Leopard Frog Help

[Kurt]

Can he navigate around a piece of drift wood? Not sure if he'll eat the coconut peat or the spanish moss stuff I put in there on advice of my local pet store -which didn't seem real knowledgeable so I'm sort of a wreck on whether I've gotten his or her new habitat right. ... p.s. as for my name "Tiger Cub" ... just in case you're wondering ... not a sex kitten, unfortunately, just a middle aged Tiger Cub Scout Den Mom ... LOL

He/she should be able to navigate around driftwood. The substrate should be fine, no worries. The substrate you want avoid is gravel. If accidently ingested, it can cause bowel impaction.

What is middle-aged and what is a tiger-cub scout? Just wondering if I am middle-aged.

[jody]

please be careful using the petstore dried moss. it has cause lethal impaction in my frogs when ingested. the crickets hang out on it and bits are eaten accidentaly when the frog strikes. the moss contains pine needles and other small bits of leaf and sticks that cannot be digested.

[Tiger Cub]

Thanks Kurt. I think we're 65 babies ? So while I hate to break it to you I think we're doing pretty good if this is the middle! Tiger Cubs are the first level of boy scouts, 6-7 year olds. Its an experience

For the froggie, he's does seem ok on the land. Thanks for all the help. He doesn't seem to have killed or eaten his crickets though. I keep finding them dead in the water. Is there a recommendation on the types of crickets I should be getting him ??? I just asked the pet store for small. I live in the middle of nowhere so the best I can do is probably internet.

[Kurt]

Thanks Kurt. I think we're 65 babies ? Is there a recommendation on the types of crickets I should be getting him ??? I just asked the pet store for small. I live in the middle of nowhere so the best I can do is probably internet.

There is only one type of cricket available, Acheta domestica. As far as getting them off of the Internet, I think the minimum is 500, 250 if you're lucky. To keep them from drowning, I make "cricket ladders" out of needle point mesh you can get at arts and crafts stores. I cut it into strips, then cut it to length for the bowl being used. See the picture below. (I should've patented this idea, but it's two late. This picture ended up in a book.) More pics in my profile.

I am actually a '64 baby, so that would make me older than you. I want to be 21 again.

[John]

There is only one type of cricket available, Acheta domestica.

Actually I know in North Western Europe, at least, where I'm from, you can purchase black field crickets too (very similar to what I see wild here in the southern US where I live now).

[Kurt]

I used to see blackcrickets all the time around here, but in the past few years not so much. It has me very concerned.