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We just had some tadpoles morph into toads and they are sooo tiny. We have adjusted the aquarium into a terrarium, but not the queston is what should we feed them. We had fed them algae tablets while they were tadpoles, but now what??? Since they are so tiny, maybe 1/2" long, what food we feed them?

Also, my son caught a rather unusual toad, it seemed to have skin that was a little like a frog, but it was still a toad.
Any ideas as to what may have happened?
I've tried using a link for a picof the toad, hopefully it will work.
Thanks in advance!

You can feed your toadlets flightless fruit flies and pinhead crickets. Wait about a week after their tails have completely absorbed before offering food. They will not eat while their tails are absorbing at all and usually takes them a little while when it is finished to eat. (My leopard froglets didn't eat for nearly 2 weeks after absorning their tails)

As for the toad that was found, afraid I'm no help there... but I'm sure someone here will be able to!
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Heather

Chilean Christmas Toad
(B.Varigatus)

Thanks to ellasmommie & ginevive about the pinhead crickets! The baby toads are fine tuning their hunting skills. I actually saw one that had caught a cricket; half of the cricket was hanging out of its mouth. It looks like they are on their way.
Thanks again!

Thanks to ellasmommie & ginevive about the pinhead crickets! The baby toads are fine tuning their hunting skills. I actually saw one that had caught a cricket; half of the cricket was hanging out of its mouth. It looks like they are on their way.
Thanks again!

Well if you wanna go the cheap route for the baby toads you can feed then small ants, but be careful how many you put in at a time because they may gang up on them and kill then. And if that is the pic of the toad, it is a toad, but it doesn't look like any I've seen around here, maybe it's deformed.

You can feed them pinhead crickets and fruitflies (flightless ones are preferable.) These can be ordered online at many sites with links here on kingsnake.com, or go to the kingsnake classifieds and look up food/feeders. If you live in an area where pesticides are not used, you could catch small insects such as those tiny grasshopper bugs, and try that first. I would recommend feeding them in a container with little or no substrate material, because it could get in their mouth while they strike out at the prey.
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*~Ginevive~*

As for the male toad that was caught, I've caught male American Toads and all of them have had semi- moist skin like a frog. My female American Toad "Chloe", on the other hand, has the typical dryer skin like other toads. I don't think it's deformed.

I don't think it's deformed either. I did a bit of research on American Toads and found that their skin can change with temperature and humidity. This was a wild toad that my son caught, he wanted to find out if it was some sort of hybrid. He thought that the olive colored and semi-moist skin was uncommon for a toad since he had caught plenty of dry brown ones in previous years. From my reading, I have found that they can have quite a variety of coloring. I almost wish we had kept it, but we returned it to the wild. My son now has his 9 toadlets to raise of which his Dad said he could keep 2. We will be releasing the remainder into the wild after we know that they are eating well.
Here's a couple more pictures of the olive green American Toad, I think it was really cute. It certainlywas accomodating for the front shot:

I don't think you can. You may introduce some type of chemical.

Can what? Chemical???? I don't understand your reply.