pregnant fire belly toad?

Question

I recenty got 2 fire belly toads. I found out that one is a female and one is male. They have been mating latley. If she lays eggs do I leave them in the aquarium or remove them? Can I leave the baby toads in the aquarium or do I take them out?

Answer 1

In order to stimulate breeding, slowly lower and then slowly raise the temperature within the terrarium. The males will begin chirping and mounting the backs of other Fire Belly Toads. Once a female is ready to breed, she will carry the male around on her back in the water. The female Fire Belly is capable of laying as many as 200 eggs and will deposit them in small groups or by themselves on rocks, plants, and whatever else can be found in the water. After she has laid her eggs, remove them and place them in a separate aquarium with a maintained 77-degree Fahrenheit temperature. Like other toads Fire Belly Toads eat most anything they can fit in their mouths, including tadpoles, which is why it is important to keep the eggs and the mother in different enclosures! After three days at this temperature, they will hatch and then for another three days feed on the yolk sac. After this, you should feed them finely crushed fish food. At three weeks, when the tadpoles begin going through metamorphosis, you should add a land area, upon which they can climb when they are done going through metamorphosis. After only five weeks, the first tadpoles can be seen as having completed metamorphosis. At this point, they will eat small insects and should be moved to land. These toads are sexually mature in less than a year.