Thank you for the info on the water! We have the little "pools" very shallow right now and I actually did not even know they could drown.. water level is about 1/2 inch or less and the pool is very small.. about 2 inches diameter. mostly just a place they can get into water if needed. I keep my crickets going fairly constant for our other animals (we feed our quail, garter snakes (mine do eat them) and Mantids crickets and they get so expensive when you go through 50+ a week, not counting what the frogs eat yet..). Its been a few months since I had fruit fly cultures as I only had them for the time my mantids were newly hatched and a few weeks after. Then moved them onto the crickets. I purchased 4 cultures and have started 2 out of those today. I will start two every week for a while see how that goes, and if its too many Ill cut back a bit. When I was doing the cultures for my mantids I only started one every week & sometimes even skipped a week when I had so many. Next week we will be taking the huge aquarium we have (150 gallon..) and start turning it into a terrarium. My husband wants to divide it in half with a pane of glass, so we can have them side by side in "one" house. Then we will use the ones we have now for if /when we start to need a home for babies or mating pairs that might fight. I had read that the males can get territorial when mating and could hurt the other inhabitants. Would moving them if they are ready to mate disrupt them too much? or should I leave them, and move the others. And when they lay their eggs, do I need to do anything special for them? We plan on just letting the frogs take care of them on their own, with maybe a little help here and there if needed. I am not wanting to raise a bunch of babies to sell, just for the experience of it and we decided we would enjoy it more if we could see the frogs take care of their eggs and babies and then if we get too many (I am sure that we will have fewer doing it this way.. but there you go) then we will sell or trade them out at that point. Just was not sure if I should feed them anything special or added things for when they lay eggs, or if I should do anything at all.
Anyway.. thank you so much for any help and advise. I am still so giddy about these guys.. We were gone all day today for family functions and I couldn't wait to get home to watch them.. Ran in and gave them some pinheads just so I could watch them gobble them up..