Fire Bellied Toads

As I have just cleaned them out here is a couple of pics of one of them. You can see why they are called Fire Bellied.:D
Unlike common Toads, they spend half of their time in water. This one is 14 year old!!!

 

How gorgeous strongy. Have you had her/him for the duration of the 14 years? Can you pick them up or do they have to be in the water most of the time?

Thanks for sharing ... Sis will love this .... nice to see something different. :luv:

We're overrun with baby geckos at the moment .... inside and outside :yho::yho::yho:

.... and the cicadas are going beserk ... but we've been hitting 35c these past couple of days .... NOT.

 

Sis is here and loving it! :thumb:

How many do you have, Strongy, how big are they, and how big is the tank? Do they breed in captivity? If yes, what do you do with all the babies?

 

Hi sises, I have 5 all male, females are very hard to come by (stops people breeding their own).
Two are 14/15 years old and I have had them for 12, they were about 2/3 years old whenI got them.
One I've had for three years and two small ones are recent aquisitions.
They do breed in captivity but are not saleable untill a couple of years old which is a long time to wait if you were breeding to sell, so a lot of them are still wild caught. Mine are captive bred but males as I said, the females are kept in the trade for breeding.

They do not like being handled and I wouldn't unless necessary, although they are poisonous (to eat) the heat from our hands can burn the delicate skin of an amphibian.

By the way, they originate from China and Southern Korea. The common brown Fire Belly is found in the Balkan States through to Russia.
The Yellow Bellied Toad is found throughout France and Southern Germany to Greece.

 

Oooh I wanna come visit them lol. I was just thinking I should pop down to Southill to see my nephew and my bro :D

 

Interesting, Strongy, and it sounds as if they are a popular pet. What do you feed them - dry food or live?

I remember you telling me last year about frogs having delicate skin that can burn easily from the heat of our hands. I wonder if that goes for newts, too? I often have to rescue them from the lower patio as they can't get back up and out by themselves.

 

They only eat live (moving) food such as woodlice, small worms and occasionally supplimented with
commercially bred crickets.

Newts too Kedi but only if held for sometime, not just for a minute or so.

Anytime LMRR, where in Southill?