Introducing Johnny

[deejayjohnnyblaze]

Hey there, I'm Johnny from Oregon. I am an avid toad lover and have two Western Toads (bufo boreas) that are about 18 months old.

[Animalnstinct]

Hi Johnny! Welcome to the forums, you will find lots of nice and helpful people around here! Looking forward to seeing you around!

[John]

Welcome to the forum Johnny.

[Ebony]

Hi there Johnny, welcome to the forum

[Paul Rust]

Welcome aboard.

[Jace]

Welcome, Johnny. I myself have a very young Western toad named Enoch. I would love to see some more pics of yours as well as your setup. I hope my little Enoch (he is my avator photo btw) grows up to be big like yours!!!

[deejayjohnnyblaze]

Welcome, Johnny. I myself have a very young Western toad named Enoch. I would love to see some more pics of yours as well as your setup. I hope my little Enoch (he is my avator photo btw) grows up to be big like yours!!!

Hi Jace

It's good to meet another western toad owner .
I got my western toads when they were very young too. I think you're gonna find that a little loving care they are very easy to raise. Here's another pic of my bigger of the two. I should have some pics up their cage soon

[Jace]

Very neat-thanks for sharing! I got Enoch when he was roughly the size of my pinky fingernail-he was almost stepped on at a local lake and was mistaken for a Pacific Chorus frog at first. He has grown quite a bit in the last couple of months and I hope he continues. What do you feed your toads and do you use heat or anything special in the setup? I included some more pics of Enoch just to show him off a bit!

[deejayjohnnyblaze]

Very neat-thanks for sharing! I got Enoch when he was roughly the size of my pinky fingernail-he was almost stepped on at a local lake and was mistaken for a Pacific Chorus frog at first. He has grown quite a bit in the last couple of months and I hope he continues. What do you feed your toads and do you use heat or anything special in the setup? I included some more pics of Enoch just to show him off a bit!

Ha ha yeah with his green coloring I can see his resemblance to a Pacific Chorus. I feed my toads a combination of earthworms and insects. On warm rainy nights I go outside and gather night-crawlers that have come out to escape the wet ground. My toads also love crickets, spiders and grubs. That's what's great about toads, they aren't picky. If it moves they'll go for it. When my toads were Enoch's size I fed them small meal worms which I later found out are supposedly not good for their digestive systems because of their hard shell-like exterior so maybe small earthworms would have been better. However Wallace and Gromit turned out fine despite my ignorant feeding practices.

I don't use any heat in the cage but it is kept in a basement that stays between 60 and 65 degrees Fahrenheit. They seem to like it cool but not too cold, but they can also tolerate somewhat warm temperature in the summer time too.

Their cage is pretty basic. It has dirt dug from a garden as the substrate, a plastic bowl for water and a little piece of doll house furniture with shelves on it that they can hide in lol.

Btw thanks for showing the photos of Enoch! He's lookin good

[Jace]

Thanks! I was worried he wasn't growing fast enough as I heard toads can get a decent size fairly quickly. However, he seems to be doing just fine so I am just going to let him do his own thing.

This is Enoch's setup...I plan on just making everything bigger as he grows as he seems to really enjoy it and the crickets stay next to the log piece making it easy for him to catch them.

[Kurt]

Welcome aboard.

[deejayjohnnyblaze]

Thanks! I was worried he wasn't growing fast enough as I heard toads can get a decent size fairly quickly. However, he seems to be doing just fine so I am just going to let him do his own thing.

This is Enoch's setup...I plan on just making everything bigger as he grows as he seems to really enjoy it and the crickets stay next to the log piece making it easy for him to catch them.