Care Sheet for ToadsAverage Rating Given To This Care Sheet Is 3.00 (1=lowest, 5=highest) Last Updated: 05/08/2006 |
Main Category: | Aquatic/Land |
Sub Category: | Toads |
Care Sheet Submitted By: | Zingoo |
Years Experience: | 10 to 15 Years |
Species: | Southern toad |
Other Species or Phases this Care Sheet May Cover: | american toad
wood house’s toad |
Sexing and Characteristics: | Male southern toads have a dark throat and are slightly smaller than females |
Mostly Active During: | Night |
Substrate and Water Needs: | Must have a water bowl big enough for the toads to all submerge entirely at the same time. this should be changed AT LEAST every 2-3 days depending on how many toads you have. You could have a one-third part of the cage under water and separated by a piece of thick plastic.
you can do this as long as you have a rock to help them climb out of the water.
Never use a large bark-type substrate in a toad’s enclosure, this could easily impact your toad. you can use a bio degradable shredded coconut bark substrate that is pre made or, if you would like to use live plants, you could mix 1-2 cup of peat moss, 6-cups of potting/garden soil(with no chemical fertilizers) and 1 cup of coconut bark (shredded) together to get a substrate that holds enough moisture for you toads to burrow, but not enough to start a fungus or kill plants
double the amounts of ingredients if you are using a twenty
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Lighting and UVB: | No UVB lighting is needed. a fluorescent fish light (keepers choice) or a regular heat lamp with a regular light bulb in it would be fine
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Temperatures and Humidity: | About 67-75 in the day and 70 - 80 in the day, always mist the cage in the morning, unless the soil is saturated, which would bring your cage to about 60- 70 % humidity |
Heating and Equipment: | An under tank heat mat would be useful on one side of the tank, but you could always use a heat lamp during the day
many toads do appreciate a good waterfall or small creek to their water bowl. |
Caging Provided: | 2 toads could comfortably be housed in a 10 or twenty gallon aquarium |
Diet: | Carnivorous |
Description of Diet: | Many will be comfortable with a diet of crickets, and the occasional supplemented earth worm. |
Supplements, Nutrition and Usage: | Use calcium only on worms. and only lightly dust one end of the worm. only provide worms with supplements on a once every two week basis |
Maintenance: | Spot clean every day or every day after a feeding. clean entire cage every once in a month. substrate can be used effectively in a compost garden |
Some Words on this Species: | This is a great beginner amphibian and many mellow and become quite calm when being held |
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