With a simple desire to use tickets we had won at a place called Trafalga.
They used to have aquatic frogs there that you could get with tickets from the games, but the next time we went, there weren't any. So we tried Wal-Mart. No luck. They did have lots of bettas and a few other types of fish. So we started thinking about fish. We went to another pet shop hoping for aquatic frogs--no luck, but they had darts! I thought they were pretty neat, so I spent the whole weekend researching them, their housing, their food, etc. The more I read, the more excited I got.
I used to keep frogs as a child. Well, mostly common toads, but since I was so young, I never quite got the feeding part right, and they were mostly turned loose by parents because I couldn't feed them.
In honor of MLK Jr., we decided to get a pet. (our way of demonstrating civil disobedience to our Nazi apartments) I built a very simple terrarium (no plants, so not a viv yet) and bought my first dart. The pet shop had three. Within the next week, they had none and I had three. Funny how that works, no?
Since then, I've learned a ton--how to maintain a food source for them, how to keep the appropriate habitat for them, how to turn a terrarium into a vivarium, so on. I will continue to post more about these experiences--hopefully to inform and possibly interest others in following this fascinating hobby. There are many reasons to keep darts.
Here are some pics from when I first got them. I will post more later to show how much healthier they look than when I got them.
I'll be honest--I'm not a huge fan of naming frogs and other small animals, but it is nice for my wife to say--oh good! Fred is out eating again... I know which one she is talking about.
They used to have aquatic frogs there that you could get with tickets from the games, but the next time we went, there weren't any. So we tried Wal-Mart. No luck. They did have lots of bettas and a few other types of fish. So we started thinking about fish. We went to another pet shop hoping for aquatic frogs--no luck, but they had darts! I thought they were pretty neat, so I spent the whole weekend researching them, their housing, their food, etc. The more I read, the more excited I got.
I used to keep frogs as a child. Well, mostly common toads, but since I was so young, I never quite got the feeding part right, and they were mostly turned loose by parents because I couldn't feed them.
In honor of MLK Jr., we decided to get a pet. (our way of demonstrating civil disobedience to our Nazi apartments) I built a very simple terrarium (no plants, so not a viv yet) and bought my first dart. The pet shop had three. Within the next week, they had none and I had three. Funny how that works, no?
Since then, I've learned a ton--how to maintain a food source for them, how to keep the appropriate habitat for them, how to turn a terrarium into a vivarium, so on. I will continue to post more about these experiences--hopefully to inform and possibly interest others in following this fascinating hobby. There are many reasons to keep darts.
Here are some pics from when I first got them. I will post more later to show how much healthier they look than when I got them.
I'll be honest--I'm not a huge fan of naming frogs and other small animals, but it is nice for my wife to say--oh good! Fred is out eating again... I know which one she is talking about.
My frogs from left to right: Bill, Fred, George--pretty skinny when I first got them.
Fred
Bill
Bill
George
George and Fred
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