[AquaticLife] Paludarium inhabitants
Yes, the Oriental Fire-bellied Toad http://www.amphibian.co.uk/bombina.html http://www.amphibiancare.com/frogs/caresheets/firebelliedtoad.html
They have been known to live up to 16 years in captivity! I posted about them a little while ago. You need to make sure they can get a foothold from the aquatic part to the land part. Barring that as a problem, they are very sturdy and don’t drown like terrestrial frogs do. Crickets are more nutritious than worms, especially if you gut load the crickets in advance. Just get a few, like 15 or so 2-week old crickets and keep them in a container with nutritious food like a slice of broccoli. Replendish daily. The toads only need to be fed once a week or so (they are greedy GLUTTONS), and 15 crickets will last for ages. When you run out of young crickets you can serve waxworms and other small worms but worms are harder to digest, lower in nutritional content and more fattening.
Don’t overdo with the lighting; it stresses out the tank inhabitants. Use low-light plants like the chinese evergreen, peace lily and devil’s ivy. There are others, just google ‘low light tropical plants’.
Christa
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