Hello. We inherited 3 fire bellies a few months ago that we created a home for in a 10 gallon tank in my daughter's room. They are named after SF Giants....Timmy, Pablo & Buster....based on the lovely orange and black bellies! The woman we adopted them from thru Freecycle, simply handed us a plastic box with the 3 lil' guys and told us to give them a tank with a little bit of water and feed them crickets from the feed store. They've done very well in the environment we created but amateurs that we are, we didn't do it right. One of the 3 whom we think was a girl, Timmy, managed to escape without our knowledge. We found her a few days later deceased. Lesson learned about watching for gaps after feeding and checking that everyone is present daily. Anyways, the other 2 were so sad they stopped singing. We decided to get them a new girl but since it is so hard to figure out the FBT's sex, we opted to take 2 based on what little we could figure out from the net. They are Willie Mays and Wilson. Thus came mistake number 2....we now have 4 froggies in a 10 gallon which I now read is not recommended. Well they are all ok with the crowd apparently and the singing has begun again. After purchasing the other two at a nearby pet store we noted the environment they came from is much different than the one we have. We need to incorporate more water rather than a plastic pool of water 2 inches deep! They have rocks to climb on and hiding places, but I'm sure they would be happier in a more red bellied toady-like environment. I have looked at images and videos on the net and see that we should have at least 1/4th of the tank with water and rocks giving them some dry land areas. I know they would not live in an environment like our gold fish, but wondered if anyone can give us more advice on this. i.e.. Where to get and what kind of rocks and plants? Where do you find rocks that I see in some of those images? What kind of plants? The kind that live in water only or dry land only? I assume the place we bought them would have some of this stuff but they already mis-sold us on a warming bulb that makes the tank much too hot. After 15 minutes they all ran for cover! I do not trust the store's advice! Also, what kind of filter should I consider for the water? In our fish tank we also placed nylon stockings filled with coral to keep the water condition healthy for the fish. Does that work for these guys? Lastly, where is the best place on the net to find this stuff? The store we got the new guys from is far and I'm really mad that they won't take back the bulb based on their bad advice!

Sorry for the long post and thanks for your help!!
Jacquie