fire belly toads dying

[MantisMan]

was it pink when he swallowed it? if not it may be from blood
if he doesnt want to eat for a while it may mean the pebble scratched him inside and he's trying to heal his organs
i hope he recovers...

[kroberts009]

was it pink when he swallowed it? if not it may be from blood
if he doesnt want to eat for a while it may mean the pebble scratched him inside and he's trying to heal his organs
i hope he recovers...

thanks for checking, the rock he swallowed was pink. still happily eating crickets. going to keep an eye on him for at least another week, before i can rest comfortably about being in the clear.

[Hoppity100]

I'm glad to know he is ok. Now if I could just get mine to like earthworms! They want crickets and the crickets are hard to keep and one ended up in my car. I don't know how he could have escaped the pet store bag.

[kroberts009]

I'm glad to know he is ok. Now if I could just get mine to like earthworms! They want crickets and the crickets are hard to keep and one ended up in my car. I don't know how he could have escaped the pet store bag.

lol in your car is definitely a special treat! how do you keep your crickets? you know, i dont know if im "properly" keeping my crickets, but they seem to manage just fine and we have perfectly healthy frogs (other than rock mishaps =/ ). we will buy some and they last for weeks and weeks with few random deaths (other than by frog... lol) basically i went from one of those small storage tote containers to a tall plastic kitchen container (small crickets) and about a foot to a foot and a half tall container. with an open lid. just threw in the cardboard. for water, i wet paper towel balls every other day (they dry out faster in the open air container) and for food, i mix anything from cereal (oats types) to carrots to lol banana chips.. but i hear they are partial to parsley. and from what i gather, will eat just about anything they can... nothing quite like caring for the food that feeds your little friends

[Hoppity100]

Yeah, just think, I almost went thru an intersection because of it (laughing). Like an officer would believe me if I said I had a cricket in the car as he writes me a ticket! I keep mine in a good sized clear plastic tote, screen lid, by a lamp, had cotton balls that were wet, sprinkled oatmeal in bottom, put in small piece raw potato and small piece of apple. They had cardboard to hide in, but those little suckers died (not all, just a few out of 20). But, they were kept as I read about. Your idea sounds alot better! A tall wastebasket. If I thought mine wanted better food like tacos or spagetti, I would offer that LOL. But, most of them must have liked the food. I bought wax worms at the store, got home, they were all dead. Went back and exchanged them and when I bought them I asked if they were fresh (had no date) and was told they were. I should have known the young guy working may not know to check them? Now when I buy any worms, I open like 5 containers first. But, the frogs are cute friends!

[kroberts009]

Yeah, just think, I almost went thru an intersection because of it (laughing). Like an officer would believe me if I said I had a cricket in the car as he writes me a ticket! I keep mine in a good sized clear plastic tote, screen lid, by a lamp, had cotton balls that were wet, sprinkled oatmeal in bottom, put in small piece raw potato and small piece of apple. They had cardboard to hide in, but those little suckers died (not all, just a few out of 20). But, they were kept as I read about. Your idea sounds alot better! A tall wastebasket. If I thought mine wanted better food like tacos or spagetti, I would offer that LOL. But, most of them must have liked the food. I bought wax worms at the store, got home, they were all dead. Went back and exchanged them and when I bought them I asked if they were fresh (had no date) and was told they were. I should have known the young guy working may not know to check them? Now when I buy any worms, I open like 5 containers first. But, the frogs are cute friends!

that doesnt surprise me about the worms... going to be heading into one of my local petsmarts over the weekend to see what else they have available. i always check the containers and make them get my crickets out of the large bin, with it being so hot out here every now and then all the crickets in the premade packages die, before purchased. i dont know if you shop at petsmart, but if you sign up online. they email me coupons for free crickets or discounts on worms like every two weeks! just an idea

[Hoppity100]

Oh, thanks for letting me know about email thru petsmart with coupons. I bought my FBT's there but the dead worms came from pet supplies plus. Same store that would not give their hamsters a wheel. I questioned them about this at least a year or so ago. Got all kinds of ridiculous excuses. Recently I noticed they have given hamsters each a wheel, but I had to wait over a year for this. I noticed wheels after I emailed them with my list of complaints. I must have gotten my point across! Didn't mean to get off topic, but I would always check worms, too, as I learned the first time I bought some. If I could just get my toads to try earthworms. They seem like everything else but earthworms. I've had a little trouble keeping crickets so I am hoping mine will eat assorted worms. Its unpleasant for me to have to cut a large earthworm and hope they eat it before it stops moving.

[Hoppity100]

I forgot to ask where you are located as you said it was hot. I'm between Ohio and Michigan, ok like on the border. It is Fall now with noticeable weather changes, wonder if we'll have snow this year, last year was a warm, dry winter. I still have a jug of salt that I never needed from last year. Also wanted to ask: is there a correct way to offer toads an earthworm? I think they're not eating one because the worms are so big. I tried cutting them, yuck, and worms still were not appealing to them. Any tips are appreciated, thanks.