posted on Oct, 9 2010 @ 03:13 PM
reply to post by speculativeoptimist
All that stuff was a emerging project that I did with my kids before things went south with thier mother and I..
We found some tadpoles in a puddle and we took a bunch of them home with us.. WE ended up having something like 125 toadlets.. I did mad research to
figure out how to keep this things alive.. for the 1st few weeks I was feeding them outside bugs and termites... thats why the 10g is filled with them
above.. there were something like 12,000 termites and a queen they morphed into after i caught them so the termites were making alot of them..
Above the termites were pill bugs(potato bugs) and centipedes.. We worked all spring and summer making an ecosystem in that 10g tank for the bugs to
be able to produce on thier own.. not including termites.. you add wood and dirt and they are fine..(yes i was terrified that the termites were going
to exape constantly..)
To the roaches.. I found out that feeding the toads the roaches would be better for them than giving them crickets(I gave them crickets also while
they were tiny cause the toads were still small and couldnt eat the roaches still.. Plus those roaches couldnt climb glass and didnt stink as bad as
crickets and didnt make noises.. so they worked out well for me..
After things went south with my kids mother and I, I left the toads roaches and bugs at the house so the kids can be responsible and take care of
them.. I aint sure how it happened but somehow the toads tank got a virus supposedly and killed the toads.. The person the kids mother had living with
her right after we broke up used the bug tank with the termites and other bugs as a storage for a rat.. in a week it killed all the bugs..
The roaches I took out after a month or so, so the kids wouldnt kill them.. I was planning on setting up another toad hangout like i did before but
this past winter my crazy ex decided she didnt want the roaches in her house after a yr. so I had to kill them off(I really didnt want to but wtf, ya
know.. get thrown out cause of bugs or get rid of them..) Anyway that is the story on my pets and thier demise.. it sucked though I had fun raising
them toads and learning alot about them..