The bowl with the river stones is where I’ll add the bottled spring water and they can soak. Now I just need some toads. 
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Awesome! We used to have Salamanders when I was growing up.
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Nice! I tried keeping baby salamanders when I was younger, but I couldn’t stop them from escaping over and over lol. Had to let them go lest they wind up lost forever in the house.
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I had the same problem with hamsters in high school. I’d hear a little pitter patter of tiny feet and then see one of them running under my bed. They lived in the room next to mine. I would let them run in the bathtub. They’d run up the slope in the side like it was a treadmill.
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We raised tadpoles in a washtub until they were full grown frogs. It was fascinating.
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You are going to have some happy toads 
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My hope is for 2-3 adult females. Fingers crossed!
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That’s a pretty nice set-up!
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Yeah, that’s pretty cool.
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It’s a zen garden for toads!..I kinda want to live there too
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Whoa! Toad paradise! How much do you charge them for a flat like that! 
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This is actually the lowest budget habitat I have ever made. In the past I spent hundreds on habitats but this one
Plastic Tub - $13 from Home Depot
Fake Plants - Few bucks at Salvation Army Thrift Store, few bucks clearance at Joann Fabrics
Cave - Old ceramic pitcher from my childhood turned on its side
Soaking Dish - $8 dog food bowl from PetSmart
Stones - Pilfered out of business parking lot landscaping
My only splurge was the substrate because its quality is important, so $30 organic potting soil mixed with $20 Eco Earth, but the amount will last me a year’s worth of change outs.
SO they can stay for free, this is the cheapest habitat ever lol.
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Make sure your toads are spayed or nuetered before you put them in their new home. You don’t need a hundred little frogs running around crying for milk evrey day.
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Well, that sounds like an amazing deal. Maybe I’ll go kiss a rando toad so I can turn into one and live there XD
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This is great! Good luck with your toads 
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I was exploring under my house one morning, bored and alone, so I took a large ax just in case that red and black banded snake’s brother might return with revenge for his death.
This is in California, so there is only a 1-2 foot crawlspace above the dirt, right after crawling in, I saw this 12" (?) long thing slithering right towards me…
and I can’t remember much else beyond the initial panic,
when I looked down I had chopped this poor salamander up into a billion pieces.
ewww…that’s the last time I go near that swap under this house.
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It looks really nice!
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That’s so cool. I don’t know anything about toads. What do you feed them?
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Thats awesome good job
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I’ve decided to start them off with something small like wax worms if they are smaller when I get them, but if/when they are big enough, I want to get them on a diet of nightcrawlers because the calcium/phosphorous and protein/fat ratios are good, will dust them calcium powder once per week to be extra safe. I have to check around the local bait shops to see how small of worms I can find to see when I can start introducing them into the diet.
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