Breeding pair of toads! :D

[Deku]

SOOO guess what? Today I went herping. Perfect day I tell ya! It was raining an hour before I decided to set out. So I went to this pond/stream near a park that nobody really goes to(except me-lol). I went into the water(it was cold but I have a tolerance for some harsh temperatures I guess..), I keep going to this sorta remote area that seemed partially enclosed and a tad warmer than the other waters.

I found on the shore of it two american toads! In amplexus! I know that both are opposite sexes; because the male is smaller and sorta makes the call when I poke his back(gently), and he's clinging on to the bigger toad. Who hasn't made any noise. I put them in a container in my backpack. They're still clinging onto each other(least the male is). So I set up a small 12x12x12 exo terra filled it up with 2inches deep of water. and a place for them to rest on land(large branch type ornament). The male is still clinging to the female. kinda looks like a rodeo. lol. SOOO I was wondering if this is good enough for them to mate and lay me some toad eggs? or if I need to do something else for them?

The male is olive brown. Sorta looks well pardon my manners.... but uhh from a distance I thought it was poop. :x The female is big! really big! like id say maybe 3.5-4.2inches? Iam making a guess because I don't want to disturb them just to size her up. The male looks to be 2.5-3.0 inches long.

I could put my other toad in there. I think its a she since it never calls or dismount calls when I pick it up. The female toad that is recently caught has some nice reddish brown colors. The female looks to have a rougher skin. Sorta scaley looking. The male had alot of wrts as I can see but the large paratoid glands don't look the same as the females. Wonder if its a type of subspecies?
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There is no gravel or sand in the tank. Temp is room temp. A low uvb light overhead. and I had the fan on the room to make it alittle cooler than it currently is.

[Deku]

Anyone got any tips?

[Deku]

I think they're laying eggs. I see a string of black dots comming out of the females butt. At first I thought it was poop. But I don't know. Iam turning the lights off and hoping for the best. There isn't that clear white goop around the the black stuff. Though idk yet.

[Deku]

OH GEEZ! The female is laying the eggs now! shes laying lots of em! like almost over a hundred(probably like a couple hundreds. Dx)

[Wormwood]

Yeah, those are eggs - they come in a long string. Hopefully the male is fertalizing it though after being stressed/removed from the pond.

My advice would be to return the taddies to the pond when they start to hatch from the eggs, toad tadpoles are terribly hard to raise.

To warm of water and they die, to many of them in an area and they die, to much food and they die. When they do become toadlets they are smaller then the tadpoles once formed, you'll be feeding them fruit flies (the only thing they'll eat at that size) and not all of them will get enough. They are absoutly voracious.

Good luck with whatever you do, but expect a 75%-85% kill rate if you keep them.

[Deku]

Yeah, those are eggs - they come in a long string. Hopefully the male is fertalizing it though after being stressed/removed from the pond.

My advice would be to return the taddies to the pond when they start to hatch from the eggs, toad tadpoles are terribly hard to raise.

To warm of water and they die, to many of them in an area and they die, to much food and they die. When they do become toadlets they are smaller then the tadpoles once formed, you'll be feeding them fruit flies (the only thing they'll eat at that size) and not all of them will get enough. They are absoutly voracious.

Good luck with whatever you do, but expect a 75%-85% kill rate if you keep them.

Umm I'ved kept tadpoles before. I have the space for the tads. One thing is... I didn't have anything to transfer the eggs with. Like I have where they go. But not the stuff to take em out. and I used partially my hands along with a scoop and took the eggs and put em in the new container.

hopefully they'll be okay. They look fine. Except some strands are seperated yet still have the dots inside and the slime. I was told to use an anti-fungal solution. I bought "pimafix" supposed to be natural. Is this okay to use for the eggs? The eggs are in a 3gallon container. It was from one of t hose huge cheese balls containers. lol I have a 3gallon filter in another tank thats been running in a fishtank full of guppies and minnows. Plus a mud turtle. Is it okay to use this filter in the tank? Its run by an airpump.

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P.s. if anything goes wrong. The male is still trying to go at it. So I just got the toad I'ved been keeping for a year since its toadlet form. I found it as a 1inch toadlet. Voracious feeder. She's extremely fat. She was fatter than the wild toad I caught in the stream. Though the wild toad was larger. Yet the one I'ved had is wider in girth. He's mounted her. The eggs are not attached to any ornament. Is that okay?