Found Baby Toad

[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.

[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.