I have two baby horny toads. How often do they eat and how big of a cricket can they eat.?

Question

The crickets are strarting to out grow my toads. Do they eat any vegitation??

Answer 1

Desert Horned lizards (commonly called horny toads)eat as their main diet, harvester ants and will die without them, they also eat alot in one day. THey also need a uvb bulb that emits 5 percent or higher uvb rays, i like zoo meds reptisun 5.0 or 10.0 and Reptiglo 5.0 or 8.0 and it needs to be replaced every 6 months because the bulb loses its uvb output. It will also need a basking are of atleast 95-100 degrees and a cage big enough so that it can escape the heat if needed (properly thermoregulate) They are very difficult to keep and that site http://www.antsalive.com/ being the only one i know of to buy harvester ants for the lizards food.
http://www.desertusa.com/april96/du_hliz.html

http://www.zo.utexas.edu/faculty/pianka/phryno.html

http://www.hornedlizards.org/

http://www.antsalive.com/

Answer 2

You can get them to eat crickets? They are generally strictly ant eaters... And no, no vegetation as far as I know.

Edit, and uh... they aren't really toads. However they are pretty cool. When threatened they can force blood out of the sinus cavity below their eyes and shoot blood a fair distance. Certainly a creative defense.

Answer 3

I don't know what to feed 'em ... but if they don't work out as pets you could have one heck of a pajama party.

Burn the skin of toads and some chemical therein gives off a smoke that intoxicates. Cherokee Indians found out about this 300 years ago. Their experimentalists sat around smoking pipefuls of dried toadskins, and talking, laughing, and getting shiny-eyed. Or so the scholars now report.