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With a relatively small investment of time from you, your toad will make a very enjoyable pet.
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Comments
smileycatsmama said
on 9/17/2007 Hi. My son just got a toad and we bought a 10 gallon aquarium for it. The pet store said to feed it crickets, but how many do they eat a day/week? I would also like to vary its diet, so I will give it other things mentioned here. Right now we have the reptile mulch in there (per instructions from the pet store--basically chopped up mulch that is about the size of small wood chips, not small enough for them to swallow and untreated) a good sized piece of bark it likes to sleep under, a bowl of water, some grass and fern. Should we add some rocks too? I have been misting the "mulch" daily and it seems to like its new home. We have given it a small grasshopper, ants, crickets, spiders etc...what should we feed it when it comes inside for the winter and you can't find these bugs? Also, what happens to toads in the wild in the winter? I plan on bringing ours in the house.
Anonymous said
on 7/5/2007 If your pet toad is small, your should contain your toad in an aquarium with the minimum size of 10 gallons. If your pet toad is large, you should contain it in a large size plastic tub.
In the tub you should also contain half clean ground dirt and half dry, cut grass. Also a shoe box house where the toad can go inside and sleep. A water dish should be place in the tub level to the top of the dirt.
So make the toads new home more natural, you could add some twigs, a small log, or a live plant.
I suggest you do not use an outdoor pin if you want to keep your toad.
Anonymous said
on 8/8/2006 Toads mostly like to eat insects (bugs). They eat earth worms and meal worms. I feed my toads meal worms every day and they seem to like them. Toads also enjoy eating lightening bugs. Do not feed your toad maggots (fly larva). They tend to eat away inside of your toads body until the toad is dead. Toads will eat house flies.
Anonymous said
on 7/5/2007 When people report that their toads are leaning into their hand to be touched, they need to know that this is a defense mechanism. Toads secrete poison from behind their eyes and behind their heads to prevent predators from eating them. When they lean into you, they are trying prevent what they think is predatory action. The salts and oils from human hands actually hurt toads (as they absorb everything their skin touches). It is really best to touch your toad as little as possible.
Anonymous said
on 7/5/2007 You can use a guinea pig cage, it's like a fish tank,but it comes with a top with little holes in it.