I decided, if I want to try and raise a batch of tadpoles, I'd better look into raising some insects first. Crickets seemed like a popular choice. I got an extra aquarium stand that was at my parents house, cleaned up two empty ten gal. aquariums and put screen lids on them that I also found among my stuff from my mouse keeping days. This is a great use of my aquariums that came from my parents house that they carelessly cracked while in storage.
I go online to research raising crickets in tanks and find it a bit more complicated then I'm prepared for. So the project is stalling a bit for me for me to figure out how to get these tanks properly ready for crickets.
I guess the preferred method to let the crickets lay eggs in one tank and move the eggs into another tank to hatch into baby crickets. No problem, I have plenty of empty tanks laying around.
Now, if this succeeds, I hope for now my fish like crickets because the plans are probably to wait until the end of the hiking season to setup for pet frogs.