So, my toad is doing great, I've been feeding him wild caught grasshoppers and worms (dusted with calcium) all summer, but it's now early fall, and winter is approaching fast. My closest pet store is 100 or so kms away (60 miles), so it will be once a week or every other week that I will be able to get into the store to buy crickets.

1. Can anyone give me tips (or links to arcticles, etc) on how to keeps worms alive? I have them in a plant pot filled with soil, and a small piece of rotting banana burried in the pot right now, I pour roughly 1 tablespoon of water in the pot every 3 or so days to keep the soil moist. They are being kept in my cool basement.

2. Crickets...? I have a 2.5 gallon kritter keeper, every week (or every other week) I will be buying 24 crickets, what should I use for substrate? Food? Is an orange slice good enough for water? How long will they last?

3. Potato bugs, wood lice, roly polies, etc. Whataver you call them, I think you know the insect I am talking about, what about these, does anyone keep these? I have 6 of them in an 2.5 gallon Kritter keeper (Sand substrate), I have been feeding them potatoes, apples and cut up worm, they are growing, but very slooooooowly, and I keep adding more that I find (mostly very small ones about 1/8" long). I just would like to know about keeping these insects because my toads absoultly love them!

Thanks, I might be able to find this info on the web, but I'd rather hear it form the experts.

~Royce