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    dj1
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    Default Re: Interested in getting a Fire Belly! Am I ready?

    I have replied to this thread but it doesn't seam to have appeared so here goes again.
    I would reverse the idea of land and water, I'd put the land in the smaller container made up of different size pebbles and a few logs and live plants FBT are very aquatic and usually feed in water either catching floating insects, or grabbing them and diving into the water, as they don't have tongues this seams to help them over power the prey. I don't use meal worms, flies and crickets as well as spiders and small smooth caterpillars make up the bulk of my European FBT diet, meal worms tend to sink in the water and are lost.
    Make sure you have larger stones around your island so they can get out of the water to bask if they have a light, even only a 10 watt bulb does for them.also if you use under gravel plates under the water topped with gravel an airline can be rigged up with an air pump if you can get an extension socket and the water will be filtered saving draining it out,all the time, these toads do produce a lot of waste for their size. aquatic plants also help if they have enough light and allow the toads to hunt their prey on the surface stems. Good luck with what ever you do, but more water the better. Think of them more as turtles than toads.
    Last edited by dj1; November 10th, 2014 at 05:16 PM. Reason: spelling

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