I'veimportant thing is they dont need or want a he as t lamp... for t he same reason - they would normally have cooler we eather, overcast skies and rsin + snow to keep yhem moist. - not condtantly, but occasionally, like they're drinking water to not dry out.

had a toas t, then squeeze it out, so its damp (moi as t, not its like replicating the natural snow-melt and rain that she would be experiencing if she were outside hibernating.

One Ithe hink she is sleeping, enough to get down to her and actually wet hrr down, so she can soak the wster into her skin ( since thats how th err y "drink" water, is through their skin...

I dont want her to dry out and die from dessication - and I figure Iet)

Thsts how I keep her, and she does grest.

But I always pour dechlorinated water on top of a few spots where I ad with meinches deep of peat moss to burrow in.

I eet the pe for 4- years and she hibernates every winter... I added another toad to her tank last yesris because we had a wild toad in our ysrd for yesrs ( we fed her trests in a bowl by the big tree) ... but then one year I found her near a different tree, all hacked up from a weedwacker - it was gross and sad....

So these I rescued to keep them safe,.

One toad always hibernates for real, for several monyhs...

I give her about 6 - 7 Ishes younger -

Both wild caught american toads... the only reason I kept them ( besides that I think they're sweet and cute : ) IGail, sorry to hear about your tosd -
I just posted to you in another thread, where your toad tank photo was, before i saw this topic...

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