Quarentine for Noonies...

[DigitalPunk]

I have a bunch of the NeHerp media at home. I will look at it tomorrow (unless I forget) and let you know the ingredients.

For the lid of your QT Tub a little trick Lynn shared with me. Get an old Fork and heat the tip of it up under a flame. Push the fork through under side of the lid and it will melt nice small little vent holes.

[Lady]

Paprika and Tumric are used lots of the time in human food as a preservative that prevents mold. I have to avoid those foods like the plague. I found a recepie for cultures that involves mashed bananas, apple sauces, Rolled oats, distilled vinegar, water and bakers yeast. This can be made in batches minus yeast and divided into bags to be frozen to save for later. Then defrost and add yeast as needed for use. My hubby and I think this might be the safest thing for us to use. Since it has real fruit in it it has real vitamins. Yes we will watch for mold and mites. If we have to get ones from the pet store only he will handle them for my sake.

We have also figured out how to make vents for the Qaurentine tank and for a isopod farm in a sweater box. We can get springtails for $5 at the pet store and will also try to keep a culture of them alive too. but we really want to avoid the cost of a second isopod culture since those we have to have shipped.

[DigitalPunk]

The thing I do with the Isopods is set them up in a plastic shoe box sized bin and let them breed for several months before I add some of them to the tank. Isopods are slow breeders and could quickly be made extinct in your tank. Iso's are super easy to culture also

This way you will never run out

[Lady]

The thing I do with the Isopods is set them up in a plastic shoe box sized bin and let them breed for several months before I add some of them to the tank. Isopods are slow breeders and could quickly be made extinct in your tank. Iso's are super easy to culture also

This way you will never run out

we got a shoe box sized plastic tub at the same time we got our quarantine tub just for farming Isopods.

[Lady]

I think I have the water dish for my quarentine. It's the lid to a cream cheese tub washed in hot water.

[Lady]

I talked to Josh from Josh's Frogs on the phone. Turns out Paprika and Tumric are in pretty much every commercial fruit fly mix. He says the old Mashed Bananas, Apples Sauce and Rolled Oats mix is a power mix old frog keepers swore by before commercial mixes. So I will go with it and hope for lots of nice fat flies to feed my little frog.

[Lady]

So now I have the tub set up. It has some non-metal screen held in place by hot glue and silicone in an area just large enough to let me put a clamp lamp. There is a Pothos planted in a small cream cheese tub that was washed with only hot water. The water dish is the lid of the tub sterilized with diluted unscented bleach at the same time I sterilized the whole tub. I also rinsed the whole thing thoroughly with plain hot water. I have a elephant pod for a hut and plan to line it with wet unprinted paper towels and leaf litter. I spray it down with frog safe water a few times a day so the plant does not dry out. I also spray the Vivarium about as often. I am sure it will be moist and warm enough so long as I keep on the ball about misting it. I hope that my frog will find it livable for the short time he will live there.

I also have spare sterile water dish from another cream cheese tub just in case I have to do treatment baths with any medication. I hope I don't but you know what they say about and ounce of prevention.