lol. How in the world do you have time for them all?!
So...did you get most of those pets after working at a pet store? Because that was my problem, and the problem of quite a few people I work with.
I'm Emily. I've always been into frogs. For my 19th birthday my mom got me a complete set of stuff for my car with frogs on it: seat covers, steering wheel cover, lisence plate holder...even a trash can. My friends buy me socks with frogs on them for -every- holiday. I'll buy anything with a frog on it. I really like frogs, but until about a month ago I'd never owned one.
My boyfriend knew from the start I'm a little crazy. Obsessed, maybe. When I met him I told him I had a few geckos. By a few I meant 30. Geckos. And a few snakes. And some spiders. and other bugs. And the 'normal' furry pets. And my collection wasn't finished growing. I'd always wanted a box turtle and a gargoyle gecko. And a kingsnake. And I'd still never had a frog.
Last Chrismas he gave me an Exoterra cage. Then he gave me a baby gargoyle gecko for my birthday. Then, right before Christmas I found the most adorable animals ever..little grey treefrogs! Sure, we'd had green and white's treefrogs in stock when I worked at Petco, but I didn't know grey frogs existed. Unfortunately I had to spend the rest of the driving so I couldn't get them. I looked at every pet store in my area a few days later and nobody had them. I offered bribes and finders fees, but nobody would order them.
A few weeks ago we were driving by the pet store that had had them, so we stopped in. They had some! They were on sale!! I spent about fifteen minutes staring at them and weirding other customers before I picked two out. We named them Chris and Bernard after characters on a show we had been watching. They're perfect little froggies. They watch everything that happens at night, call every night, and they're really outgoing when it comes to eating. One of them has a favorite branch he sits on in the front of the cage to wait for crickets. People visiting doesn't bother them at all- they'll even eat in front of a crowd.
I "didn't want them to be lonely," so I got a pair of firebelly toads to "keep them company" in the tank next to them about a week ago. Then I got a pacman frog from a girl who was moving and couldn't take any of her pets with her. Now I'm trying to figure out what to do with a 29 gallon terrarium that's been sitting empty in our living room for the last month. Dart frogs are pretty cute....
Obsessed? Maybe.
lol. How in the world do you have time for them all?!
So...did you get most of those pets after working at a pet store? Because that was my problem, and the problem of quite a few people I work with.
Welcome to the forum. The best piece of advice regarding new frog syndrome is to "love the one you're with" - you don't have to own every frog there is, and if you hold off, they will still be available in the future! It's generally true to say that folks with fewer frogs give much better care to their collection than those who keep adding and adding to the collection.
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Welcome aboard. Would it bum you to know that I catch gray treefrogs on my back porch in the summer?
Heh. After work, I come home and spend about an hour giving everyone water and food. Cleaning cages takes about two hours a week. It isn't difficult. All of the geckos eat the same food, so I mix a batch up once a week..it stores well.
I got a few of my pets while I worked at pet stores, but I've also taken in some rescues, and most of my geckos were bought to breed, though a few are just pets. About half of my geckos are babies I will be putting up for sale in a few months.
The darts won't be happening for several months. I'm buying live plants for the bigger tank and I'm going to give them time to grow and figure out how to keep them alive. Unfortumately, I did not inherit my dad's green thumb.
Kurt: A little.![]()
I don't have a green thumb either, but so far my plants are doing awesome. I guess the secret to my success is light and high humidity. I have a piece of plate glass that covers most of the tank's top. I block the opening that that the glass does not cover with paper towels to prevent fruit fly escape and allow some ventilation. Humidity is between 80 & 90%. My $3 bromeliads that I bought on whim have out grown the tank and are flowering. My oak-leaf ficus is beginning to spread all over the place and various ferns have popped up out of nowhere. I am very proud of this little tank (5 gallon) and I wish I had the room for more just like it, only bigger so I can put in more darts.
Kurt, would you mind posting pictures of your tank?
Sorry, I do not have any pictures of my dart tank. Nor do I have a digital camera. I am going to have to borrow one.
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I do have to take pictures for June's NEHS presentation on breeding Agalychnis callidryas.
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