feeding toads to tokays?
- Thread starter Liddle
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Riverside Reptiles
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It really will depend on the type of toad. Toads can most certainly carry various toxins. If it's already been consumed, there's not much else to do but wait and see what happens.
Riverside Reptiles
Administrator (HMFIC)
I have no idea what a "brown toad" is. That describes a great many of them. You would need to find out specifically what species of toad it is and then research that type of toad to see what sort of toxins it may contain. As I said, the tokay will either live or not at this point. There's not a whole lot you can do about it.
Liddle
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PREDATION
Adults Predominate toad predators include nocturnal mammals, particularly raccoons and skunks, and a variety of snakes including: garter (Thamnophis s. sirtalis), hognose (Heteroden platyrhinos), and water snakes (Nerodia s. sipedon). Toads employ anti-predator defenses including camouflage, escape by burrowing, ejection of urine, and noxious or toxic skin secretions released from enlarged parotid glands and warty skin (Knox 1999). The secretions are mainly cardiotoxic steroids which some mammalian predators (including domestic dogs painfully learn to avoid
Adults Predominate toad predators include nocturnal mammals, particularly raccoons and skunks, and a variety of snakes including: garter (Thamnophis s. sirtalis), hognose (Heteroden platyrhinos), and water snakes (Nerodia s. sipedon). Toads employ anti-predator defenses including camouflage, escape by burrowing, ejection of urine, and noxious or toxic skin secretions released from enlarged parotid glands and warty skin (Knox 1999). The secretions are mainly cardiotoxic steroids which some mammalian predators (including domestic dogs painfully learn to avoid
Marauderhex
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I'm with Ethan, it's out of your hands now. I definitely wouldn't be feeding animals from outside.
Toads
If the toad is wild caught, then your Tokay will be infected with any parasites that the toad is carrying. I would stick to domestic raised feeder insects. If you care about your Tokay or anybody else, then don't treat it like a garbage disposal. Just because the Tokay will eat it doesn't mean it is good for them. Since a person has the Tokay as a pet then they need to take responsibility to decide what is good for them to eat. The cane toad was introduced in Hawaii and ends up killing any predator that eats it. So it is possible for other toads to have toxins as well.
If the toad is wild caught, then your Tokay will be infected with any parasites that the toad is carrying. I would stick to domestic raised feeder insects. If you care about your Tokay or anybody else, then don't treat it like a garbage disposal. Just because the Tokay will eat it doesn't mean it is good for them. Since a person has the Tokay as a pet then they need to take responsibility to decide what is good for them to eat. The cane toad was introduced in Hawaii and ends up killing any predator that eats it. So it is possible for other toads to have toxins as well.
thehotchik1000
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Suuuch a BAD idea as everyone already stated.
Fecal exam immediately if the tok remains ok.
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Fecal exam immediately if the tok remains ok.
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