What is a healthy weight range for an American Toad?

[kueluck]

My understanding is that if a male is not present to fertilizes the eggs she can reabsorb them back into her body, or she may become egg-bound. I lost my Rosie last year from being egg-bound. But lets hope someone with more experience chimes in on this.

Love the pig pic!!

[Psychotic]

My big girl has always reabsorbed the eggs. I have a male now and I hope they will breed this year.

A female American Toad gets very very fat when she has eggs. They also may change a darker rust red in color.

Here is a picture of my girl when she is not full of eggs. The indoor lighting gave the darker pictures a yellow hugh that is not there in real life:





Here are some pictures I took just now for a comparison. She is very gravid!:





I did not weigh her last fall before brumation. But just now weighed and measured her. She is 4" snout to vent. She weighs 154 grams with all those eggs in her. Once she either lays them or absorbs them I will weigh her again. While gravid the sides of her belly hang over the sides of my hand lol!

[Psychotic]

Measured and weighed my male just for kicks. He is close to 3" and 45 grams.

[nicodimus22]

My big girl has always reabsorbed the eggs. I have a male now and I hope they will breed this year.

A female American Toad gets very very fat when she has eggs. They also may change a darker rust red in color.

Here is a picture of my girl when she is not full of eggs. The indoor lighting gave the darker pictures a yellow hugh that is not there in real life:





Here are some pictures I took just now for a comparison. She is very gravid!:





I did not weigh her last fall before brumation. But just now weighed and measured her. She is 4" snout to vent. She weighs 154 grams with all those eggs in her. Once she either lays them or absorbs them I will weigh her again. While gravid the sides of her belly hang over the sides of my hand lol!

What a beautiful toad! Do you know how old she is? Mine is coming up on 2 years, but she's still just over 2 inches long. I'd love to see her get over 3" eventually.

[Psychotic]

Nope. She was an adult when I got her and I've had her for 2 years. So, I don't know her actual age.

[yoshimi]

Loooove these toads pics. Including puffy Gwen, who looks pretty content for how puffed she is. Big Mamma is awesome; I love her face. I'd weigh Banjo, but I don't have a scale suitable for it. She's less than year old and 2.5in long, a whole inch and a quarter bigger than she was 5mnths ago. She's holding in a poo right now tho, unless she hid it, so any weighing I could do would be off. If I was a drug dealer, I'd be set with electric scales. Altho, if I'm selling dubia, I should maybe invest in a scale to make things easier. If I do get one, I'll weigh her.

[Psychotic]

I got a cheap postal scale just for the purpose of weighing my critters.

[yoshimi]

Was checking some out on ebay last night but I was outbid. They're still inexpensive, about $10.