Good feeders for toads and frogs? Superworms? Nightcrawlers?

[ToadStool]

They look bold in the wild and can be in captivity, but the stress of being confined and taken from the wild can sometimes be too much. I'd never buy a WC again, just not worth it. Pacmans are probably your best bet. Youre best raising them to start with on crickets, then move up to superworms, earthworms and pink
mice. As adults you only need to feed them once a week or less, so you can rotate with different foods, so you don't always have to keep crickets and roaches in your house, just once a month or so then.

So if people want them as pets.. why don't they just take the eggs, raise them in captivity and then breed them in captivity? Why don't they breed toads in captivity the same way they breed frogs?

By the way, why is the forum sort of dead? Also, are there toads that have been sold accurately as captive bred? I'd personally like to start captive breeding toads-- but I sadly don't have the facilities for it or the money for such a large operation.

I just think it would be a good idea, especially if they can make it to have color morphs. lol Could you imagine toad color morphs? Albinos, Black with white underbelly, completely black (like a lump of coal), green, reds, yellow. Etc. I dont know how color morphs go about, but it sounds like an interesting business.

Futhermore how much do fecal exams, and treatment would cost for toads? My dog got a fecal done and it was 15-20bucks for it.

[jasonm96]

cane toads are largely invasive, so collecting them is probably better than breeding more, as there's enough already and not everyone probably fancies them, more of an acquired taste. They also produce very large quantities of offspring, so there would have to be a large market for cane toads. The usual captive bred animals like pacmans, red eyes, whites tree frogs, dart frogs, are pretty and colourful, so attractive to most people and dominate the market. A few toads are bred in captivity, such as yellow spotted climbing toads, bumblebee walking toads, fire bellied toads, etc. You even get albino and blue fire bellied toad morphs, but yes I'd like to see a bright red or blue or multicoloured cane toad - that would be awesome. I guess the rococo toads are that, with some colours but still dull in appearance. Most likely any toad sold under captive bred probably is and has came from one of the several large breeding facilities in a country. Fecal cost depends, i paid £50 for mine and then £10 for meds. I haven't owned a dog myself so can't compare the bills, it's probably not much different, though.

[ToadStool]

cane toads are largely invasive, so collecting them is probably better than breeding more, as there's enough already and not everyone probably fancies them, more of an acquired taste. They also produce very large quantities of offspring, so there would have to be a large market for cane toads. The usual captive bred animals like pacmans, red eyes, whites tree frogs, dart frogs, are pretty and colourful, so attractive to most people and dominate the market. A few toads are bred in captivity, such as yellow spotted climbing toads, bumblebee walking toads, fire bellied toads, etc. You even get albino and blue fire bellied toad morphs, but yes I'd like to see a bright red or blue or multicoloured cane toad - that would be awesome. I guess the rococo toads are that, with some colours but still dull in appearance. Most likely any toad sold under captive bred probably is and has came from one of the several large breeding facilities in a country. Fecal cost depends, i paid £50 for mine and then £10 for meds. I haven't owned a dog myself so can't compare the bills, it's probably not much different, though.

Well of course they're invasive, and they produce a large mass of offspring.. but one could cull the eggs to leave about less than 1/4 (I think they produce thousands- so a few hundreds is okay). I wonder if there's a way to selective breed them to the point they come in other colors, or if they can do that thing that messes with the eggs... Probably would upset PETA people-- but I never really cared for PETA or what they thought... considering they like to go extreme.

I just think they should grab suriname cane toads, and then breed those in captivity and reproduce the conditions in suriname.

The only problem I have with cane toads is they're deadly. If -SOMEHOW- the cage broke or it got lose and my dog (Which it would) decided to make the toad a chew toy..... She would die within seconds-- especially as she's a chihuahua mix and only weighs 12 pounds. Rococo toads are a different species of toad. They're not cane toads. They have four paratoid glands. I dont like the toads they breed. I also like the brown colors of the cane toads.


You really gotta admire cane toads. They're almost as bad as cockroaches in the terms of doing anything to survive, strong to survive.