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Hello,
I have a 20ish year old Spadefoot that is starting to show his age (kidney issues). I am doing all that I can for him and he seems happy and eats well, but I think his remaining time may be limited.
I love having him around and will miss him greatly.
My question is, what is another type of cute, smallish, lower maintenance frog or toad.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Cristina

pacman frogs, do get big, but don't need much room easy to care for, though they do eat mice as adults, leapord frogs are easy to care for but are very active and escape easily, fire bellied toads are small and fun and easy to care for, require a large water area and either a filter or daily water changes, green, grey, squirrl, golden, or whites treefrogs are somewhat easy to care for as long as you keep them very clean.

2.0.0 whites treefrogs
0.1.0 mexican leaf frog (P. dacnicolor)
1.0.0 golden treefrog
0.0.1 green treefrog
1.0.0 southern leapord frog
2.0.0 green frogs
0.0.1 bullfrog
1.0.1 smokey jungle frogs
2.0.0 pixie frogs
1.0.0 pac-man frog
3.0.2 fire-belly toads
0.0.1 yellow-belly toad
1.0.1 fire-belly newts
1.0.0 blue-spotted salamander
0.1.0 yellow spotted salamander
1.0.0 barred tiger salamander
1.1.0 blotched tiger salamander
1.0.0 eastern tiger salamander
1.0.0 gray tiger salamander
0.0.4 koi
0.0.1 fantail comet
0.1.0 green iguana
1.0.0 german shepard
1.0.0 quaker parrolette

There are many toads in the genus Bufo that wood be great for you.

Some of the most commonly available are:
American toads (Bufo americanus)
Fowler's toads (Bufo fowleri)
Woodhouse's toads (Bufo woodhousei)
Egyptian toads (Bufo viridis)
European common toads (Bufo bufo)

All of these will stay under 7 inches in body length (7" is about the max for females, males stay smaller)

The care is similar to that of your spadefoot, with a few variations. Take the time to look up lots of caresheets online.

Correction:

I just looked it up and Egyptian toads are not Bufo viridis.
Egyptian toads are Bufo regularis. Bufo viridis is the green toad.
the green toad is another species that you can add to the list in my previous message.

Thanks so much guys. I'll look at the ones you just mentioned.
I have been looking around and I think I have decided that my next will be a White's. I just can't resist the big mushy faces.
My spadefoot just keeps on keepin on though. He is just the best little guy. He'll probably outlive me!
He has to live on paper towels now, instead of in dirt because I came home one day about 2 years ago and he was literally a potato chip...black and flat and crunchy...
I thought he was dead but when I picked him up his leg moved.
We soaked him in Plasmalyte (an IV fluid) overnight and he recovered. He sloughed a bit of skin off a spot on his back and his kidney blood values are off the chart still after 2 years but he hops around and eats well and gets excited to see me so...who knows...
I'm trying to insert a photo, we'll see if it works
If it does not work I am also attaching a link to his photo album.
Thanks again

My toad's photo album