My Care Guide for Firebelly Toads!!!

[MantisMan]

...Now that i think about it iv had 5 FBTs and only 1 of them is a female. Great job Alex ur guide is really thorough

thanx
i've had 12 adults and only 2 have been female, not sure on the hundreds of babies moaper produced though...

[UncleChester]

thanx
i've had 12 adults and only 2 have been female, not sure on the hundreds of babies moaper produced though...

So the "90% of the population is male" is an anecdotal observation of the adults you've obtained? Likely being wild caught, this wouldn't be too surprising.

I think a 90% male claim on a wild population or birth rate would be rather suprising. A near even split was observed in birth rates in The Sex of Triploids and Gynogenetic Diploids in Bombina orientalis (a 1980 paper, full pdf is available at the link, near 50/50 split of sexes in their control group).

[MantisMan]

yeah idk if it's that bad but i read somewhere the male to female ratio can be AS BAD AS 10:1 which is 90%
anyways i'll have to add that toadlets should not be housed at high densities for 2 reasons
1: if 1 gets an infection it'll spread fast
2: they'll bully each other out of food and the smaller, weaker ones starve or get cannibalized

[MantisMan]

bump and i will be making even further improvements to this guide with the coming spawning season, especially talking abt new methods and a few important things i left out of the breeding section