Amy, I feel your pain lol. This hobby has consumed all of my free time...as well as a good portion of my non-free time I'm constantly lurking on craiglist like a cyberstalker for cheap aquariums. And since I live in a cramped NYC apartment...with my parents...who are not terribly supportive of these endeavors, the biggest challenge for me is finding the space to fit new tanks where they would ideally escape notice or at least blend in as subtlely as possible so I wouldn't get harangued about it. Yes, we're talking about HIDING a large, well-lit glass habitat. I don't need more frogs...I need David Copperfield.

Right now I have 5 gray tree frogs in a 20 gallon vertical, 2 pacific chorus froglets due to go in a zoo med 18 x 12 x 12, a 30 gallon extra tall in the works for undecided species, another 20 gallon vertical on the way for a pair of red eyed; and a large cricket bin, all in my bedroom. Not to mention the stockpiles of driftwood, sphagnum, hydroton and other supplies. It's not my room anymore - it's the frogs' room - I'm just sleeping in it.

And I really want yellow-eyed leaf frogs, and darts, and, now that you mentioned it, glass frogs. So as a fellow frogaholic, I'm not really qualified to advise how to stop. I guess you just have to take an honest assessment of your priorities. If you in any way lack the time, energy and financial resources to devote to another species and ALL of your current charges, don't do it.


P.S. They sell glass frogs at your local pet shop? No fair! But seriously though, if they're not CB, I wouldn't encourage the practice of frognapping from the wild.