Quote Originally Posted by emandkel View Post
It is my understanding that fire bellied toads are cool-water toads and temperatures exceeding the mid 70's can be harmful. Mine are kept at room temperature (around 70) and they are active, go after their crickets like they are starving, and I have a male that calls and regularly tries to mate the others.
i would agree with you in a sense that they are cool water temperature tolerant. however while researching everyone has a different input on this subject, however most information out there states somewhere between 70s-80. room temperature would generally work and it did for many months for me with my toads. but when we started dropping below the 50s at night, my toads werent maintaining too well. so i gave them a heater, and they have begun to thrive again. when the normal temperature picks back up, that may be a different story.

it comes down to everyones personal preferences, my personal preference is... that mine are mantaining great with the 1-3 gallon sized heater (its very very tiny) and if i could get my little turtle (in a seperate encolusre of course) to not try to eat everything i put in his tank, he'd get one too! lol