Side Quests

After an unfortunate, unexpected (but statistically inevitable) visit to the ER this week, we’re finally back home. My husband is dealing with some built up pressure from all the medications so I came up with this soup that will hopefully help.

👩🏻‍🍳 Recipe

Since I was feeling challenged by a potential endless maintenance of a fruit fly colony in the house, I started researching into other creatures that can thrive inside a bioactive vivarium. Came across these lil colorful dudes- the Neon Day Gecko. I wan’t originally considering geckos, but this one is just big enough to mainly live off of a paste diet with some supplemental insects – instead of (ugh) live flies being their main nutrient option.

Been researching more into other types of frogs and their care. Thumbnail dart frogs are even smaller and can be better kept in groups. I specifically like the Ranitomeya Variabilis ‘Southern’ or the Ranitomeya Imitator ‘Tarapoto’.

But I’m having such a hard time acclimating to the idea of maintaining multiple live fruit fly cultures at a time. It sounds like keeping flies are far more work to upkeep compared to taking care of the actual frogs…

Made a new friend who has a pet pac-man frog and now I’m kinda interested in a pet frog. She kinda sold me on the idea of having a terrarium and it’s generally low maintenance. I’ve always liked the idea of making one and I think poison dart frogs are very pretty. Need to do a lot of research and design inspo – I really like the idea. We already came up with some potential names for the frogs such as Ube, Boba, Taro, and Potatas – I think we really like root vegetable names 😅