Love frogs, not sure what to get.

[jasonm96]

Yes, when it's wet and water is available for breeding. When they're not in the water breeding, rain or water on leafs could provide moisture. So, I suppose an automatic misting system could suffice. You do have a point about bio-active tanks. A filtered water section won't need more than weekly maintenance. The problem is here that it is small to medium frogs that do best in bio-active enclosures unless the keeper is willing to go all out and purchase custom or large enclosures for larger frogs. I suppose gray tree frogs, native toads or tomato frogs would be nice in a live planted enclosure with a sectioned and filtered water section. All of this will require more space, money and thought/research into it.

Anyway, doesn't solve the issue with food. Most frogs, especially small to medium ones suited to bio-active tanks, that I'm aware of or have kept and other than the gannets (e.g. Whites, pixies and pacmans) need food daily or every other day in small amounts. Letting them gorge on too much food at once to satisfy them for days could cause digestive upsets and when food is plentiful in a captive setting they will eat so much. Dumping loads of crickets in the tank to do for days is not a good way to deliver food. This would be fine every so often if you go on holiday, but a monthly basis the risks are greater. Also insects might eat plants and grow in a larger terrarium and could harm frogs. Supplementation will be lost after few hours of being in the tank. Gut load could be left in the terrarium but this itself needs changed every other day, especially in a warm and or humid environment. It could go off and cause problems.

[Herpin Man]

For your situation, I would recommend one of the native toads (Anaxyrus)- whatever is native, legal, and common in your area would probably be fine. Toads of this genus tend to be hardy, and are very forgiving of slight husbandry errors on the part of the beginning keeper. And while I really wouldn't characterize any amphibians as being handleable on a frequent basis, toads are less delicate than most, due to their thick dry skin. They can usually withstand a wide variation in humidity and temperature, and will eat nearly any live, moving prey that will fit in their mouth. On top of that, they seem to have a lot of personality, as compared to many other batrachians.
I would also like to address what others are saying about not being able to leave your herps alone for a few days- I have found otherwise. Being able to leave them for a few days is actually one of the advantages of keeping herps over many other pets. As long as they are healthy and well fed, and housed correctly, most herps, and certainly frogs and toads, will be just fine being left alone for a few days. I travel quite a bit for business, and routinely leave my herps, and have never had a problem occur as a result- and I have quite a few more than two animals. During longer trips, I usually ask somebody to check on my animals, and those are the only times I have had problems leaving them- when the person checking on them has screwed something up.