Quote Originally Posted by Jenste View Post
In my opinion...the floating moss balls are a bit of a waste of money. It is often just a tiny bit of moss tied around a ping ball with fish thread and a weight.

Moss also has a very low ammonia absorption rate so it won't really help with water quality.
Moss would be an addition really. I know already that they trap micro particles. Which is a plus. I wouldn't really have them tied with strings(I can see that going wrong with these guys).

I may have to buy some fast growers, and amazon swords and the such. The filter will have to be strong enough to pull out (pardon my language) all the **** from the tank without being too powerful to pretty much drag the plants into it and thus clogging it. I hope the water out put to be enough to make some movement but not enough that the frogs will be overly stressed about it. I may have to get that aquavac thing that's basically an aquarium vacuum cleaner(removes dirt from the water without doing a water change) and then that would help with the water changes too.

Also right now because I just "felt" like it-- I went to a specific petstore I somewhat trust and bought two half grown(backlegs grown) american bullfrog tadpoles, I threw them in the tank and the frog is chasing them somewhat. Kinda wanted her to excersice a bit. :V I know someone "somewhere" said feeding frogs (or anything cold blooded really) to amphibians isn't that a good idea because it may contain parasites and the such. But these tadpoles all look healthy to begin with and were treated with salt, and a few meds(they do it to all the new livestock).

While I hold no emotional attachment for "other" frogs because you have to remember it's sorta the cycle of life. In the wild they -would- be eating -anything- that moves in the water. Hence the lateral back(i think that's the world).

They hunt based upon water movement and I'm not fully convinced that pellets should be all of their diet. Just adding worms and shrimp kinda isn't enough of variety. I'd give it something like crawfish but they have claws and -will- injure the frogs.

I saw feeder fish but they're ussually infested with parasites and such. Goldfish are just horrible to feed -any- animal because they're high in fats and hormones and lack basic nutrition.


Over all I hope to do what you showed me, and get some plants that spread around the ground. I like a plant called "baby's tear" but not sure about it.