I'm with you Gail, only better, I was able to haul my terrarium into a 1st
grade class room with a few tree frog eggs. The terrarium water part only
holds about a gallon of water. I used a small undergravel filter from a
large brandy glass shaped fish bowl. I can't say I was the best keeper as
far as water changes (with my pond water) and feeding went, but after 9
weeks and on the 2nd to the last day of school we had a tree froglet stuck
to the glass of the aquarium. It was so small that from the outside we
thought it was a snail. Course I looked closer as I was wondering why it
had crawl so far up the glass out of the water. This all came home with me,
when school got out, but not wanting to deal with any more "inside" pets
they got to go in the kiddy pool with the lotus, while I sang "Born Free".
kidding ;-)

If you need another "indoor" pond project let me know and I'll repost my
Ponsai directions. Or make a fairy garden complete with mini pond:
http://users.owt.com/jjspond/koipond/photos/pond22.jpg :-) By this time
you should be thinking, "I'm not the only bored ponder hindered by
weather." ;-) ~ jan

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:17:13 GMT, "Gail Futoran" wrote:

Ways to get into trouble when it's too hot to work
outside for long:
-take a spare 2 gallon Eclipse aquarium and set it
up in the bathroom on the (generous) vanity
-add some treated tap water and fill up with pond
water
-add several anacharis
-add some aquarium decorations (clean)
-scoop up some tadpoles in a bucket
-add tadpoles to "pond"
-Wait to see what happens.

I get a gadzillion tadpoles in my inground pond then
most disappear and I never get to see what they turn
into. So this is the solution. I'm not filtering the
water (did include a bubble wall) but I monitor it,
mostly by smell, and will probably do a careful partial
water change every week or so. The tadpoles seem
happy. I feed them some algae flakes I use for my
tropical fish but they also can be seen working on the
tank sides and the decorations. The light is on during
the day and I turn it off at night.

Gail
near San Antonio TX Zone 8


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