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I am so fustrated, this is my second cane toad and this one will not eat either, I keep wide mouth toads, african bull frogs, pacs and have never had a problem. I bought this one off of diamond reptiles he is about 5 inches. I keep him in a twenty gal. he has logs, hides all that. I have tried worms, crickets, fuzzies. please help. Am I just unlucky or is this common. Jason

Is it possible that he's just not eating in front of you? I have two of these toads and they happen to be very skittish. By this I mean that when they do eat they do it under their hide log. I watch them from the side, but as soon as they see me, they go back in even more. Actually, the only time I see them is mostly into the evening when they come for a soak. These guys of mine are not of the bold type I guess, yet I've had them both for about a year now.

Stress? How long have you had him?

reako45

I had a female Cane Toad a few years back and she never ate at all. I tried loads of different foods etc. Apart from force feeding I couldn't think of anything else to do. I sold her after about 6 weeks to a specialist petshop. However recently I have read (I think it was a post on here) that cane toads can take a while to acclimatise themselves to new environments, and become secure enought to eat infront of you. Presumably this is because all Cane Toads (at least in the UK) are wild caught because nobody's managed to breed them here yet, so they're probable mega stressed from being pulled from their natural environment and imported thousands of miles to another country.
Anyway the lady said in her post that you have to persevere with them and be patient and eventually they will feed easily.
I'm hopefully getting one soon Good luck!