Toads barking at night

[s6t6nic6l]

I have realised that at least two out of my three FBTs are male due to their barking. This isn't a problem except that they like to do it until 3am! I was reading on the internet a bit and saw that perhaps turning the lights on earlier in the day and turning them off earlier at night could make them calm down on the barking a bit later in the day. Would this work? Are there any other methods that might help with this?

Thanks!

why would anybody undertake such methods to quell anything the toads would do as a natural way to behave. it's the sort of advice that will do more harm to the welfare of the toads you now have the responsibility of. these toad owners who give out such harmful drivel should not even be "caring for" any toads in their keep.

the toads will, and should, "bark" anytime they feel, be it day or night.

[BeansFBT]

Thank you for your comment. I personally find this to be no different than changing the light cycle and lowering the temperature to get the toads into mating "season," which is common practice from what I have read. I would simply be changing the time that they think is "daytime" to an earlier time in the actual day. The question was if changing the light cycle to earlier in the day would lessen their noises at night, not if I could stop them from making noise all together.

Please do feel free to inform me on exactly how this would be harmful to my toads and I will gladly refrain from doing it. The toads' health and comfort is my first concern, but my ability to sleep comes in a close second.

[firebellygirl]

Perhaps you can move them to a different part of the house. My male barked non stop for about a week while the female was laying her eggs. usually he barks softly, but not that week. I am glad that he has stopped barking so loudly! I have them set up in my formal livingroom and I can't hear them from my bedroom, but that night I slept on the couch in the same room and I put my earphones in and listened to music to fall asleep. I don't know if the light thing would make any difference. Maybe find someone that would take your males and just have females. They make no noise.

[firebellygirl]

In my experience, they do not call nearly as much in a terrestial setup (water bowl) as they do in a more aquatic setup. I have had them both ways and I personally think they like the more aquatic setup. How many inches of water do you have? Perhaps lowing the depth would help. With mine it seems that the more water depth the more they call because they think it's breeding season.

[BeansFBT]

Unfortunately moving the tank is not an option as I live in a basement suite with a very unusual configuration and there are no other suitable place to put it. I don't really feel like getting rid of my males either. I actually lucked out and found an electronic timer at the thrift store near my work for $2 so I figured I'd get it and give it a shot. At the very least it'll turn the light on before I even get up to go to work, which I think will give them a more natural daytime light period.

As far as water level goes... I actually just finished reconfiguring my tank to have MORE water. :P Before it was a fairly large landmass and a fairly deep but small area of water, perhaps 2/3 land/water ratio. I just changed it to the left side and rear have land and the front portion is open leading to a "shore" area to the right and up to the land at the back. I definitely miss all the green from before, but I think the toads will be much happier with this set up.

They were more or less silent last night, we'll see if this keeps up! Thanks for the input!

[BeansFBT]

I figured I'd post a picture of my new set up while I was at it. It's not the greatest picture ever, but it gives an idea. It's not actually that yellow and not as crazy bright as it looks... Damn cameras!

[UncleChester]

I don't see any harm at all in changing their daytime cycle. Do it gradually if possible though and let us know if it works!