Found Baby Toad

[Chelsea729]

So i found a baby toad, and was wondering if I can keep it on reti-carpet or should i just go ahead and put it on ecoEarth

[maxQ]

So i found a baby toad, and was wondering if I can keep it on reti-carpet or should i just go ahead and put it on ecoEarth

Hi Chelsea, would you happen to know what kind of Toad it is? If you can Id love to see a picture.

[Chelsea729]

Hi Chelsea, would you happen to know what kind of Toad it is? If you can Id love to see a picture.

I am almost 100% sure its just a regular american toad, I just sent my camera back to get fixed and i am unable to upload a picture right now

[DeltaElite121]

Eco earth makes it easier for them to stay moist and burrow if they desire.

[Mentat]

For an American or similar ground toad can follow this care article: Frog Forum - Toad Basics - Keeping ground-dwelling Toads. A care sheet for Bufo, Anaxyrus, Spea, Scaphiopus, Ollotis, Alytes, Pelobates . Insects should be same size as distance between Toad eyes and earthworms cut from pointy end same as toads body length. Dust food with CA/D3 2X and vitamins 1X weekly on different days with skip day in between. Good luck !

[Chelsea729]

Eco earth makes it easier for them to stay moist and burrow if they desire.

ok, and should i have a heat source? also, he has been freaking out since last night ! i do not want him to have a heart attack, is there anything i can do ?

[maxQ]

For an American or similar ground toad can follow this care article: Frog Forum - Toad Basics - Keeping ground-dwelling Toads. A care sheet for Bufo, Anaxyrus, Spea, Scaphiopus, Ollotis, Alytes, Pelobates . Insects should be same size as distance between Toad eyes and earthworms cut from pointy end same as toads body length. Dust food with CA/D3 2X and vitamins 1X weekly on different days with skip day in between. Good luck !

There ya go Chelsea......Carlos is clearly the man.

[Bombina Bob]

Repticarpet can be abrasive to its skin and dosent provide cover for the little guy.
Eco earth is probably the best option, you can also use paper towel.

[kueluck]

To keep your toad happy & healthy they need to be able to burrow enough so they are completely covered. I give mine up to 5 inch in some places. You don't want the soil to wet, they are not tropical and will prefer areas of some what drier substrate, make it slightly moist but not soggy. Like Carols said Calcium w/D3 alternating with a multi vitamin are extremely important for babies so they can grow into strong healthy adults. But my 2 cents on how often to dust feeders is every other day and skipping on the weekend. Ex: Mon, Wed, Fri multi-vitamin, Tue, Thur calcium w/D3 as babies, once adults, over 1 year you can cut back on this. Canadian night crawlers work best, but if they're to big & you don't want to cut them up, small crickets and small roaches work
great also, and don't forget the pill bugs, mine love these and great source of calcium too. If these things are to much for you to keep up with, then I think you need to let the toad go back into the wild. If you choose to keep this one, you may be in for many long years of upkeep on this little one. Not only habitat & food expenses, also medical expenses if illness or injuries happened.
It's not JUST a wild toad, it's something to be cherished and respected.

[Chelsea729]

To keep your toad happy & healthy they need to be able to burrow enough so they are completely covered. I give mine up to 5 inch in some places. You don't want the soil to wet, they are not tropical and will prefer areas of some what drier substrate, make it slightly moist but not soggy. Like Carols said Calcium w/D3 alternating with a multi vitamin are extremely important for babies so they can grow into strong healthy adults. But my 2 cents on how often to dust feeders is every other day and skipping on the weekend. Ex: Mon, Wed, Fri multi-vitamin, Tue, Thur calcium w/D3 as babies, once adults, over 1 year you can cut back on this. Canadian night crawlers work best, but if they're to big & you don't want to cut them up, small crickets and small roaches work
great also, and don't forget the pill bugs, mine love these and great source of calcium too. If these things are to much for you to keep up with, then I think you need to let the toad go back into the wild. If you choose to keep this one, you may be in for many long years of upkeep on this little one. Not only habitat & food expenses, also medical expenses if illness or injuries happened.
It's not JUST a wild toad, it's something to be cherished and respected.

Its like you dont believe I can handle it; I have a cane toad, african bullfrog, blue tongue skink and a bearded dragon . I just never had a baby toad ... I bought my african bullfrog when he was small but not this small. I keep pill bugs in all my enclosures as cleaner bugs and my animals love to eat them. And seeing as though I have other herpes I stay stocked up on vitamins, calcium, and feeders. Trust me, expenses aren't a problem. I take all my herpes to the vet once a year for check ups. I definitely wouldn't have kept him if i knew i wasnt going to be able to care for it.

