My pet frogs

Last Friday I caught some frogs in a pond near my house. They are baby Marsh frogs and, as you can see, they are excellent hunters. I'm keeping them in a large plastic box which imitates their their natural habitat. They are quite young so they have colour variations and don't all look the same. Some of the younger ones stick to the small invertebrate diet wile the bigger ones prefer to eat flies, moths and small insects in general.

Here is a video I made so you can see them feeding on an ant I gave them: you will see how the frog first tastes its prey and then eats it.



This method of keeping a little pond is a good one because it creates a micro-habitat that works the same way as the real one, though you must be careful not to put in too many predators like frogs otherwise the food-chain would be unstable and fail.