Bognook Tools

Keeper tools

Free, calm, honest little tools for amphibian folk. Each one has one job: reduce the worry and protect the animal. None of them diagnose — they help you act, and tell you when it’s time to call a vet.

🐾 Your animals

Add your animals once — the tools below fill in the species for you, and you can note each one's tank size so the setup planners prefill it. Saved only in this browser; nothing leaves your device, and no account is needed.

Compare Two Amphibians Torn between two animals, or not sure which you actually bought? Put any two side by side: difficulty, space, temperature, water, humidity, diet and lifespan, straight from our care sheets. Open tool → Water Interpreter Enter your water test — axolotl, aquatic frogs, caecilian or aquatic salamanders — and get a plain-language read: what’s safe, what to fix, and how. Open tool → Aquatic Setup Planner For the fully-aquatic crowd — dwarf & clawed frogs, Budgett’s & Surinam toads, the caecilian, and aquatic salamanders. Tank, water, filtration and the drowning-prevention basics. Open tool → What Morph Is My Axolotl? Answer two questions — eye colour and body colour — and name your axolotl’s morph, from leucistic and albino to copper, GFP and the rare ones. Plus the complete morph reference. Open tool → Male or Female? The honest sexing guide for axolotls, pixie frogs, Pacman frogs, tree frogs, toads, dart frogs and newts — the real tells, when you can actually tell, and how reliable it is. Open tool → Is My Animal Okay? A calm symptom checker across every amphibian group — tick what you’re seeing and get likely causes, safe first steps, and clear “see a vet now” signs. Open tool → Setup Safety Audit Is your setup about to cause harm? Tick what’s true of your tank for a personalised risk report — the deadly mistakes to fix, the numbers to double-check, and the warning signs that mean see a vet. Open tool → Dart Frog Vivarium Builder Plan a bioactive dart-frog vivarium: a grouped shopping list with rough costs, the build order, and the “safe to add frogs” readiness gate. Open tool → Tree Frog Setup Planner Get the species-correct climate for all 10 tree frogs — from hardy White’s (they want it drier!) to red-eyed, milk, mossy and monkey frogs — plus a parts list and readiness gate. Open tool → I Found an Amphibian Found a wild frog, toad, newt or salamander? A kind, no-shame guide to the right next step — let it be, get it help, or make your yard its home. Open tool → Is My Tree Frog Fat? The most-asked tree-frog question, answered honestly — tick what you see and find out if your frog is a healthy weight, too heavy, or too thin. Open tool → Ground Frog & Toad Setup The simple get-it-right checklist for terrestrial frogs & toads — Pacman, bullfrog, tomato, chubby frog and the true toads — substrate, temps, water and feeding, plus the honest size reality. Open tool → Salamander: Water or Land? Aquatic, terrestrial, or semi-aquatic? The answer flips by species and life stage — get the right setup and avoid drowning or drying out your animal. Open tool → Feeder-Culture Tracker Log your fruit fly, springtail and isopod cultures and get told what’s producing, what to retire, and exactly when to start the next one — so you never run out of live food. Open tool → Feeding & Care Scheduler Pick your species and its age and get a feeding schedule plus a daily / weekly / monthly care rhythm — water changes, cleaning and the one thing to watch. Printable for the tank. Open tool → Cycling Tracker Cycling a tank before you add your axolotl? Log ammonia, nitrite and nitrate and it tells you which stage of the nitrogen cycle you are in — and when it is finally safe to add your animal. Open tool →