Are you ready for a fire-bellied Toad?

I have had my fire-bellied toads and newts for a couple months now and feel I have a little more knowledge of keeping them.

So far I have found them much more easy to take care of than I had expected.  They can be left for 1-2 weeks while I am on vacation and thrive just fine.  I just put a lot of crickets in their home as I leave and when I get back they don’t even act hungry.  I do clean and change the water in their aquarium more often that I did when I just had fish in it (about every other week).  Having to change the water more often is well worth the entertainment value of these cute toads.  So, I now can highly recommend having fire-bellied toads and newts as pets.  Remember, if you find you cannot take care of these animals DO NOT release them into the wild.  Return them to a pet store that will find another suitable home for them.

Read this “care sheet” to see if a fire-bellied toad is a good pet for you.

http://www.petco.com/caresheets/amphibians/Toad_Firebellied.pdf

Check out these sites to find out how to care for fire-bellied toads.  Then you can decide if a fire-bellied toad is the right pet for you.

http://exoticpets.about.com/cs/frogsandtoads/a/orientalfbtoads.htm

http://allaboutfrogs.org/info/mypets/firebellies.html

http://www.amphibiancare.com/frogs/caresheets/firebelliedtoad.htm

http://www.grizzlyrun.com/Pets/Amphibians/Frogs/Fire_Bellied_Toad_Care_Information/Default.html