Uh Oh. Gonna have babies

[alane]

Ok, well, i'm going to make a confession. I feel that some folks will take this poorly, but I feel I should share anyway.

It is common knowledge that Fire Belly Toads are poisonous, mildly so.

It's common knowledge that PacMan frogs will readily eat another frog.

I had a tank with a hundred FBTs.

I reasoned this way: Perhaps the FBTs do not develop their poison until they grow up.

So.... (you can see where this is going)


On a day where Doug, the Pacman frog was hungry, i put some toadlets in a container next to him. He wanted them.

So, I gave him the smallest. He ate 'em up, no problem. NOM! Doug the Pacman will eat two at a time.

Well, the next week I fed Doug, and being wary of the poison toadlets, I gave him a toadlet that was four weeks old. Not a freshly hatched one.

And.... (i'm not proud of this by the way)

Bubbles. Bubbles came out of my Pacman frog's nose after he ate it.

Ugh. Oops. That was the end of that experiment.

This was many many months ago, my Pacman frog is still growing like a weed. That incident did not seem to cause lasting damage.

And I still got a tank of FBTs, but more like 30 and not 100.

I am going with nightcrawlers right now for both species of frog (and small crickets for the FBT toadlets). This sort of food fattens them up good.