i just got 2 fire belly toads and the crickets were jumping in the water and drowning.how can i stop this?
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crickets jumping in water....
pac-man
May 31, 2005 08:07 PM
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hotbelly
May 31, 2005 08:45 PM
If your Fire-bellied Toads are anything like mine, they will snatch the prey the second it hits the cage bottom. I usually simply stick the prey item in front of each individual frog and it eats it right away, to avoid competition. I myself have experienced the cricket drowning thing time and time again. It frusterated me so much so that I recently switched to feeding my toads red worms. They're worth checking out. One trick I tried was taking off the back legs of the crickets. I noticed that when they don't have anything to hop around on, they think before they leap a little more. They use their heads a little more and don't jump into the water. This technique stopped the vast majority of crickets from finding the water so quickly. Hope it helps!
-[HOTBELLY]-
