June 3, 2009
Got a ten gallon reptile tank what to put in it?
greentoadgreentreefrog asked:
I dont want fish its a ten gallon tank i dont want a snake i want a frog or toad what would live in there comfertabuly and is fairly easy to take care of ps no green tree frogs if you tell me one good for ten gallon could you also tell me a bit bout the care thanks
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leopard gecko
what a bout a bull frog
Pac man frog
aka ornate horned frog
They grow to about 7 inches in size and will live in a 10 gallon tank. they like high humidity, temps in the mid 70’s. Must have a water bowl they can climb in and substrate to hide in. They eat crickets fish and even feeder mice when larger. keep food items to no bigger then halft the size of the frog..
I had a leopard gecko and they are great pets and very fun to watch…
The leopard gecko, (Eublepharis macularius), is an ideal pet that takes up little space, has simple food requirements, comes in designer colors and patterns and can withstand the life dealt out by even the most absent-minded of keepers. They are excitable as babies, but harmless, and as adults they become very tame; taking food from your fingers. With a maximum adult size of 7-10″ this lizard is easily handled by supervised children. But remember, their tails can breakoff (and be regrown), so make sure you never pick them up or grab them by that fleshy tail.
Use paper toweling or newspaper for the cage bottom. You can see when it is soiled and the cost is low.
Never use fine sand as a substrate since geckos up to 5″ in length may eat the sand and become impacted.
Always provide water in a shallow lid or bowl that won’t spill.
Use a gallon jar lid or shallow plant dish to serve as a food bowl. It’s nice if the insects you are using as feed don’t escape from this bowl..
Use a 6″ wide plastic container for a hide box. Fill the container with moist peat moss or Vermiculite and cut a 1 1/2″ diameter hole in the lid or side to serve as an entrance for your pet.
Mist the hide box medium daily. This aids in skin shedding, which they eat.
Provide a screen top for your cage; especially if you have young children or cats.
Keep the gecko cage off the floor and create a temperature of 82-88 F for the daytime. The night temperature can go as low as 64 F with no ill effects. Heat can be gained from commercially available reptile heat tapes, hot rocks or a 40-watt light bulb placed over to screen cage top to reach the needed daytime high temperature. Twelve hours of light is fine.
Feed four live food items daily per gecko.
Never let direct sunlight strike your cage, since it will overheat quickly, like a closed automobile standing in open sun, and kill your pet.
Never have more than one male gecko per cage. Adult males of all types of lizards will fight each other, and sometimes to the death, if they come into contact. A male will vibrate its tail rapidly when it sees another gecko. If the other gecko in turn vibrates its tail in the same fashion then each of them knows that contact has been made with another male and a fight will occur. If, however, a male signals his presence via the tail shaking and the other gecko does not respond in like fashion, then the male knows that the gecko near him is in fact a female. This behavior is one means of determining their ***.
Sexing your gecko is not very difficult. Male geckos are larger, heavier in the neck region, have a line of small pores on their belly between their hindlegs which are just in front of the **** opening or vent and they exhibit two swellings at their tail base and just past the vent. Females lack the large size, in general, and the pre-anal pores and post-anal swellings are missing. *** can’t be easily seen until your gecko reaches 5-6″ in total length. Most of the geckos sold in pet shops are females.
You can keep a male with 1 to 10 females all their life. Cage size is the only limiting factor.
Keep a jar lid full of vitamin-mineral powder available in the cage at all times.
For more info on caring for him check out this site:
For info on types of frogs you can get for pets and the pros and cons…. check out
I hope this helped you some. Good luck and God Bless
a baby tree frog, males only grow to 2 inches. great fun, always hopping….
TURTLE!!! red eared slider!
I love my turtle. his name is Myrtle!!! (I got him in myrtle beach!)
The cool thing bout turtles is that they grow to there enviroment. I have a twenty gallon tank, and he is about 5 inches long. They can only grow to be 12-13inches. My seventh grade teacher had his in school and she roamed the halls, she is 13inches long!!! I love my turtle because he is so much fun! ESPECIALLY during the summer and i take him outside and i put him in the grass, and he is SO fast for a turtle!
GET A TURTLE!!!!!!
HOLY CRAP, Funny-Trombone-Girl is VERY wrong!!!!
they do NOT grow to their e-n-v-i-r-o-n-m-e-n-t, they keep growing! don’t bother posting if you have no idea what you are talking about. a red ear slider will not live in a ten gallon tank for very long and from the looks of it, neither will Funny-Trombone-Girl’s.
several species of small toad would be happy in a 10, but bigger is always better. have you considered a scorpion or a tarantula? buy a book or google a care sheet for whatever you choose, and follow the care instructions EXACTLY!