I need advice raising my toads

[nicodimus22]

I can see the left eye in the last photo, it's just mostly covered with whatever that stuff is. It could be algae or fungus or something else. Someone more knowledgeable will have to tell you what that is. If it's stopping her from being able to eat, time is important though, since they don't have much body mass to fall back on at such a young age.

If she was mine, and a vet was not an immediate option, right or wrong, I would probably take her in one hand (hold all your fingertips together with her in between, facing out) and take a soft damp cloth like a cotton diaper firmly in the other hand and try to rub it off. I don't know if a Q-tip would be too abrasive and possibly scratch the eye. The way I look at it, if she can't eat, she's going to die anyway, so there isn't much to lose by trying to help. You might want to wait for other responses and see if I'm way off base though.

It's a bummer about your tadpoles, but if you think about it, most tadpoles in the wild don't live to see adulthood either. There's a reason toads lay hundreds of eggs at once! If you help 4 or 5 toads out of 25 live to see adulthood, that's better odds than they would have seen in the wild.

[Curb71]

It's a bummer about your tadpoles, but if you think about it, most tadpoles in the wild don't live to see adulthood either. There's a reason toads lay hundreds of eggs at once! If you help 4 or 5 toads out of 25 live to see adulthood, that's better odds than they would have seen in the wild.

you're right about that part for sure. I went back today with boiled lettuce to see if they were still alive I could maybe help them out. It was the first time I'd been back for about 6 weeks and it dried up and they were all dead. NONE of them made it past the tadpole stage or escaped alive . so like you said, thousands of eggs and looks like 4-5 survivors. here's a before and after pic of where I caught them.
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It is a man made concrete "area" with about a 2.5' tall wall and it only had a inch or two of water from the start. all the water dried up and so did they.
Don't want to get to far off topic though, I got a baby toadlet that needs help! let the advice flow peoples.