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 #1463197


Mrs. froggie
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 I have an important Question!

My Q is.
Would my american toads, paman frog, and whites treefrog eat pinkes?
Cause I want to breed pinkes.



09/30/07  05:17pm

 #1463202


Mrs. froggie
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   Message To: Mrs. froggie   In reference to Message Id: 1463197


 I have an important Question!

Lease are all of my american toads.
Are they big enough to eat pinkies, or not?



Here is my whites treefrog.
Is he also big enough to eat them.


I don’t have a pic of my pacman frog... yet!
:P



09/30/07  05:21pm

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JackAsp
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   Message To: Mrs. froggie   In reference to Message Id: 1463202


 I have an important Question!

It’s not really worth it. Pinkies are not good for American toads. They are the fattiest stage in a mouse’s development. Even giant toads shouldn’t be fed a lot of mice, and they eat much leaner healthier ones than an AT can. Fat doesn’t just mean "not svelte." It means sudden organ failure leading to miserable death at an earlier age than you should be losing them. If you try to keep them trim by just feeding them less, they’ll not only miss out on the fun of snapping up many, many smaller items, but they’ll miss out on a lot of nutrients, and wind up screwed that way instead.

White’s treefrogs and horned frogs can eat pinkies in moderation. That means like one a month is plenty. it shouldn’t fill them up any more than a normal meal of crickets would. When they’re big, you give them older, leaner mice (but still small ones! don’t play "Look how big a meal my frog can swallow!" or they end up about as healthy later in life as those eating champions who wolf down 40 or 50 hot dogs tend to.) once a month, not just more pinkies.

So if one female mouse has six babies a month, you’ve already got half a year’s supply in the freezer. And if you try to really load up, the vitamins will degenerate in them after that time period, so in two months of breeding you’d have too many.

If you’re also raising snakes, then I can see it. But just for two frogs, both of for which too many mice is a very common cause of premature death, it’s not practical. You’d be better off raising guppies, crickets, roaches, or silkworms. Even just from a financial standpoint, it would cost you at least as much to raise mice yourself as to simply buy a couple of pinkies a month.
10/01/07  02:04pm

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Mrs. froggie
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   Message To: JackAsp   In reference to Message Id: 1464108


 I have an important Question!

Okay thanks so much, JackAsp! :-)
10/02/07  06:01pm

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JackAsp
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   Message To: Mrs. froggie   In reference to Message Id: 1465418


 I have an important Question!

By the way, great treefrog! For some reason I couldn’t see the pictures until today, though.
10/02/07  09:11pm

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Mrs. froggie
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   Message To: JackAsp   In reference to Message Id: 1465655


 I have an important Question!

Thanks Melon is only about one year or so. Do you have any pics of your pets that I can see?
:]



10/03/07  03:55pm

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JackAsp
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   Message To: Mrs. froggie   In reference to Message Id: 1466297


 I have an important Question!

OK.
Nowadays I’ve finally become one of the few here that can fit them all on one page.
There’s just Boots, Bebe, Hengo, Minerva, and Queequeg.

This is an old picture, but Boots has looked like this forever. She turned twenty in July.


Coastal Carpet Python

Bebe is just over a year old. This picture was taken the day I got her in May. She’s grown a LOT, but I don’t have any newer ones loaded onto the computer. Still just as cute though.


Western Hognose Snake

If you like big toads, I know you’ll like Hengo. She’s fourteen ounces in this picture, which seems to be her optimum weight. She’s broken seventeen when I was overfeeding her, but I’ve learned to be a bit more careful.


Cane Toad.

Remember Minerva Mink on "Animaniacs?" This is Minerva Skink.


White-Banded Ground Skink

I’ve only had Queequeg about a month, and it’s hard to get good action shots in a giant grey Rubbermaid, but here he is. He usually stretches and kicks more while I’m handling him, but this was taken after I’d taken him out of the tub, put him in the feeding bucket, fed him, taken him out again, gotten the idea to finally take a few pictures, looked around for my camera with him in my hand, found it, tried to find an angle with clear lighting... by the time I had a decent shot, he was like "OK, I’m just gonna sit here. Whatever you’re doing, I assume you ARE going to put me back in the water afterwards, right?"


Northern Diamondback Terrapin

Unless I start taking pictures of feeder bugs, that’s all of ’em.



10/07/07  03:22am

 #1470251


Mrs. froggie
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   Message To: JackAsp   In reference to Message Id: 1470103


 I have an important Question!

Wow I can’t belive that snake is 20 years old! I used to have to painted turtle... But my mom got read of them, They stunk to much. I wish I could have a Skink... and those two snakes. Cool.
Lol.
$ Emma $
10/07/07  10:12am

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JackAsp
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   Message To: Mrs. froggie   In reference to Message Id: 1470251


 I have an important Question!

I expected the turtle to be more of a stink problem. But he was over three inches and the previous owner was still keeping him in a five and a half gallon tank, so I gave him a shot. The keys seem to be lots of water, multiple filters spread around, no gravel or anything so it’s still cleanable pretty quickly if needed (all I have in there is deep water, smooth bricks, filters, and plastic plants to hide under/hang onto) and feeding him in a seperate container. Once a day I move him into a pickle bucket, feed him, and then put him back home, so all the uneaten shredded up scraps get thrown out instead of rotting in his tub. He usually poops in the feeding tub once he starts getting full, too. I’ve seen his home water look dirty at the bottom, and treated it accordingly but smell hasn’t been a problem. Surprisingly.
10/07/07  02:55pm


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