Quote Originally Posted by Wormwood View Post
American Toads are more active then you think, I have eight of them. They are only inactive if you over feed them and cramp them in a tank, if you supply them space they enjoy climbing around and digging new burrows. I have mine in a 150 gallon enclosure and they are out every night wandering the tank looking for crickets and heading back and forth to the water source (pond). Wild toads do not sit in one place at night, they move around and search for prey, finding backyard lights and other sources where bugs gather.

A 30 gallon tank is good for three adults, especially large females, anything more and your cramping them in. A 40 gallon breeder tank could fit four pretty well (with a smaller pool).
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If you have 5k eggs, throw half back into the water - there is no way you'll be able to hatch, keep alive even half of those tadpoles. It' far better giving them a chance out in the wild then letting them die in waves in a tank. There is no way 2,000 tadpoles will even make it in a small 29 gallon tank, if you think so your delusional.

If your doing all this for 5-6 little toadlets, phah... go online and order four from Florida and a dealer at $5 bucks a pop. It'll save you on the cost of fruit flies, and save hundreds if not thousands of little toadlets and tadpoles from death. At least in the wild they'd have a fighting chance, more become toadlets then you think. I remember setting 20 toadlets go in my yard as a child and the next spring I found 10 little toads under the wooden porch/deck of my parent's back yard.
Iam not saying I think that I would have 2k tadpoles in my tank. If I have too many tadpoles I'd put them in a seperate tank, and the ones I can't keep Id release. Then when they morph Id set them free and keep a few. I never said I'd keep every toad from the clutch. But I was going to keep atleast good amount of tadpoles to have a good chance of full metamorphosis. If I wanted to buy them, I'd had buy them a few years ago. I wanted to fully experience the tadpole cycle. It's not that bad as you may think.
I am already planning on when to release alot of the tadpoles. If there actually ends up being 2k tadpoles in my tank I would let go alot of them and keep 100tadpoles or so. Because not a great deal of them will make it into a toadlet. By then I would release a great deal of toadlets and keep a certain amount. If I need two tanks, that's fine. But if I recall I remember another user which is also moderator state that toads are not super active. Infact Ill bring up a few links from some sites that say they're not that active.

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.ed...mericanus.html



Ill also post links saying what you are saying:
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=...0-10WRiw&pli=1

http://www.uri.edu/cels/nrs/paton/LH_ea_toad.html

http://www.herpnet.net/Minnesota-Her...rogs&Itemid=63


I guess it really depends. But either way don't worry Ill just use an extra tank I have for the extra toads. :] Or I wonder if I could possibly buy a used 75g tank and use it and house 10toads in total in there.