Quote Originally Posted by AlanLynch View Post
I dunno... Its cool that the record for the longest living American Toad in captivity was 35 years but it was squished, so no telling how long toads can really live in captivity!
is that how that toad died? i read it was killed by accident but couldn't find anywhere what that accident was. how sad.

chlorine has been added to our drinking water since before your dad was born, assuming he's under 100yrs old... but levels may have increased. more pollution, more ****, more everything and the effectiveness of chlorine may mean there's more today than when he was a kid. or the build-up could just take years to have a negative effect, dunno. rain water, if you can collect enough of it to keep her in clean soaks, is a great idea.

that said, i've argued with my boyfriend (and won) about what he thinks is just crazy to buy for a "free" toad. but she's little and in my care, and there's not a whole lot she can do about it. so yeah, i end up shaking her food up in awful smelling vitamin and calcium powders, tripping over bottles of treated water, a fridge full of worms and plastic totes of breeding bugs that eat better than i do. a world of soil out there and i buy it by the brick. so she can burrow and ignore me unless she's hungry and frowning at me. but that's just her face, and i love it.