What do we have here?

Jade · #1 12-01-2011, 07:03 PM

First of all, I live in Kuna, ID, near Boise. My son caught a tadpole about 5 months ago and it invariably turned into something, frog or toad I'm not sure. We had two, sadly one of them passed. I'm not sure what I'm doing here. I've only ever had a snake. I can't seem to identify what kind it is, or how to care for it. I have noticed that he/she likes to hide under the little tree thing, she does swim sometimes, and she likes to dig a little wallowing hole to, well, wallow in. Oh, and she eats crickets like their candy! She's smaller than a penny, dark green with olive stripes and warts. Any advice would be great! Thank you

Jade · #2 12-08-2011, 11:42 PM

Thanks for your responses guys. Really helpful....

Pavel · #3 12-10-2011, 09:08 PM

You need to chill, Jade. This forum is rather slow. Additionally, if no one is sure what you have, they probably felt typing in "I don't know" to be a waste of time. I know I certainly have no idea. Have you tried Google? If you do you will get a bunch of sites to check. Took about 30secs to find a bunch of sites that have a good chance of being useful. Here ya go (the research is up to you, however):

Illeis koebelei - Google Search

Hope they prove useful.

TheGecko · #4 01-15-2012, 01:41 PM

I can't guarantee I'm correct, but it looks to me like you have a spadefoot toad there. If that's the case, than you have the wrong setup. They prefer to dig into the soil.
Look up Spadefoot Toad and see if that's what you have. Like I said I could be wrong, but it looks just like a spadefoot, and I know western spadefoots can be found in that area.