Meet Ukulele...

[yoshimi]

Long trek in a hot car, but I got her. she had some dirt on her chin so i thought at 1st might be a boy.. hence all the chin shots. she's already eaten an earthworm and some reptivited mealworms. briefly met Banjo, wish i could just put them together, but she's in banjo's old tank next to banjo's current tank. MUCH lighter and brighter than Banjo, which has me worried for my girl, but could be heat of the ride and stress... Banjo looks like a very dark brown compared to Ukulele. More reason to keep them apart I guess.
1st meeting, and the color difference was crazy: Warm bath for banjo and now it's almost hard to tell them apart, but Banjo is slightly smaller (but fatter) and has stripey legs.

[kueluck]

I'm so happy you got her!!!! Another bufo in a loving home.

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

I can't remember if banjo is male or female.But if banjo is female, darker coloration could be a sign that she is gravid with eggs if I'm not mistaken.
see this post.

[yoshimi]

I can't remember if banjo is male or female.But if banjo is female, darker coloration could be a sign that she is gravid with eggs if I'm not mistaken.
see this post.

Banjo is a girl, but I think she's only a year old or so, judging by how much she's grown in length since the end of sept. They're both about the same size (3in). And Ukulele is at least 3yrs old, likely older. It was a very hot long car ride into the city to get her and bring her back tho we had the AC on. I know that Banjo brightens when she's warm, or stressed. They're both in a room with AC now, so the color should even out, tho Uki's dirt is new and expanded with warm water so she may stay brighter longer.
Cannot wait to put them together.

*getting ahead of myself here. i got her with the intention of re-homing to a girl who expressed an interest in Banjo. if that doesn't work out tho, well... you know. i don't think i'll be heartbroken. the guy was really nice and obviously cared for his toad, but just couldn't keep her. no one came to rescue my baby bat, but i was able to go rescue a toad in need. somehow this evens things out in my head.

[Mentat]

Congrats on your new Toad !

[yoshimi]

I just realized I have no idea how old Ukulele is. He said he's had her for over 3 years, and she's shed many times, but never mentioned whether she'd grown. I'll have to ask. He found her hopping through a friend's yard in NH. She's really sweet about being handled, but he thought she was a boy all this time.

[TrymNois]

Nice toad you got there

[Heatheranne]

She's beautiful .

[AlanLynch]

Everyone is getting new toads! I had an empty ten gallon from my Leopard Frog for a while now and I was just about to get a male American Toad for my Female!

[yoshimi]

That time of year, maybe. Guy says he's had her for about 3.5yrs, found her in the Fall at night (just like how i found Banjo), but she grew maybe only 1/4in. So I'm going to guess her age to be about 4.5 to 5yrs.

I put them together yesterday so they could share a bowl of earthworms. Almost had a Lady and the Tramp spaghetti scene. She has a good appetite, but Banjo beat her to it. You can see her eye peeking out from under plant. They're both in big tank on opposite ends now. The twin of that plant is over in the other corner, so Banjo has her burrow back.

[maxQ]

Wow, she is gorgeous, enjoy her.

[yoshimi]

she's really excited to be here.

Took 10 tries to get this shot; they'd just split a calcium dipped worm. She popped right out of burrow when plate was placed in tank, but her half wasn't moving as much so i wiggled it from tongs in her face.

I don't think it's obvious in any of the pics, but she's missing a large portion of the little finger on her right hand. Looks healed and fine and doesn't bother her, so it just makes her extra awesome.

[Heatheranne]

Yay!
They have the cutest little faces! She looks happy .

[yoshimi]

I started this post yesterday then realized I'd already posted about her appetite and the biting of my fingers. When I brought it back just now, noticed that a word I wrote that is not vulgar was starred out. I was talking about the tilt of her head when she watched my fingers, trying to figure out if they were food. Used the same word in past tense one would use for a pistol that is ready to be fired. Eh so anyway, she tilts her head like a dog.

