Grow a Frog Kit
Grow a Frog: With this kit, you can witness an unforgettable life-cycle metamorphosis right before your very eyes! From jelly-like eggs to wriggling tadpoles and ultimately into an independent creature with arms and legs. Watch as its long tail disappears while its horny teeth fade away and its lungs develop.
Feeding
Frogs require regular food sources in order to survive and grow. Furthermore, they need access to clean water sources with high humidity in their environment to prevent diseases like pneumonia. As they absorb liquid through their skin rather than drinking directly through their mouths, frogs require ample amounts of fresh water in their habitat and regular misting sessions can provide essential benefits in keeping disease at bay.
Frog food can be purchased at most pet stores or bait shops, with insects providing the necessary nutritional balance. Fruit, vegetables or table scraps from humans should not be fed as these do not meet amphibians’ nutrient needs and could potentially introduce diseases into their system. Furthermore, wild caught prey items should also be avoided due to parasites that could make your frog sick.
Size determines how frequently frogs should be fed; small ones should be given daily meals while larger frogs might need feedings twice weekly or even less frequently. It is wise to dust insects with calcium and vitamin powder prior to feeding them to frogs for maximum nutritional benefit.
Insects should be of an appropriate size for their respective frog. For instance, fruit flies or maggots would not provide enough sustenance for a white’s tree frog, while frozen thawed mouse might be too big to sustain one of the larger dart frog species. It is also wise to feed each meal a few “gut loaded” insects — these are simply similar insects fed a diet consisting of sweet potatoes in order to boost their nutritional content – to supplement their sustenance requirements.
At feeding time, it’s advisable to place the serving spoon directly over a frog’s eyes so it can see all its food within its straight up range and avoid anything it cannot digest. This mimics nature as frogs capture prey using this same method – teaching your frog awareness of its environment while feeding time!
Water Changes
There’s plenty of well-meaning advice around about water changes that is incorrect. One such piece of advice suggests frequent water changes to keep nitrate levels down – something which simply isn’t true, as other techniques exist for doing just this – water changes rarely need to happen in order to do this! In fact, as Sparkyjones points out, most microorganisms residing in tanks live mostly on surfaces rather than underwater, and thus making water changes less important overall; performing them will however remove contaminants that have entered from entering.