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Summary: Toads prefer dry climates, which changes the way to care for them. Care for toads with these expert tips from a reptile specialist in this free video about pet care.
"Hi, my name's Tim Cole. I'm with the Austin Reptile Service, and I've been keeping reptiles and amphibians for over forty years, and we're here to talk to you about keeping toads. Toads can be a little bit easier to keep than frogs, because they can be kept in a drier climate. Provide a water bowl for a toad, and most of them are happy. Of course, there are exceptions to that. A Suriname toad is aquatic, just like the African clawed frog, so they need an aquarium set up. Fire-belly toads are pretty happy with a fair amount of water also, but marine toads and our native toads, American toads, valor toads, spade-foot toads, all do very well in a dry terrarium set up. Keep in mind that all of these animals eat, for the most part, live insects, or even larger animals, depending on the size of the animal. Marine toads will eat beetles, and earthworms, and some of them will even eat small mammals. Gulf coast toads, which we have native here in the Austin area, feed very well on crickets and earthworms."
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