Her appetite is still crazy, and I feel bad that I can't give them a variety at the moment. No more dubia breeding, or anything breeding, and I've sprayed the exterior of house and garage with pesticide, so no outdoor collecting. Goes against my character but more than half of my stuff is in garage attic and earwigs just bug me out...
Had to purchase mealworms as a reptivite conveyance system. And earthworms as a staple still. Basically I have to stick with feeders that can hang in the fridge or won't run away and infest or get lost in the house if i dropped some. Banjo can't digest phoenix worms, and I think hornworms might be too big for 3in toads. Might have to order silkworms again. Butterworms for a treat? I dunno.

They're in basement, with a dehumidifier that I empty daily and turned up but can't get the humidity in their tank down past 70%. That was from >84%. Had to give them bigger water dishes cuz somehow they were filling up with dirt, sucking up all the water. All that splashing about was water-logging my dirt. I know it was Uki, but no one's fessing up. The bigger bowls are plastic which I don't like, but leaving them slightly above the soil line has kept some of the dirt out, without keeping out the toads.

post worms: this one was so cute to me, it's now my fb cover photo:

Let me state that the following is not something I condone, was just trying to show how she tries to eat me and everything else that moves. My hands were clean, fingernails short and filed. She's ok, and I feel bad.
Anyhoo... (the squeaking is the paper plate)
and this one is just feeding time, no fingers but i had to worm-block there's one more but I won't link to it cuz I'm making a vulgar gesture.

[kueluck]

I wonder if she goes after your finger thinking it's part of the worms she eats since you hand feed them to her. LOVE the videos and when they shoot their head up and tilt it........OH MY GOSH......it's the cutest thing EVER!!! Morph does that all the time, and every time he does it I say “ohhhhhhhh”. Toads are just to dang cute. FYI, you're not the only one to flip off a toad.

[yoshimi]

I wonder if she goes after your finger thinking it's part of the worms she eats since you hand feed them to her.

I think I'm perpetuating it, by hand feeding sometimes (she'll take from tongs but also go after the tongs so don't want her to hurt herself or try to eat a poop i'm plucking out with them (yes, i know, gross, but i wash them well)). I don't always feed her that way, try to use a plate, but it can keep her busy when Banjo is still studying her prey. She'll try to eat anything, like poor Banjo hopping by, or camera wrist strap, a fake leaf that moved cuz I breathed on it, anything. Of course she's thankfully not successful, but it's wacky.
Soooo many poops. I don't think they all belong to Uki, but I'm going to guess that most might. The differences between the 2 toads is striking. I'm hoping it's just that Banjo always had a steady amount of food after her abduction, plus calcium & vit supplements, while Uki's diet may have been more feast/famine.

[yoshimi]

I could photograph her for hours, til she tries to eat the camera:

[AlanLynch]

I dont see why some american toads stonachs are clear but some have black spots everywhere. Lola's stomach is hard to see because of all the black. Is she a male? I mean she never chirps her legs are thin and her throat looks light.

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

For american Eastern toads the most prominent feature of a male is the coloring of the throat.
But I don't know if the coloring happens after they have called as the throat looks black and blue almost like a bruise on human skin.

I don't know of they get nuptial pads and if they do are they a different color.

[yoshimi]

I dont see why some american toads stonachs are clear but some have black spots everywhere. Lola's stomach is hard to see because of all the black. Is she a male? I mean she never chirps her legs are thin and her throat looks light.

I think one sign of being a fowler's is no spots on the belly. You would have to ask Gail about Rufus' belly tho. Pretty sure if Lola's not chirping when you pick her up and doesn't have a greyish throat, she's female. Here's my male resident toad Hans "Bug-Eye" and his adorable release call:

oh, and Ukulele got "sick" last night. not sure what happened but she sort of spit up drool. she actually went into a corner to be by herself which worried the **** out of me. she was ok this morning, back to being out of control. such a relief. still don't know what happened tho.