live food

[Snake lover 3-25]

okay... so i have lots and lots of baby toads down by the creek... so i'm planning on getting a bunch of them to feed them to sooty and the other gravid females babies... but how do i keep them alive???

[adamanteus]

Cool, moist habitat, plenty of hides and bucket loads of food. Toads are greedy!:D

[Zephyr]

I suggest you find an ant hill.

[anji1971]

.......Toads are greedy!:D

That's a HUGE understatement. I've never seen a creature eat like my toad does.:D

[Snake lover 3-25]

lol but WHAT do i feed them??? they are sooooo tiny....:D

[anji1971]

Shanley, toads follow this logic when it comes to food:
"If it moves, eat it. If it doesn't move, eat it anyway, in case it moves.":D
As long as you're not trying to feed a locust to a one-inch toad, you shouldn't have a problem. They can even eat bees and such. Or tiny worms. They love worms!

[Snake lover 3-25]

but the biggest is about 1 cm....:confused: how do i find/catch food that small????

[adamanteus]

If you can't feed them Shanley, please don't collect them. They need to eat a lot... every day.

[Snake lover 3-25]

i know... if i cant find food today i will take them back... will they eat fruit flies????

[Zephyr]

Ahem... Ant hill. Put a border of books or unpassable obstacles around an ant hill and put the toads in this little "pen." Guaranteed, they'll eat their fill. But you have to watch them so the ants don't start biting them.

[Zephyr]

Fruit flies and phorid flies work too.

[Snake lover 3-25]

okay i get it!!!!:D:D thanks!!!:D:D:D

[infernalis]

Keeping them has not been a problem, finding more will be soon.

With 24 mouths eating them, 100 is only 4 toad-lets each.

There is a bunch more wogs ready to drop tail, so I will have them for a little longer.

Glad we moved all the eggs in the spring, we have 4 big mud bogs for off road vehicles to tear up, the toads and frogs lay huge gobs of eggs in the bogs every year.

So we move all the eggs we can get to an isolated pond, with no motor vehicles allowed, so far our harvesting them for food has not made much of a dent, the birds and local snakes are eating their fill also.

Last night I saw a very pretty eastern yearling out there having a feast, I left it alone, did not have my camera handy either no pictures:mad:

[crzy_kevo]

man that sucks

[adamanteus]

Wayne, you really should have that camera PERMANENTLY around your neck!:D

[crzy_kevo]

i agree with james man u are so lucky to live in an area abundant with critters

[Snake lover 3-25]

exactly why i'm collecting them even though the babies haven't even cone yet!!!:D:D



So we move all the eggs we can get to an isolated pond


wow that's what i did!!!!

[infernalis]

Wayne, you really should have that camera PERMANENTLY around your neck!:D

Normally I do James, to promote my park I have to do paparazzi style sports photos all the time, and when I go out herping I usually have it, when I take care of my animals I usually have it.....

But we were netting toads, the cam was in the truck.

I did snap this shot of Dorothy walking the creek line, from way back. On any given evening we see wildlife all around. we are 1/3 mile back from the house here.

If you want, I can walk out and take some wide shots and post them on the nature thread..

http://www.danceswithreptiles.com/dorothy.jpg

[adamanteus]

Hi Dorothy! (waves). Photos are always welcome on the Nature Photography thread, Wayne.

[infernalis]

Hi Dorothy! (waves). Photos are always welcome on the Nature Photography thread, Wayne.

sounds real motivational:D hmm

[infernalis]

Here is my prized babies chowing down...

http://www.danceswithreptiles.com/radix/magma.jpg

http://www.danceswithreptiles.com/radix/mel.jpg

http://www.danceswithreptiles.com/radix/trio.jpg

[jitami]

Good stuff! Love Melanie, even though she's in shed, she's still chowing down!

[Zephyr]

Such violence. XD

[anji1971]

YUM!!They sure like those!!!:)

[Garter_Gertie]

Wayne, you got any o'those like in the top pic that's a yearling and would fit with Jeepers and Peepers? Gosh but garters are damn cute! I can't believe I'm FINALLY going to have some! PM me.

Note to self: Ask Dave about bringing worms home from the park; get f/t pinkies; buy some fishlets and FREEZE THEM!; get some human fish...

[infernalis]

Gertie, Melanie is a melanistic eastern, a morph from Scott Felzer, I was on a waiting list, and they are sold out now.

I can already tell she is going to be a big girl.