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How to Care for a Pet Tiger Salamander : How to Feed Tiger Salamanders

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Learn how to feed tiger salamanders in this free video clip about caring for a pet salamander.

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How should I care for my Fire Bellied Toad eggs?

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I have a gelatinous roll of what I'm almost positive are eggs. I've heard a few different methods for caring for them, but last time I had eggs they only shriveled up into nothing. If somebody could explain to me the best way to care for these eggs so that they will hatch, it will be much appreciated.

The eggs should be transferred to another aquarium. After 3 days at 24ºC (77ºF) the eggs will hatch. For another 3 days, while consuming the yolk sac, the tadpoles don't move around at all. After that they'll begin swimming around, trying to find something to eat.

The tadpoles can be raised on finely crushed flakes, frozen or freeze dried fish food.

The hind legs will begin to break through about 3 weeks after the eggs hatched and the 'arms' will begin to appear about a week later. Five weeks after hatching, the first frogs will go through metamorphosis and will be ready to leave the water.

The froglets will eat any kind of small insects and larvae. They'll be ready to breed before they are a year old. The eggs of younger and smaller females tend to be fewer and smaller in size.
http://www.anapsid.org/bombina.html

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White's Tree Frog care?

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From numbers 1 -10 What would you rate the difficulty of taking care of the frogs. (Seperate) 1-10 The maintinance?

Hello! 🙂

White's Tree Frogs are excellent pets! I love the croaking noises that they make. :)) Makes you seem like your outside when you hear them!
They are not difficult to take care of, it just depends on how much time you want to devote to maintenance and how many frogs you have in the tank at one time.
As the fogs need to eat crickets, meal worms..etc, they defecate ( as all living things do) and this causes a bit of a mess down the side of the aquarium glass and on the substrate below. They also need constant moisture and humidity! They need this for their skin integrity.
They also need a heat source as you need to simulate day time…
You should purchase a book on caring for them as I could keep writing re: them for a bit here 😉 lol.
If you don't keep them clean (which is quite important), they will get little mites in the substrate below them and these mites are quite hard to get rid of once you have them!
You would probably need to wipe out and clean their cage once a week to every ten days…

They are beautiful animals to have as pets! Just as with every pet though, there is time you need to dedicate to maintenance and care. Please as I said above read, read, read on them… I hope I helped a bit and good luck! 😉

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Froglets and food.?

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Ok I'm raising 112 tadpoles for 11 classes in my mom's school. I have raised them before for a few years, but every time it's come to froglets it've kinda been a lil ify on food. I've tried (altho i dont kno if it helped) to give them turtle food in past years (that is, dried maggots origionally for turtles), and once it comes in overseas I'm trying foster and smith's amphibian food so see if it works.

I was also thinking of cultavating maggots (put old meat in a jar, cover with gauze, and let flies lay eggs on the gauze-like that one italian guy did in the 1500's), but I have no clue if it would work.

I would give them bloodworms but my attempts to find them in the wild are failures and the petstore stopped carrying them.

Will the turtle food work, or even some raw meat? I always thought movement triggered the reaction.

Thank you sooo much.
Also these are froglets that just barley lost their tails completely.

Aren't froglets cute??

In the wild, the froglets would have food available at all times and it is important that the froglets can feed when they feel the need. To provide food in the setup, springtails can be introduced into the substrate and a piece of fruit can be left in the setup which will attract the fruit flies. By doing this, the froglets should be able to find food without the food causing stress to the froglets (i.e., the flies crawling on the froglets). Froglets should always have food available. Some people have reported that froglets that go more than 24 hrs without food may die.

If you don't know where to get springtails – go here:
http://www.edsflymeat.com/

Good luck!
~Morgana

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