Uvb lighting..good or bad?

[hasunnyson]

Going to tell something you won't like it all is not going to be that pretty for long, you know that right? And you will need to change the substrate once a month too. Is he eating?

Hahah I figured that...I want to at least make it look nice while I still can. He's eating but not much...first day I brought him home he ate 2 night crawlers...then 1 cricket since he's been home. And I've had him since Sunday.

I'm going bioactive so hopefully I don't have to change too much substrate....I was thinking 20/30% of it. Let's see how that goes haha!

[Lija]

Lol okay then. Good news - he is eating! Meaning not stressed out in that big tank. Bad news - bio active and big frogs that produce tons of waste just don't go together. But hey it looks nice now!

[hasunnyson]

Lol okay then. Good news - he is eating! Meaning not stressed out in that big tank. Bad news - bio active and big frogs that produce tons of waste just don't go together. But hey it looks nice now!

Bio active plus spot clean his waste lol....it's a learning process!

[LilyPad]

Bio active plus spot clean his waste lol....it's a learning process!

We all go through a learning process when we're starting I learned a lot in the first month of frog ownership and that was after doing "quick research" before buying what I thought I needed. I also made the mistake of getting advice from a petsmart teenage employee.

[hasunnyson]

We all go through a learning process when we're starting I learned a lot in the first month of frog ownership and that was after doing "quick research" before buying what I thought I needed. I also made the mistake of getting advice from a petsmart teenage employee.

Lol but I love every minute of it! Funny how I was just telling my friends that exact thing. No matter how much research you do..it will never prepare you to actually hold a frog in your hand lolol

[LilyPad]

Lol but I love every minute of it! Funny how I was just telling my friends that exact thing. No matter how much research you do..it will never prepare you to actually hold a frog in your hand lolol

Exactly! And even then, when you think you have things figured out, you get a frog that doesn't follow the book exactly and you have to make adjustments. For instance, if I keep the humidity in my grey tree frog tank to the level that most recommend, I have one male that goes into a panic attack trying to escape. So I keep the humidity a little lower and they have a cycled pond area in their tank where they can do plenty of soaking if need be. But he threw me through a loop because I was doing what was *supposed* to be right and it wasn't working!

[hasunnyson]

Exactly! And even then, when you think you have things figured out, you get a frog that doesn't follow the book exactly and you have to make adjustments. For instance, if I keep the humidity in my grey tree frog tank to the level that most recommend, I have one male that goes into a panic attack trying to escape. So I keep the humidity a little lower and they have a cycled pond area in their tank where they can do plenty of soaking if need be. But he threw me through a loop because I was doing what was *supposed* to be right and it wasn't working!

Haha it's like we said, all a learning process! I just want this frog to have a great life.