Fowler's Toads: From Tadpole to Toadlet.

[Sweets1023]

This was brought up in a previous post of mine and as promised I have come up with a timeline of sorts with pictures of my experience raising Fowler's Toad tadpoles. These tads were rescued from a collection of rain water in a pool cover. The cover was going to be taken off and I couldn't stand to see every last one of the tadpoles die. Specially because the amphibian population of Long Island has been declining.

Any questions or friendly comments are welcome. Enjoy

Fowler's Toads - a set on Flickr

 

[Mystery]

Thanks for sharing these. Hope the two toadlets are doing well

 

[HN1]

Thanks! They are soooo cute! Great save!

 

[severum mama]

How cute! Are you going to keep them or release them?

 

[Sweets1023]

I plan on releasing them in a reserve behind my parents house once they get a little bit bigger.

 

[mom2reds]

That was a very cool thing to do thanks for sharing your experiance with us.

 

[divedeep1689]

awesome way to help our environment!!

 

[InfernoST]

Great job.

 

[MsBeanCtr]

Kudos to you! I love the photos too....

 

[hacket]

So what did you feed them?

 

[Sweets1023]

Currently they're eating wingless fruit flies that I ordered online. But when they were tads they mostly ate tropical fish food! lol After doing research i found that they should be eating sinking algae pellets and some boiled spinach they wouldn't eat it. So I tried the fish food and they loved it.

 

[hacket]

Haha! That's completely awesome. I wish I had some tadpoles.