[Chelsea729]

All my babies, as healthy as can be & a picture of my african bullfrog as a baby!

[maxQ]

OMG..you have awesome babies.........................

[Chelsea729]

OMG..you have awesome babies.........................

thank you, i really do try my best, i love all of them so much! i absolutely LOVE amphibians and reptiles!

[kueluck]

Sorry if I offended you, but I see you've had limited posts which usually means someone new to frogs/toads, and a lot of times it's someone who knows nothing about amphibians. I've see it way to much “I found a (fill in the blanks) and don't know how to take care of it”, and a few days later another post “my (fill in the blanks) died, what happened?” I get a little overprotective of native toads since they are my favorite non-fuzzy critter. I'm happy to read that this little one will be in capable hands. Would love to see some pics.

FYI - toads prefer it on the cooler side, I've never used a heat pad, but during the winter I use a 25 watt red light bulb.

[maxQ]

thank you, i really do try my best, i love all of them so much! i absolutely LOVE amphibians and reptiles!

YW, it shows and I do too. LOL

[Chelsea729]

Sorry if I offended you, but I see you've had limited posts which usually means someone new to frogs/toads, and a lot of times it's someone who knows nothing about amphibians. I've see it way to much “I found a (fill in the blanks) and don't know how to take care of it”, and a few days later another post “my (fill in the blanks) died, what happened?” I get a little overprotective of native toads since they are my favorite non-fuzzy critter. I'm happy to read that this little one will be in capable hands. Would love to see some pics.

FYI - toads prefer it on the cooler side, I've never used a heat pad, but during the winter I use a 25 watt red light bulb.

It's ok, I just wanted to be absolutely sure ... I have never had a herp pass on me, I always try to get as many opinions as possible ... and i totally know what you mean, Im in school now getting a degree in wildlife biology; so many people take advantage of wildlife and they don't understand the amount of damage they cause

I have him/her in a long critter keeper, not too long because I want him/her to be able to find his food ... I just sent my camera back to the shop to get fixed, and my phone is old lol, when one of my friends come and visit i will have them take a picture.

I added pill bugs to his enclosure last night, and just added some pinhead crickets a few hours ago, Im not really sure if he's eating though -- he was freaking out a lot last night so I covered the sides and back of the critter keeper with dark construction paper and left the front view uncovered, but this morning he was still freaking out a bit so I also covered the front. If I see tonight he hasn't consumed any food, Im going to let him go.

[Psychotic]

Not being able to see the little one it is hard to know what size you mean when you say little.

When my babies morphed I fed them springtails and other tiny bugs I caught with a net in the tall grass of my field (I live on a farm).
Then I fed them flightless fruit flies.
Now that they are about big enough to fit on a nickle, I feed them small isopods, baby roaches, and pin head crickets.

I like keeping my babies on paper towel and I keep a towel over top the entire container because the little ones do freak out easily. But being toads, once they know you are the food source, it's very likely they will calm right down and expect food every time they see you.

[Chelsea729]

Not being able to see the little one it is hard to know what size you mean when you say little.

When my babies morphed I fed them springtails and other tiny bugs I caught with a net in the tall grass of my field (I live on a farm).
Then I fed them flightless fruit flies.
Now that they are about big enough to fit on a nickle, I feed them small isopods, baby roaches, and pin head crickets.

I like keeping my babies on paper towel and I keep a towel over top the entire container because the little ones do freak out easily. But being toads, once they know you are the food source, it's very likely they will calm right down and expect food every time they see you.

I covered his whole enclosure, and I check on him every couple hours, I kinda measured him today, he is 2/3 of an inch, he is big enough to fit on a nickle.

I am keeping small pill bugs in his enclosure and I gave him a few pin head crickets yesterday.

Every time i do check on him he does freak out. I do believe he is eating. He pooped yesterday and I noticed there wasn't as many pill bugs. And with the crickets, he has one left, but two died that i removed from his enclosure and I through in 7, I only seen one left.

I do know they can escape because I saw one crawling on my shoe. But he does look healthy, and fat.

Do you just order flightless fruit flies online?

[kueluck]

You can order the flies online if your local pet store doesn't have any healthy cultures, but at that size you can feed pinhead crickets or xtra small roaches. I like this place for flies, and it's just down the road from you Buy Flightless Fruit Flies, Fruit Fly Cultures and Supplies. I get the flies here when I have newly morphed frogs/toads.