Quote Originally Posted by Wormwood View Post
I wouldn't know to be honest, I've never kept wild toad eggs. I remember keeping toad taddies as a kid and the majority died, minus the ones that did fully mature and that I released into the yard.

Sorry to be a buzz kill, just let me know how many die. Be pepared to shell out 50-60 bucks a week for fruit flies.

A 3 gallon bin won't be large enough for 100-300 tadpoles. Taddies do fine in semi-stagnet water, so make sure the pump isn't filtering to much out of the water, or moving around the water to much. I've never seen toads lay eggs in moving water.
Eggs have been moved to a 29gallon aquarium that was set up months ago. It had fish in it but I moved the fish temporarily. As for fruit flies---I'm going to culture them, and I think a fellow member is going to help provide me with a jump start culture to get a whole culture of them running. As for crickets---I'm going to invest on breeding them. Either that or find another suitable food source for larger toads(2inches and up)
There's over 5k worth of eggs. That will produce me alot of tadpoles. A lot of tadpoles will also mean that there are higher chances of getting more toadlets. When I succesfully grow the toadlets into a few months in there I will release about a great majority of them and keep atleast 5-61inch toadlets. Just to make sure that I get atleast a couple adults. By the time I get a breeding colony of insects I should have enough to keep up with this upgrade on the hobby. I have a 30gallon(long) already premade. Toads are generally inactive so for a total of 6-7 toads that should be okay. If that's not enough I may end up getting a larger enclosure(no problem) and sell that tank to a friend or something. I was eventually going to get a exo terra terrarium thats 36inches long 24(or 18inches) wide, 24(or 18inches) tall. lol.


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P.s. Alot of them will die regardless if they are kept indoors or outdoors. Outdoors they succumb to harsh conditions like overcrowding, bad water quality(so stagnant water isn't the best but the cleanest water isn't the best either.It should be fairly clean I assume. Where there's not alot of ammonia build up or nitrites.) Even toadlets in the norm not all will survive even if everything is perfect. Indoors or outdoors.
Outdoors they can also be preyed upon. Which is what happens. So in reality I will have more toadlets than there would if they were outdoors. Keeping in mind the toadlets would be from ONE single batch of eggs. On contrast to the DOZENS AND DOZENS of batches of eggs in the wild.

they produce many eggs because they know that not all will make it to adulthood. Just like a sea turtle.

Thanks for the warning though. Iam prepared to scoop out deads daily. Iam going to be doing weekly water changes as well.