New Frog in Town

Here we go again!

 We are frog owners again.  Caleb beg beg beg beg begged to keep it and I was *this close* to insisting he let it go when inspiration struck -I told him that he could keep it if he wrote a story about it every day and when he was tired of writing stories about it, he had to let it go.

Folks, this is going to make a writer out of this kid.

Really it's kind of cute :)

 So we pulled out the old acrylic aquarium and set it up - this time with an island and some philodendron to make it more homey.  The little thing really likes the plants.  I didn't realize with our last frog that during the day, frogs want to hide.

Frog keeping has a bit of a learning curve.  We were replacing the screen on the lid and I knew we wanted a trap door to toss crickets in.  I cut up a plastic bottle to make strips to reinforce the hole when I realized the perfect solution was to make the bottle neck and lid our trap door. 

Crickets like to hide in tubes (being a frog raiser means you are a cricket raiser too) and they make these cricket containers that have tubes built in that can slide out to just shake out in your cricket-eater's home.  I think they look flimsy and I want to try to make one, but my first attempt resulted in crickets loose in the house.  I may have to break down and buy this thing.

In short, Caleb is happy with this arrangement, I'm happier with it than I thought I would be, and we think little Froggy is happy too - at least he hasn't complained about his new situation.