Looking for cane or rococo toads. C.B.

[Deku]

my two adult surinam cane toads have only been here about 12 days and one eats eart worms from my hand the other wont take from the hand yet but as quick as i drop food in front of her she eats it, these are wc and had a hell of a jorney suriname, america, germany, then england, and they fed straight away so i would imagine another few months i will have no probs with hand feeding, the good thing is there just so greedy! lol, were as my normal cane toad hides only comes out at night and will probaly never feed from my hands, here is a couple of pics of the big girls,you could understand any toad being skittish at an expo!


mavis is in the top photo sitting out side her house watching whats going on she is very nosey, and greedy bettys in the bath if you new how much she ate you would no why i call her greedy betty,

cheers spencer..................

sigh... I may have to settle for the regular cane toads then. I don't wanna buy a full grown suriname in fear it maybe actually a dud and be a regular florida cane toad.

Wouldn't space and diet also play a role on their size? So a wild caught floridian one could get that big if it was fed a heavy diet as well as fully loaded with extra calcium and vitamins. lol. SO in a way overfeed a bit. :x Not too much though. And I'd feed mice occassionally. But rather not.


I rather get alot of other fatty/protein loaded foods. (fatty foods would be waxworms and be fed every other feeding along with their regular feeding). I want a juvenile because I want it to be younger so that I can have it grow bigger on its own. Since toads sorta grow fast. You could be getting a 10 year old cane toad thats 10ft long(suriname--- doubt that big though); and the seller could say its just 2 years old. While if you get a young cane toad you know its under a year old and you can get it that big.


But you can't count on a suriname young cane toad because there would be no way to know if it came from suriname at the young age. Am I right? How big can regular cane toads get? I mean the one I had was 2x bigger than the largest american toad I had before and have now. 4-5inch or so.

[spencerburgo]

sigh... I may have to settle for the regular cane toads then. I don't wanna buy a full grown suriname in fear it maybe actually a dud and be a regular florida cane toad.

Wouldn't space and diet also play a role on their size? So a wild caught floridian one could get that big if it was fed a heavy diet as well as fully loaded with extra calcium and vitamins. lol. SO in a way overfeed a bit. :x Not too much though. And I'd feed mice occassionally. But rather not.


I rather get alot of other fatty/protein loaded foods. (fatty foods would be waxworms and be fed every other feeding along with their regular feeding). I want a juvenile because I want it to be younger so that I can have it grow bigger on its own. Since toads sorta grow fast. You could be getting a 10 year old cane toad thats 10ft long(suriname--- doubt that big though); and the seller could say its just 2 years old. While if you get a young cane toad you know its under a year old and you can get it that big.


But you can't count on a suriname young cane toad because there would be no way to know if it came from suriname at the young age. Am I right? How big can regular cane toads get? I mean the one I had was 2x bigger than the largest american toad I had before and have now. 4-5inch or so.

it all depends there are some big cane toads it depends were they originate from as to how big they get, but ive read that the ones from florida are quite small i think, also surinams are the largest canes i dont think anything else comes close apart from bufo blombergi, wich are very rare but huge!! and rococos

http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2011/...-american.html
here is an interesting link for you to read, there is no way you could confuse a surinam there paratoid glands are like golf balls,

cheers spencer............

[Deku]

it all depends there are some big cane toads it depends were they originate from as to how big they get, but ive read that the ones from florida are quite small i think, also surinams are the largest canes i dont think anything else comes close apart from bufo blombergi, wich are very rare but huge!! and rococos

http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2011/...-american.html
here is an interesting link for you to read, there is no way you could confuse a surinam there paratoid glands are like golf balls,

cheers spencer............

even young ones?

[spencerburgo]

even young ones?

yes even young ones but i doubt you will see any young surinams, ive never seen a male i think who ever collects them must pick all the large ones hence all females and no juveys,

cheers spencer...............

[Deku]

yes even young ones but i doubt you will see any young surinams, ive never seen a male i think who ever collects them must pick all the large ones hence all females and no juveys,

cheers spencer...............

I'd breed them if I could. :c Maybe ill special order some. But then what will I do with the other tadpoles/toadlets? I can't just kill all those can tadpole/toadlets just because I want young toads... That'd be messed up. :x If I had someone who will buy them I'd do that. SO I can keep a few toadlets for myself. But that breeding project would be flawed. too many tadpoles=too many toads. Gosh that sucks then.

[BG]

Spencer pal you opened up a new can of worms. LOL Very interesting. Thats why you make the bick bucks.lol