A Year With Frog and Toad

i know that frogs do it by the female laying the eggs and then the male fertilising them. ive got 2 fire bellied toads, and i see them humping all the time. now my female toad is pregnant, and i was wondering whats gonna happen when she gives birth. will it just be the same as the frogs way? do i have to do anything to allow them to lay there eggs?

Firebelly toads breed the same way as any other frogs or toads do. They are humping because they are just going through the motions. The female becomes fat with eggs, which the male will then have to fertilize externally. Make sure you keep the water clean of waste after they spawn.

I was wondering what a good beginner frog or toad would be that could stay in a 10 gallon tank or less. Also some supplies i would need for it.

not red eye treefrog (tanks too small hard to keep) like some1 said

horned (pacman) frog
dwarf african bullfrog
fire belly toad or 2
african dwarf clawed frogs

frogs, salamanders, and toads have thin moist skin to aid in what process? is it to keep them cool or what?

they have moist skin to make sure their skin doesn’t dry and harden. that’s why they like water. sometimes their skin is wet because of their mucus

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I heard something somewhere that it isn’t good to have a pet amphibian if you have a baby or toddler. Does anyone know anything about this or can you lead me in the right direction?

They can carry salmonella so it is not good to have them as a pet.

can i keep an emperor newt, 2 pygmy leaf chameleons, and poison dart frogs or fire belly toads in the same 29 gallon aquarium. i am planing on doin something like this. if not than can you give me suggestions?

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I’m a pagan and lately I’ve been seeing frogs/toads. If they’re totems, what are their strengths?

This depends, but here are some associations:

(1) Frogs can be associated with the mysteries of childbirth and fertility. The ancient Egyptian goddess of childbirth and midwifery, Heket, was a woman with a frog’s head. The frog’s head reminded Egyptians of the flooding of the Nile each summer in the Dog Days, which is the basis of the fertility of the Nile valley. (The Exodus narrative of the Ten Plagues of Egypt parodies ten prominent Egyptian deities with plagues, and the Plague of Frogs parodies Heket.) Ancient Egyptian women attempting to conceive often wore amulets or talismans with the figure of a frog on it. Similarly, among Mesoamerican cultures such as the Olmec, the goddess Ceneotl, a frog-woman, is the patron goddess of childbirth and fertility also. The frog as an ancient fertility and childbirth symbol appears in other cultures as well; the fertility associations of the frog were related in part to the prolific character of amphibian reproduction.

(2) frogs and toads may both be associated with healing, particularly magical healing and transformation. The frog appears in numerous European folktales (most notably "The Frog Prince") as the bearer of a magical curse of transformation that requires healing. This is derived from earlier myths in which the frog or toad is the mythic symbol of magical transformation and healing; this is also the derivation of the importance of the frog in folktales about witches’ cauldrons.

(3) Cycles of death and rebirth are other associations with the toad. The Aztecs represented the Earth Mother in her Death aspect as Tlaltecuhtli, Toad-Woman. The ancient world often understood the mysterious transformation of the tadpole into the adult frog or toad as symbolic of the transmogrification of the soul from a living form to a dead form to a new living form.

(4) Frogs and toads appear universally in many cultures’ mythologies as symbols of the element of Water. Obviously, their amphibian character makes them an ideal symbol of the Watery Part of Earth.

So, here are some possibilities:
–healing
–fertility & the birth-mysteries
–self-transformation
–Water

These are rooted in conventionalized, mythic, allusive meanings of the frog or toad as archetypes. But there is also always room for your personal associations of this animal with a particular aspect of your experience to be foregrounded; such is the nature of totem animal work. What does the frog or toad mean to you?

Hope this helps. The frog is a sacred symbol for many Neo-Pagan practitioners; this is a very legitimate sacred totem for your own spiritual practice.

Blessed be.

How do i prevent it please please please i have those little frogs and are so cute..newborns frogs/toads actually(not tadpoles) and how to find and get their food other than shops I live from the Philippines but moved to Florida I’m not sure where crickets are…;(

You can buy them at a pet store? wher’d you get the frogs ?

We had quite a few unusual play things in Arizona when I was very small. Have never seen a june bug or horned toad in California.
I wish I could have seen a frog at night after it ate a fire fly and glowed in the dark that is truly amazing lol. I love what I learn in this category from you all.

Yes, all the above even granddaddy spiders. doodle bugs , anything that crawled or could fly (if we could catch it) even little mice. We lived in the south (still do) and were not afraid of anything. Played with hog-nosed snakes too. Poppy

When frogs and toads breed, do they all lay eggs which become tadpoles? I have tons of frog and toads in my yard and there is no lake here at all. If all frogs and toads were once tadpoles then when they breed in my yard,where do they swim? Hope this makes since.

Thanks!

Quick answer: The toads and frogs you see in your yard were probably born some distance away from your yard.

Lke others have answered, many of the most common species of frogs and toads need water to breed.
Most exploit habitats with still water (permanent or temporary natural pools, and even swimming pools if the water is not chlorinated!), others breed in fast-running creeks and brooks, but there’s a whole variety that use different breeding strategies, including building little mud "domes" where they lay their eggs, or leaf "cones" that keep the eggs hanging above water bodies until they hatch and fall to the water… yet many others breed away from the water, keeping their young in their vocal sacs, on their backs (attached or in a pouch), and bypassing the swimming tadpole stage.

Thus, not all species breed according to the textbook version. However, the ones you have in your yard probably do, and all this information doesn’t help you to understand where they come from.

During the spring, or when conditions are favorable, frogs and toads migrate to waterbodies to spawn. The males go first, and start calling to establish their territories and attract the females. After they have released the eggs and fertilized them, they return to their usual dwellings. Later, when the tadpoles turn into froglets, they leave the water in huge numbers. These little froglets will take some years to mature sexually (if they survive), and at some point during that time they will find your yard.

If you want to know where they are breeding, pay attention to their calls during the reproductive season, and follow your ears.
You will need a flashlight and rubber boots, but it can be fun

The word amphibia comes from two Greek words: amphi meaning of both kinds and bios meaning life. Amphibia are a class of vertebrate (back-bones) animals that can live both in water and on land. They are descended from fishes that lived more than 300 million years ago.

The first amphibia to crawl out of the water were heavily built, and slow and clumsy on land, but more active in water. They had long bodies and tails, and some developed into the highly efficient class of reptiles.

About 160 million years ago many amphibia became extinct. But a few survived to develop into the present-day frogs, newts, salamanders and the wormlike caecilians.