Blind or Partially Blind Gulf Coast Toad Care?

[Sapphire195]

Thank you! I will see if we can go get some night crawlers. I saw them at the store but I thought that they were too big. I guess I'll have to chop them up. I did try pressing it against his mouth. Worms and crickets. He lowers his head and closes his eyes.
I am watching my friend's turtle, so I have some calcium supplements for reptiles and amphibians. I will have to look for multi-vitamins. Can human multi-vitamins be used, possibly? I know we have some of the human kind.

The pedialyte, it should be flavorless, yes? Do I give it to him in syringe through the mouth, or just let him soak in it? We are going to the grocery today, so I'll keep an eye out for that.

Fortunately, aside from an ADF in my 5 gallon tank, I have no other amphibians, and I always wash my hands and use hand sanitizer when I feed or touch the toad.

[monster]

Hi, i dont think human vitamins would be safe for your frog to consume, Rep-Cal makes a pretty good multivitamin. For the pedialyte you want him to soak in it, you want to make it at 1;10 ratio. So for every ten oz's of water add 1 oz of pedialyte, and ya you want it to be flavorless.

[Sapphire195]

Okay, thanks. We got the clear, flavorless pedialyte today. I'm about to feed him and soak him now.

[Sapphire195]

I fed him a cricket coated with calcium powder and soaked him for one hour, then rinsed the pedialyte off of him.

Should I continue with this pedialyte/water soaking daily? Weekly? I'll try to get some pictures of him soon. My computer's photo storage isn't working, but I can save some from my phone tomorrow I hope.

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Hi! Sounds like you're doing great so far. For right now try doing it twice a week, so that it doesn't stress him out and that the afflicted eyes may have a chance to heal. If he is truly blind, they you will have to keep him, as it will be impossible for him to survive in the wild without his main detection sense. Also you won't be able to upload photos directly to frog forum, as it was hacked a while ago and we lost the ability to like posts and to upload photos directly to the site. Try using imgur or photobucket to upload the photos and then linking said photos here

[Sapphire195]

Thank you. Here are the pictures of him.

Good eye.


Bad eye.


Hands



Size




Is there any way to tell what gender it is? Also, I have IDed him/her properly as a Gulf Coast Toad, correct? As for his 'good' eye, does anyone know why it won't open all the way?



I named it Budge. I fed it two worms today. One with calcium and one without. He/she is making progress. I put the worm just a bit in its mouth and it swallowed it by forcing it into its mouth with its hands.

[LilyPad]

I am not familiar with this species of toad, but usually the best way to ID is whether or not they call. Your guy is teeny yet though, so that might take some time. It looks like it suffered some sort of injury and neither of the eyes are functioning properly. I am not sure what would have caused it though It is good to see him getting excited about food. I think he should be happy living indoors with someone to feed him