A friend of the family with three enclosed ponds on her property mentioned a problem she found when preparing her pool this spring.

The cover wasn't on well enough over the winter and as the spring progressed it became her fourth pond. Algae, frogs, etc. Tons of frogs. Being a critter lover, she scooped and moved as many of the tadpoles and egg sacks as she could manage and did what she could to encourage the Grey Tree Frogs and Peepers (I didn't see any that matched the Peepers pictures I could find nor anything that sounded like their call, but...) to move along.

She saved a jar of eggs and tadpoles for us tro bring home and see how many we could get to make it to froglets. We have a lot of spare tanks from keeping Hermit Crabs, thought it would be an interesting use and having so many ponds, if we ended up with many more than we could care for, we have a good place to release the froglets.

While we were out there to pick up the jar she was working on her pool a bit and stirring up the frogs in the process. One I picked up seemed to take a liking? to me and stayed on my hand for most of an hour. Even sang with the others around the pool while on my hand. Once it was time to go, we decided if he didn't bail on the trip to the house he must have picked us.

So I'm trying to get this tank straightened up. The 10 he's in is not tall enough, from what I'm reading, but I have another ten with a cracked bottom I figure I can knock the bottom out of and piece them together. As our usual tank guests have gills, I may be stressing over the humidity a little too much. How high should it be ? I used a full brick of cocofiber, which should help.

We're not sure if he's eating yet and if I'm looking at things right i probably put in too many crickets this first go round. Sounds like I just need more climbies and hidies.

I have dechlor with and without slimecoat, is there a preference?

Is there anything I should watch out for with the mineral supplements?

Is there a "Gutloading for dummies" tutorial?

Thanks.