We have some toads...1 fire bellied toad purchased, 1 gray tree frog and 3 toads caught on the family farm. The 2 big toads are by themselves, while the tree frog, fire bellied toad and small american toad are together. Tanks are 10 gallon aquariums.

I have them on aquarium gravel at the moment, but will get substrate. I also plan on putting a couple of branches in for the tree frog to climb. The large toads have a potted bonzai tree in there at the moment (needed light as wife had it in a dark room and the leaves fell off).

We feed them crickets. I have a plant strip light that I sort of go back and forth with from the tanks. I just bought a plant/aquarium light to go in an aquarium fixture, but the kid broke the starter, so I have to get another one.

We also have a heat lamp bulb in a brooder lamp from Wal Mart's pet section (I got the purple, night use one), but I'm not sure if we really need it. The screen top is hard plastic on the sides with a middle strip of screen where a hood light would go. It's easy to put melt marks in the plastic of the light is not centered. It is easy to use as it has slide slips to fasten down, and round ports that come out to feed them.

I have a heat rock (from a snake a long time ago) that I'm thinking of using. Again, not really sure if we need it. I'm going to put thermometers in the tanks. Temps stay from about 68-70 with a/c on high up to mid-70s. Not sure about this winter. Will the toads hibernate in this environment? I know our box turtles shut down, regardless. We keep them in a tub full of topsoil and mulch in a back room over the winter.

At the present time, we have water in the tanks with a depression in the middle of the gravel in one; a pet water bowl in the other tank. We mist both tanks daily with a spray bottle.

We feed them crickets a couple of times a week. The little ones get .12 each crickets from Petco, while the big toads get large crickets from Gander Mountain ($1.99 for a "suck-a-tube full"...). I'll probably dust them with vitamins.

We keep screen tops on the tanks and they are kept next to a window which has subdued lighting from the backyard.

Anyway, that's about it. Any suggestions?