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He's been living in my patio for about a year and a half and last night I caught him napping in a pot by the glass door so I took a photo. I don't plan on kicking him out or anything if it turns out he's poisonous, but I'm curious as to what he is. His colors are mottled dull green and yellow. The pot he's sitting in is six inches across. I live in South Florida. If this picture is too blurry, I'll go poking around later today and try to get a better one.

Thanks for your help!

It seems I have TWO toads -- I was looking for the toad to get a better picture of it and I found a second one. This one is light brown with very distinct black markings. It's bigger than the first toad. I'm guessing that they're both the same species since they both live in the same small area (my patio). Can anyone tell what they are?

Here's a better photo of the first (green) toad. Took me awhile to find it, lurking in an overturned pot near where it was last night.

I could be wrong, I'm no expert at this, but the second one looks like a Cane Toad to me. The first one looks slightly different though. Again, not sure exactly, but that's my guess. =)

They are both canes, and if one if much bigger than the other, they are male and female.. Females get up to 9 inches. They will be raising cane...

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It looks VERY MUCH like a Cane toad(bufo Marinus) . Yes he is toxic, if you have any pets that might drink out of the water bowl...IT WILL KILL THE PET. These guys were released in Florida many years ago, as well as MANY OTHER places. They have become serious pests.

On a side note, they make great pets. I have a cane of my own, and I enjoy every wacky thing about them. Just be very careful touching it or letting anything mouth it... There is very little you can do to get rid of it, these guys breed like roaches..no joke,

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Wait I thought the cane toad originally lived in Florida and was released to Australia and other places?If it didn't originate in Florida then where?

Cane toads(Bufo marinus) or marine toads as they are properly called, come from Central and South America and the southern most tip of Texas, where they are called the Giant toad. In the 1930s the US agriculture dept. captured about 200 of these toads and shipped them to Hawaii as well as Florida, Guam, and a few other places I cant remember. they bred the heck out of them and set them free in the cane field to eat a large beetle that was eating the sugar cane(hence the name). In the 40s or 50s, the US shipped 130 toads to Austrailia, bred them and a year later released over 1000 toads....and then they found out the the toads DID NOT like the cane beetle and found other critters much more to their taste.

The brains that decided to release these toads never bothered to do any research BEFORE they set them free.. The marine toad has the most deadliest form of the Bufo toxins of any toad, they breed like flies(40,000 eggs per spawn) and every faze of its life is deadly to anything that eats it...eggs, tads, adults. In its natural environment, there are snakes and other toads that are able to eat them and keep their numbers in check, but there are very few in Austrailia or Hawaii where the cane toad has become a serious plague..

Hope this doesnt sound too boring, I just did a bioloy report on the cane toad, so I still have the info in my head. I actually enjoy keeping the cane I have, even though he doesn't do much.

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Billie
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