I am new here, and this is my first post. I am looking for information, but not judgement. Sometimes these kinds of forums give people the permission to bash someone. I a not a Herp expert, but I wouldn't call myself inexperienced either. I kept a Whites Dumpy tree frog, Leopard frogs and fire belly toads for years. But in the past 10 years had gotten away from that. I started making "frog Towns" outside in the spring. Creating a two foot pond and planting flowers and little flower pot hideouts for them. It was exciting to see local frogs hop over at night and wade in the pool. So I got some tadpoles, they grew up and then the next year, they came back to "frog Town". It was awesome. I moved to a much dryer area, and I now have a 1 year old pug that eats everything, so this year I put Frog Town on a large table. And because where I live tadpoles aren't readily available, I bought some tadpoles on ebay. Ended up they were Toads and not frogs, so I got worried about their habitat being on a table. Our yard is not frog friendly, and if they got off the table, there was no way they would be able to get back on. So I brought all 18 (Started with 25) toadlets inside and placed in a large aquarium. They were a dark grey color. After a few weeks some got large while others stayed very small, so I put them in Two different aquariums. Mostley they eat fruit flies althugh some of the bigger ones were occasionally eating pin heads and mealworms. They have been slowly dying. The flooring is a mixture of coconut husk and moss, kept very wet. They have lots of hiding places and shate and a large water dish with rocks for easy climbing in and out. Their legs never seemed to work very well. I haven't dusted food with vitamins yet, how do you dust fruit flies? And also because my last frog (1 year ago) was a dumpy and doing very well, until he had powder suppliment on food. He got red leg and died. So I am hesitant. But the leg thing isn't the problem. They get lethatrgic, and stiff. Like their skin is thickening. The pet store was telling me to keep them at at least 80 degrees. So I was keeping it from 82 to 88 But so many have died. They almost look like they are drying up, although the ground is alwys wet and they are hardley ever in the water. But something keeps telling me that maybe this species doesn't like it this hot, so finally I am just going with my gut. I have turned off the lights, and done a lot of misitng and so far the 6 that are left have done okay for the last three days. They are eating well. The biggest once had a nice brown pattern on him, but now he is dark grey as well. I know that can be from the temp, but the others were very warm and still dark grey. I took him out and put him in a fresh cage by himself. He is about the size of a quarter, all the others are smaller. I know this post is huge, and I apologize, I am just heartbroken over this. I love these little guys and don't want them to suffer. Before someone says, I am not going to spend $100 to take them to the vet. If I had that kind of money I would, but I don't. Any suggestions?