fire belly toads dying

[Sunshine]

Are you using coco husk or coco fiber? Coco husk can cause impaction if the toads accidentally ingest some while feeding. Are you gut loading and dusting the crickets with vitamins and calcium? Is the water dechlorinated? What are your temps? Can you post pics of the toad and the tank?

[lizarddude]

it is eco earth, so its like little granuals of coconut husk. we gut load the crickets with the powder food stuff and calcium jell, but do not dust. the water is dechlorinated. the water heater is the only source of heat and the water is about 65 or 70 degrees. i will check it tommorow with the temperature probe. i will also upload pictures tommorow

[MantisMan]

ok i would just use good old spaghmum moss or peat moss over gravel or a completely aquatic setup with a log or rock for land
and i would use a lamp for heat, remove the water heater
get a lamp of some sort and put it over the tank with a 40 or 60 watt bulb
they will be much happier that way

[lizarddude]

what about the problem with the crickets going into the spaghnum? also i only have one now. one of them died from swallowing a small stone so i switched to coco fiber, and then this one was fine for a while but then he started deteriorating

[FriedrichsFrogs]

Alex made a good point about where your buying from. The tank setup could be tweaked but just to be absolutely sure i would change your FBT source, thats just too odd that all of your guys r dying off shortly after being purchased.

[lizarddude]

they arent dying off shortly after being purchased though. its been about a year and a half since i got this one

[FriedrichsFrogs]

oohhh...well in that case a tank tweak might suffice