rich, i just want to clear some things up that i still am in question about. You had said that you use peat brick, in all 70 of your frog tanks. And have had no problem with infestation of nasties. Do you mean nasties being worms, or something else?

and in the post on jan 8 2005, with the info your brother had wrote... he said that "well over 90% of the frog fecal samples he has run have had internal parasites. And he said that the problem is that the frogs [bleep] hundred of infective worm eggs out each day, into a tiny space where they are constantly bombarded with an ever increasing number of hungry little worms waiting to catch a ride into the next frog that happens by."

Please don't think i'm trying to be a wise ass. I can't seem to add 2 2.

How do you and your bro successfully take care of so many tanks?

I have a layer of terra-lite clay pellets, then screen, substrate, moss. I remove any droppings i see, as i see them. And i use water from a jug, and or a spray bottle (one of those you pump up then spray) to shower down the tanks i have every week. But one problem i have is that water builds up quickly,a few of my tanks are fish tanks, with tempered glass, i couldn't do a self draining type, with the hole near the bottom of the tank and tubng that runs into a jar you can easily dump out. so i had to rig up this drainage system. I think its a faucett water supply hook up or something, made of a hard plastic, from home depot. I cut it to size, I placed that as a permanent fixture cutting the right size hole through the screen, down through the terra-lite pellets, to the very bottom of the tank. ANd (while at home depot i found the plastic tubing that perfectly fits into the top of the permanant fixture when i want to drain excess water from the bottom of the tank. And then i use the rubber squeeze part of a turkey baster to get the water flowing, so i can dispose of it.

But it seems like alot of successful froggers don't rinse the tank like i do. And do you and your bro remove fecal droppings from yours?

So is this right, most frogs carry worms/parasites, but most can be cured, through use of medications?- thanks for your input-amanda





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Edited on January 11, 2005 at 16:08:22 by phwyvern.

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