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RE: sexing marine toads and ?s

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Posted by: JackAsp at Sun Mar 23 01:01:35 2008  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by JackAsp ]  
   

I use sphagnum, with a big food dish that she can hop down into with her prey. This rules out using crickets, but works great for death head roaches, tomato hornworms, nightcrawlers, freshly shed superworms, etc. You'll go broke trying to keep a fullgrown cane toad full on crickets anyway.
I tried organic potting soil, but it got smelly very quickly. I've also tried Eco-Earth, which wasn't quite as bad, but wasn't fond of the way it messed up the water dish. I like to be able to see what their stool looks like so if anything's wrong I might have some warning. Sphagnum is also more resistant to bacteria, so I can keep it moister than I could with other substrates.
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0.1 Coastal Carpet Python (Boots)
0.1 Western Hognose Snake (Bebe)
0.1 Cane Toad (Hengo)
0.1 White-Banded Sheen Skink (Minerva)
1.0 Northern Diamondback Terrapin (Queequeg)


   

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