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[Jace]

Nothing says "I love you honey" like a toad gift!! Best Valentine's Day present I ever got was my female African Giant Bullfrog.

[Skulldroog]

Nothing says "I love you honey" like a toad gift!! Best Valentine's Day present I ever got was my female African Giant Bullfrog.

Haha, that's a pretty good present. My girlfriend LOVES Guinea pigs, and wants one for her birthday at the end of July. Looks like I'll be housing a rodent soon. Lol.

[adawinters]

I hear you, Kristy. My husband and I have an unspoken arrangement between my animals, his musical gear, and the limited space of our two-bedroom apartment. We've both agreed to ask each other before taking up more space for our hobbies, to try to be patient with each others' hobbies, and to be respectful if the other's feeling a little "crunched" by the lack of space. Frankly, if we hadn't wound up with this arrangement, we'd have nothing but a pathway to navigate from room to room, with tanks on one side, and Moogs and guitars and drums on the other.

(The good news is that, with time, he grows to like my pets, so it's rarely a hard sell to talk him into "just one more." The bad news is that, love animals though I do, I just can't imagine having any less space than we do now, so no more tanks for me... after the 55G I just bought to house the 3 juvies I'm keeping from my axolotls' last clutch.)

[hyla]

Here I sit, with only one gray tree frog to my name. I left the matter alone last night and brought it up again today...did a little batting of the eyelashes and reminded my husband of his wonderful birthday weekend that I had just made possible for him and still I got a big fat "NO MORE ANIMALS!" Then later on when I showed him a pic online of a fire belly he grimaced and said "Eew, Kristy." So after a bit of back and forth he ended the convo with, "You're gonna just go do what you want anyways, so why are you even asking me?" HA! And now I am back to the original reason for posting..why did I bother to ask him in the first place? But he said that on purpose because now Ill be a selfish little brat if I go and buy it!

[bshmerlie]

Just wait until he wants to go buy a drum or something. Then "spring" out the frog.

[1beataway]

Kristy, Kristy, Kristy...don't you see? He just said he understood you'll do what you want anyways. Sounds like permanent permission for anything. Take advantage of it.

[UncleChester]

Here I sit, with only one gray tree frog to my name.

Do you breed your own feeders? If not, you should ("it's cheaper" is a good excuse to give your husband to start breeding crickets). Producing more than one gray can eat should be no problem. You then need fire bellied toads to eat the surplus.

This is my approach, I have a cricket surplus, I just need to get a tank ready for fire bellies. Though my girlfriend is ok with it as long as she doesn't have to do any of the handling of the feeder bugs, having a good excuse doesn't hurt.

[hyla]

No,I dont breed feeders. Thanks for the suggestion, but I dont know that would work...You see, I have only a small tolerance of crickets for the frogs sake of course. I prefer to only have a couple dozen on hand at a time, more costly yes, but errr, I dont like em! I would be willing to culture another type of feeder though...and of course this in turn would probably upset my other half more. If it isnt a cat or dog, he wants very little to do with it. So small minded!

[UncleChester]

I don't really like crickets either, that's why I'm ok condemning them to death-by-frog. I could never keep an animal that needed to eat mice...

Mealworms are pretty easy to breed, and I hear some types of roaches are as well. Having lived in an apartment building with a roach infestation, I'm not allowed to try to breed any kind of roach (I think it's actually illegal here anyways). My girlfriend is pretty tolerant, but not that tolerant.