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Hi all, I suspect this is a stupid/silly question. I am wondering if it is at all possible to use a marine toad or rococo toad to scent pinkies with to feed baby W. Hognoses.

I sort of suspect that I should not use something that comes from outside their range and that they would not be able to fit in their mouths if they came across one anyway. Toxins?

Thanks,
Carole
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well they are supposed to be deadly, but I guess hognoses should be immune. Sounds risky since it is out of the range.

Hey where did you get a marine toad? Australia?

Since they are toxic at all life stages, and are known to kill most all of their predators in Australia, I certainly would not take the risk!

BTW, ghettozoohouse, Cane toads are not native to Australia, but are to Central and South America. They have been introduced into Florida and it is not at all hard to get them.
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they are the same as the marine toad that has taken over Australia right?
Maybe I'm mistaken.
They were exported over there.
Hey do they make good pets?

Yes, that is the same as the marine toad, also the giant toad. Although my experience with keeping cane toads has been very bad, others seem to think they make good pets.
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...the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it."
Aldo Leopold (1938)

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
Calvin and Hobbes (Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink', 1991)

I was thinking of getting one. My thinking was Bufo = good, big Bufo = better. Then I realized I couldn't afford to feed it. Now I'm wondering if I could feed it mice, but I'm happy with my little toad.
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Alexander Skutch