Couch's Spadefoot Toad help

[Nick02]

some pics of the current set-up

[Kurt]

Cute, little guys! Couch's are cool, wouldn't mind having some myself.

I would switch them over to a ground coconut substrate and provide them with a shallow water bowl. Also do not use mealworms as a staple diet. They are too high in chitin and chitin can possibly cause bowel impactions. Keep the diet as varied as possible. Since most feeder insects are not nutritionally complete, you must dust their dinner with vitamin/calcium supplements.

[Nick02]

Thank you! That was so helpful!

[Kurt]

You're welcome.

[John]

Welcome to the site Nick. You could consider culturing Drosophila hydei - they are large fruitflies and will make an easier food to provide for the toads until they are more than twice their current size. Just make sure you get a good fruitfly medium because hydei aren't as forgiving of cheap medium as Drosophila melanogaster.

Kurt's advice is sound. Make sure you use a vitamin/mineral supplement regularly, and also a calcium supplement occasionally.

And finally, if you ever want to find homes for some of these, I would give my right arm for a couple .

[Ebony]

Hi Nick, welcome. Your toads are so cute. Its so good you grabbed these little Guys, You saved their lives.