You brought up some very good points: I've had the same experience with pet stores: one refused to give hamsters a wheel and a young employee gave me at least 5 ridiculous excuses. Same store sells dead worms repeatedly, they also housed alot of balas with alot of red tails. I watched for 30 seconds, long enough to see balas were bullying red tails. Tank was like 13" x 13". I asked the store if they could separate them, got a blank stare with a facial expression that said "so what is the problem?" Same store has gigantic feeder goldfish tank (often half empty) and those fish could easily be divided into small tanks. Gee, house balas in that huge tank, its big enough to add red tails if the store could bother themselves to add some plants. Another store that sold the FB's had them in with red claw crabs. Ok, so frogs stayed away from crabs (bet they weren't happy sharing with them) but frogs did not have dry land! They had wet pebbles, not enough added plants or rocks or caves or eco earth substrate, etc. That's cheap to house them with crabs when they'd be happier just being with each other. Why don't stores care? They gave me poor vague advice with their pets. Some employees could answer my questions but most had no answer.

Anyone who has had 6th grade science should know that frogs/toads like land, water, plants, rocks, warmth, bugs, branches, substrate, etc. This isn't that hard to care for a frog's needs. Every time I clean my frog tank I rearrange some things to make it better. I love doing it! Like you said, research first then after getting pet home try different ideas to determine what pet likes. And I'm glad you aren't fond of feeding roaches. Gee, its like me swallowing a whole ear of corn or a whole egg plant....maybe a whole chicken. I can't imagine a roach even making it past digestion in a frog. What happens if frog has pyloric stenosis? Frogs often sit for periods at a time, when in captivity this could be why they're not hopping more. They know their activity is limited. With any prolonged sitting or inactivity this may contribute to slower peristalsis, so I'm thinking this impaction business is painful, frog suffers, and could easily die from bowel obstruction or perforation. I'm thinking of what's best for the frog. Sorry to get carried away but I have bad thoughts about frogs when given a roach. I would not give mine roaches, it does not seem right. I am glad you wrote and you do pay attention to your pet(s) like me. I also have 4 hermits, fish tank, dog, cat, friendly possums and squirrels, too. Yep, I'm busy.....also have a husband who complains about everything. He's like having a pet, too, except he talks. Write anytime, I like sharing and I like your ideas.