r/Toads

A lot of you seem to love Japanese Common Toads, And I seem to have a large group of them. So I’ve come here today to share my Bufo Japonicus with you all! Enjoy!

Watch your step.

I don’t know anything about toads but I just bought a house and it has this basement window for egress. This toad is inside the well and probably can’t get out. I’m assuming he needs rescuing but I didn’t want to disturb him if he’s a happy guy.

Been hanging in my garden several years just keeps getting BIGGER❣️

We’re in Minnesota. Can someone please help me ID these tadpoles? We THINK they’re American toads. We noticed them about 3 weeks ago and the biggest tadpoles still don’t have legs.

We have a leak in a return line of our in-ground pool and couldn’t get leak detection in until next week. Well, it’s been a month and we haven’t been able to treat the pool or run the pump, so our green pool became the perfect place for mom & dad toad to start a family. We have scooped out maybe 200 tadpoles but unsure what to do with them. Kiddie pool and let them grow up? But, will they grow up and all be hanging around my pool then? We will obviously be treating and using the pool after leak detection comes out and I don’t want them to be falling in and getting poisoned or drowning. I would prefer to relocate them but I’m unsure of the legalities and don’t want to disturb any local bodies of water or spread disease, etc.
We do NOT want to kill them!! Any advice is appreciated!

Big girl Smudge demands I refill the worm bowl. How dare I eat while she *STARVES*. (They were fed yesterday.)

Found him at my garden center at work, how could I fix him up? (Background of experienced reptile keeper) i know a fair amount about amphibians too

Saw that no one had shared this yet, it has been stuck in my head for weeks now! A song by a Toad in the pilot episode of Gnome Show

I was walking around in Hawaii in the forest and found these tadpoles in little puddles next to the river. I’m pretty sure they are cane toad tadpoles.

Not sure how long toads in the wild live, but this one has been hanging around for a few years. I enjoy having her and all her friends come around for evening sing-alongs.

Cute toad picture for your time.

This is showing up all over my sphagnum moss in my toads enclosure. It's humid and summer right now the inside of his tank usually stays around 70-75 degrees and 65-70% ( up to 80% at night with the lid on) humidity.

If this is mold how can I get rid of it/get the humidity down in his tank? I usually take the lid off during the day but at night it has to stay on because I have cats.

Thanks in advance :)

I put some water in a shallow dish next to him for now

Hi guys, my tadpole is finally turned into a toadlet but for some reason I’m having second thoughts. I have other toadlets and he doesn’t look like them. The area he was found in had a high number of fowlers and southern toads, but he looks a little different to me, mainly his huge eyes. He transformed a couple of weeks ago and is growing FAST! He’s a healthy little guy, but I’m wondering if my assumed ID is wrong. He is from a very rural area with every type of frog and toad we have to offer in this part of our state, but I thought they were toad tadpoles. I mainly need a correct (or best guess) ID so I can properly care for him and give him exactly what he needs to thrive. Thanks 🐸

My mum lives in Sicily and I was visiting her a few weeks ago when I heard noise coming from an old water well in her courtyard (photos 1 and 2). The well isn't in use anymore. It's about 3 metres deep, roughly 4 by 6 metres at the bottom, with just a small puddle left in it (photo 3). When I opened the well, I noticed some frogs and toads around the water puddle. So I figured the frogs and toads were falling in, probably attracted by the water and the buffet of mosquitoes and other bugs that breed in there, and then couldn't get back out because the walls are smooth and far too steep to climb.

So I tried to come up with an idea to rescue them.

First attempt: I lowered an empty bucket on a rope, hoping they'd hop in so I could hoist them up. They were not impressed. Nobody climbed in. Besides that, because I don't live there, I figured this wouldn't be a permanent solution either.

So I got to plan B: build them a ladder.

I gathered some scrap wood in a wheelbarrow (photo 4) and screwed short crossbars onto a long plank, spaced closely enough for small legs. Then I lowered it into the well at an angle so it runs from the puddle up to the rim, where there is a small indentation for them to climb out (photos 5 and 6).

After two days I spotted the first frogs and toads sitting on the bottom rungs (photo 7).

I left Sicily three days after I built the ladder, but returned last week because of the ten-year anniversary of my mother's wedding.

Because I was curious if the ladder worked, I reopened the well, and to my absolute joy, this absolute unit of a fella climbed the whole thing and was sitting at the top, just one hop from freedom (photos 8 and 9).

The ladder stays in permanently, so anyone who falls in can now climb out on their own. Mission accomplished🥳🐸