We have a new addition to our family.
We were in the garden yesterday, weeding and "winterizing" the flowers, and all of a sudden, Michael says, "Is that a frog?" I looked where he was pointing, and sure enough, there was a little frog hopping through the garden. I rescued it and brought it inside. We quickly abandoned the gardening and ran to Petco for some information on taking care of a frog. We think he is a tree frog (we think he's a he too), just because we live in a desert and there aren't many lakes around for him to be an aquatic frog. :)
We bought a 10 gallon aquarium, a water bowl, some coconut soil (that is supposed to hold moisture really well), a little plastic tree and some dechlorinator for the water we put in the water bowl and mist occasionally around the habitat to keep it moist. We bought some pellets too to feed him, but when we got home and looked closer at the label, we realized that they were sinking pellets, for aquatic frogs. So today while Michael was at work and Finn was getting her nails trimmed, I asked a clerk at Petco what would be the best thing to feed a frog. They said crickets (ewwwww!), and showed me where I could grab a bag of small ones. I brought them home and dumped all 8 of them into the cage, and I'm pretty sure there are only 2 left now. Apparently Kermit was a hungry little guy! We now will have to keep little crickets on hand so Kermit has something to eat!
Meet Kermit
We were in the garden yesterday, weeding and "winterizing" the flowers, and all of a sudden, Michael says, "Is that a frog?" I looked where he was pointing, and sure enough, there was a little frog hopping through the garden. I rescued it and brought it inside. We quickly abandoned the gardening and ran to Petco for some information on taking care of a frog. We think he is a tree frog (we think he's a he too), just because we live in a desert and there aren't many lakes around for him to be an aquatic frog. :)We bought a 10 gallon aquarium, a water bowl, some coconut soil (that is supposed to hold moisture really well), a little plastic tree and some dechlorinator for the water we put in the water bowl and mist occasionally around the habitat to keep it moist. We bought some pellets too to feed him, but when we got home and looked closer at the label, we realized that they were sinking pellets, for aquatic frogs. So today while Michael was at work and Finn was getting her nails trimmed, I asked a clerk at Petco what would be the best thing to feed a frog. They said crickets (ewwwww!), and showed me where I could grab a bag of small ones. I brought them home and dumped all 8 of them into the cage, and I'm pretty sure there are only 2 left now. Apparently Kermit was a hungry little guy! We now will have to keep little crickets on hand so Kermit has something to eat!
Kermit's sweet setup. Please excuse the messy table behind it. :)
Be careful of those crickets. You don't want to have to clean up a flood!
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