Separating toadlets for feedings?

[LilyPad]

Yeah, if the size gets too far, I will have to separate them completely. They are hungry little buggers and I could see them trying to take a chomp at each other.

[nicodimus22]

Oh, also on the size thing, females toads ARE supposed to be larger. I don't know for sure that it means your smaller ones are males though, they could just be at slightly different stages of growth.

Also, when did you get spring peepers? I totally missed it. Are they going to sing for you eventually?

[LilyPad]

I hope they sing!! They are soooo itty bitty now though, like the size of my fingernail. I found them while I was on vacation and decided to bring a few home (we must have seen HUNDREDS) They are such pretty little frogs.

[Greg M]

I always feed my guys separately, in a separate container. This way I can monitor their eating and make sure the more greedy toads don't get all the food. My guys are used to this, so it doesn't seem to stress them at all.

My experience with Woodhouse's toads suggests that early size differences don't always carry through to adulthood and don't reflect the gender of the toad. My smallest toadlet is now my largest toad. She just had her growth spurt later than the others. All of my toads have hit a major growth spurt at some point in their development, some early and some late, and it is this growth period that really determines their final size. I don't have a huge sample size to go from, but anecdotally, it seems that the males have their growth spurt earlier and mature (reach more or less mature size) considerably earlier than the females. I believe the early maturation of males is borne out by field studies (on this species).