Am I feeding my toad right?

[Poly]

Do you feed her on the floor? Or in a separate container? I suggest a container or in the tank.

Yes, I feed her on the floor, if I put her in a seperate tank, she focuses more on trying to escape than eating, on the floor she's free to hop around and stalk her food.

John; I haven't been able to snap off a photo yet, it seems as though, when the toad has nothing in it's stomach, it's sides are "flat" but after a meal, they bulge out, it looks identical to a tomato frog, after the toad eats a meal. My girlfriend (she loooves amphibians like me), looked at the toad and asked me, honest to god this is what she asked "What's wrong with your tomato frog, there normally red, where'd you get a brown one?"... Hahaha!!! I then proceded to tell her the "meal = bulging" theory... oh, and that it's an american toad... not a tomato frog... (She was like; ...)

Amy; Yes, I found out about the cut-up earth worms... I cut one in half, dropped it on the floor in front of the toad, and it went crazy until it finally got it in it's mouth, then it was battling to keep it in it's mouth for 30 seconds or so... I think I just found a great, readily available (at any bait store) winter food!

~Royce

[RABBIT 1]

I would love to be able and own a white three frog, but i need to get another tank look where cheaper than new....

[nicodimus22]

I feed my toad in a bowl on the table. It keeps the crickets relatively close to her until she can get them. This is a good thing for a toad that misses 10-15 times before getting the tongue placement right. Terrible aim, that one.

[victorsgrace]

Hi.

I've fed my boys small slugs before - they love them and snatch them up (only Louis has troubles once in a while, but he's notoriously bad at snatching earthworms, slugs - anything not a bug lol). So slugs can do just not too big. When I feed my two guys earthworms, I pick them up, place them on our floor (wood) and they then stalk the earthworms, until caught. This is easier for me, since the earthworms quickly burrow, if I let them loose in the tank, and they guys get bits of dirt in their mouth when snatching them, which makes them spit it out and not wanting to take the worm. (we never use any chemicals to clean our floor).

Otherwise, they are fed slugs from my finger or tropical bench chunks or crickets in a bowl, in the tank.