Pics of all my toads

[stickytoes]

Thanks for the info! I don't see many white/yellowish toads. Is that a common coloration of that southern toad species, or is it some kind of rare albino-like trait? That toad looks awesome! Let me know if you're ever successful in breeding them. I'd love to hear about it.

[SethD]

Thanks for the info! I don't see many white/yellowish toads. Is that a common coloration of that southern toad species, or is it some kind of rare albino-like trait? That toad looks awesome! Let me know if you're ever successful in breeding them. I'd love to hear about it.

No, it isn't very common. I have seen one other similar but with a bit more of a orange hue and it was sold on kingsnake for a lot of money if I recall. Yes it is similar to an albino. An albino in lacking in all pigment while an xanthic like this one is more of a partial albino that retains the yellow pigments. As you can see from the pic's this specimen also has normal eye color as apposed to red in a true albino. I don't know if I ever will succeed in breeding them or not, they aren't easy to breed without hormone injections, but I will keep trying and maybe I will get lucky or figure something out that works eventually.

[Kurt]

This may be a dumb question, but are you using a rain chamber?

[SethD]

This may be a dumb question, but are you using a rain chamber?

Certainly, You don't think I just put them in the water and hoped for the best do you. Using a rain chamber is very important in breeding for the vast majority of toad species if not all of them. That wasn't the issue I was having though, I have been able to get the male into amplexus through normal methods but haven't figured out how to induce females to develop and lay eggs. May need to tweak the cool down period or duration or it may be something else all together. One thing I think I have figured out though, it seems this species likes a larger body of water for breeding than I usually provide. They seem to get all jumpy and nervous in something the size of a ten gallon but settled right down when moved into a forty gallon.

[Kurt]

Certainly, You don't think I just put them in the water and hoped for the best do you.

I kind of thought you would use a rain chamber, but since what I saw in the photos was just the toads in a wet basin, I doubted it for a second. I was thinking about dart frog keepers and how they don't use rain chambers. So, I thought you may be thinking along those lines. No insult was meant. Just me not thinking it all the way through.

Using a rain chamber is very important in breeding for the vast majority of toad species if not all of them. That wasn't the issue I was having though, I have been able to get the male into amplexus through normal methods but haven't figured out how to induce females to develop and lay eggs.

I had the same problem when I tried to breed my tomato frogs. The male call would all night, making sleep for me difficult. I saw him grasp the female in amplexus several times over, but nothing ever came of it. After a rough night of trying to sleep I would check the rain chamber the next morning to discover nothing. After a while I gave up and reconfigured the chamber into a tadpole raising tank for the numerous red-eye tadpoles I have.

[SethD]

I kind of thought you would use a rain chamber, but since what I saw in the photos was just the toads in a wet basin, I doubted it for a second. I was thinking about dart frog keepers and how they don't use rain chambers. So, I thought you may be thinking along those lines. No insult was meant. Just me not thinking it all the way through.

They were placed in there after a session in the rain chamber. The puddle after the thunderstorm so to speak. Male started calling that evening and entered amplexus but the female wasn't ready.

I had the same problem when I tried to breed my tomato frogs. The male call would all night, making sleep for me difficult. I saw him grasp the female in amplexus several times over, but nothing ever came of it. After a rough night of trying to sleep I would check the rain chamber the next morning to discover nothing. After a while I gave up and reconfigured the chamber into a tadpole raising tank for the numerous red-eye tadpoles I have.

Exactly, it is all about trying to figure out what is needed to condition females properly and get them to lay eggs. In some species it isn't that hard but in others it is a real challenge without resorting to hormone injections.

[Malduroque]

Toads are great. At this point I just have 3 virdis and one regularis. The pic shows three of the four tracking a cricket.