I've been gradually adding things as I figured out what they liked & they seemed to be very happy little frogs. But I decided to redo my tank because someone gave me a great piece of old cypress & I want to make a waterfall with it & I also want put in a plexiglass divider between the water & land. (I had fiberglass mesh & the soil kept going into the water & clogging the filter & pump.) Anyway, I set up a 29 gallon long for them to live in while I do the renovations. I put some familiar things in--2 hides that they really like & I put two big pictures outside the glass that I had by the 55G, as several of them liked to sit on top of the hide & look at the pics.
I also thought that as long as I moving them, I'd try the ice cream bucket approach to feeding that I read about on here, because 2 of my frogs are hogs & have gotten sort of fat. Well, they all freaked out! When I put them in the bucket with a lot of crickets, they just tried climbing the sides to get out, stepping on the crickets & squishing them. So, I just put them in the 29G that I had set up for them. They've been there a day & they are all still clustered together trying to climb out. A couple of them are acting frantic. I feel terrible--they seemed to be having so much fun in the old one, and now they seem so scared.
So should I make my new set up as similar to the old as I can, with the exception of the cypress waterfall & the plexiglass divider? I wanted to do some other things but now I'm not so sure.