toad aficionado here!!

[deranged chipmunk]

Leaf litter should help though toads often like to dig.

see that? you can tell i am not a toad guy lol

[gut]

Hadn't even considered leaf litter! It could look very nice. Thank you for the advice. He doesn't seem like much of a burrower, in fact he likes to perch on the highest points of his tank? Maybe he's just an odd duck.

@Elly and yeah thats my tumblr, I feel silly for not joining this forum earlier, there's so much I can learn here!!

[elly]

@gut: aww, that one's really great! And maybe he thinks he's a tree frog?

@deranged chipmunk: I only know that from watching the Woodhouse? toads in my backyard, heh. They don't dig a lot but they like to have their little toad holes.

[pachoulzy]

hi! i'm just starting to read into american toads, so i'd love to learn more from you! i used to love collecting them when i was a small child, they're amazing little creatures. now i'm looking into keeping one as a pet, and i know they're quite a bit different from my chubby little pacman froggies. (:

anywho, welcome to the forum!

[gut]

American toads make AWESOME pets, their care is incredibly easy and they have a lot of personality. They don't need supplemental heat [unless your house is very cold of course] only a little daily misting and any lighting you feel like providing. I raised Moony up from a tiny, nickel-sized toadlet I found in the street one night. American toads adapt to a cushy indoor life incredibly well, she was eating from my hands after a day!! I think its because they're naturally unafraid of predators. The only downsides I can think of is that no one breeds them so you have to resort to wild caught most of the time [best to gather them in the spring and early summer, when there's thousands of tiny toadlets and the majority of them will not survive, so its much less harmful than removing one old enough to breed], you can't really take them to a vet due to it not being, yknow, strictly legal to keep them in all states [but the cops haven't busted down my door yet], and the males WILL croak. One of my friends has a male who calls every single night.
Aside from that toads are wonderful pets!! They don't do much but if you keep pacmans than thats probably something you're used to by now hehehe