Quote Originally Posted by BUSHSNAKE View Post
im interested in breeding an amphibian to offer as food such as axolotles or reed frogs...any thoughts out there on that?
Yeah, I was just thinking about that. I collected eggs and now have a ton of squirming, thriving little chorus frog tadpoles which have grown tremendously since hatching and need nothing more than an occasional water change and a little flake fish food. Man, these tadpoles would be perfect baby garter food. In just a few months, I'll have little froglets. But alas, now that I have the tadpoles, I have no baby garters.

When I kept adult chorus frogs, they did breed but only produced perhaps 30 eggs, and the frogs are high maintenance. Wouldn't be cost effective or practical, but collecting the wild eggs and raising them, is. Good timing too. Tadpoles are full size about the time that baby garters are available for sale. (April, May)

If only there was a way to ship them alive as baby garter food. There are thousands of them in standing water outside my door, plus the ones I'm raising. I would imagine that the ones I hatched out indoors are free of parasites.

Personally, I wouldn't fuss if I had a garter that ate only pinks. That's fine really, but getting them on fish too, at least gives you other options.