Climbing Toads Anyone?

alex1976 · #1 (**permalink**) 06-20-2008, 02:52 AM

My family spent Father's Day at the Houston Zoo this year. We spent a majority of our time looking at all the plants all around the zoo and in the Reptile and Amphibian House.

The Houston Zoo has got some really great setups but the one that really caught my attention was the Climbing Toad!

(Sorry the pics are a little fuzzy but I was trying to focus through glass with a point and shoot)

I think I'd really like to find out more about these guys and eventually have a few. Has anyone ever kept them or know where to get them? How about care and feeding info?

Green Ghost · #2 (**permalink**) 06-21-2008, 10:09 PM

What were they labelled as?

linda60 · #3 (**permalink**) 06-23-2008, 04:12 AM

There is a tree toad the yellow spotted climbing toad pedostibes hosii,that a bit like your pics but it's hard to tell,sorry i can't tell you where to get them as I am from the UK,do a search using that name to see if this is what you want.You should have no problems as the states in far ahead of us when it comes to reps and amphibs.

knighty · #4 (**permalink**) 06-23-2008, 12:14 PM

AH Ha some one else from the U.K!!!!

i have herd of climbing toads before, but the ones in my book look alot different to the pics in this thread. i would take linda60s advice and try googling the name.

alex1976 · #5 (**permalink**) 06-26-2008, 02:17 AM

I probably should have bothered to read the whole info note but my family was moving ahead of me and I was a little too eager to see everything else. I'll have to shoot my zoo an email to get more info. When I do, I'll be sure to post here.