New Tank and new to Fire Bellied Toad HELP

[natasha21]

I just got 3 small fire bellied toads and a new tank. I need to know if the tank setup, humidity/temp/ water temp, and feeding ect. are ok for them?

I have 50 gal tank. Is the size ok?

My tank is half water and half land. Is 50/50 ok?

I have 3 1in or smaller gold fish. Is it ok to have them in the same tank?

I feed them 3 crickets every other day - gut loaded with fluker's high-calcium cricket diet and fluker's cricket quencher calcium fortified water gel.

The Temp. is 70f. Is this ok?

The Humidity is 70%-80%. Is this ok?

The Water Temp. is 76f. Is this ok?

Here is a pic of the tank!!!

[Kyle The Toad]

You could actually house many more toads in a tank of that size, it is generally recommended that you allow four gallons of space per toad. I currently have ten toads in a fifty-five gallon and they are healthy and active. Everything else looks okay except for the goldfish. I've read about people keeping fish with toads and they commonly claim that the fish bite fingers and toes from the toads' limbs. Now I don't know if there is any truth to this but I thought it might be something you'd want to consider. By the way, the tank looks pretty good, an excellent environment for fire-bellies.

[natasha21]

Thank you so much for getting back to me!! I don't want my frogs getting hurt. I'll take the gold fish out. What kind of fish could i put in there?

[Kyle The Toad]

I've never kept fish with my toads so I can't give you the best answer. However I do know that some people keep young guppies with their fire-bellies as the occasional snack item. I doubt that juvenile guppies could do any damage to your toads' fingers and toes!

[natasha21]

Thank you for all your help! natasha

[swichone]

nice setup, you should house more toads u have so much space in that big tank

[froggsong]

Wow, I can't believe I missed this one! That's a really beautiful tank you have there. I'd like to see a better picture!

I recommend switching from the flukers products. I, and many others, have had bad results with it. The gutload, if fed all the time, tends to shorten the life of the crickets. I use Mazuri rodent lab block for my feeders, and they do really well on it. They live much longer and are much healthier. Also, if you buy some water crystals online (or at the hardware store, I believe shultz makes them) and hydrate them yourself, you save aloth of money. You can serve it up in a dish, then when it dries up, you can clean out the cricket poop and rehydrate it, that way you don't waste as much.

[dbarrm]

Ive been using flukers for years with my crickets for my tarantula and have never had a problem with it. All my crickets live for a long long time. I think it was about 2 months ago when I last bought some. There like rabbits.

Dan

[froggsong]

Well, it's nice to hear from someone who's had good luck with it.

[beckdg]

just be sure that if your guppies start breeding you scoop them out periodically to keep from over populating. they're prolific breeders that never stop. they can easily and fairly quickly out breed even the biggest of tanks.

aquatic shrimp and snails would be decent additions to your water section. a betta would have more than enough room in there. you could probably do a bristlenose pleco... long finned and albinos can often be found for pretty cheap through aquarium forums. white cloud minnows would be decent if your water is not heated.

about the cricket gel and food... you can save a lot of money and feed them something a lot more healthy for your amphibs if you do it yourself as opposed to just buying flukers. a months to a years worth of food and water crystals can be made in less time it takes to go to the store and buy some also.

in the end though... your feeders = your call... good luck.