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Some short answers since no one else is answering.
I would try a library or a book store and get yourself one of those great amphibian guides in the guide section. Most have the scientific names of most species; granted they won't have every little sub species in them but it's the closest you'll get I bet without talking to some zoologist that focuses on amphibian study.
Fruit flies, mites, springtails. If you don't want them let the substrate dry out, be it sand or coco fibers. You don't need wet, or even moist substrate to make most toad species happy. All of my toads live in dry tanks with a water source I change daily, or at least filter with some kind of pump system. IMO it gets the toads out and moving about, having to go to the water source for hydration. Even fire belly toads do fine with a dry side of the tank and a sectioned off water side.
I've got good and bad experiences ordering bugs online. I'd rather drop twenty bucks for 500 super worms online though then spend fifty at some pet store, even if some die in the process of shipping. Same goes with crickets and most other feeders.
From my experience most toads are wild caught since toads don't bring much profit in pet trade. The ones that do are the massive ones like Rocco and Suraname toads and these require MASSIVE ammounts of food to get to the size where they are worth the 80-100 bucks some venders charge them. Toad tadpoles are surprisingly fragile as well. That's why they are most or less wild caught. Your information on breeding toads will be limited because of this. I can't even give you any advice there because in all my years of keeping toads I've never had them sucessfully mate in captivitiy.
Good luck.
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