Fire Belly Toad for Sale

Fire belly toad for sale are very brightly colored, with an array of reds, oranges, yellows, and greens underneath their black splotches.  These little guys make an adorable chirping croak and love to be in water.  Usually only 2-3” long, they live up to 5 years old if taken care of properly.  A happy, healthy toad is active, alert, has crystal clear eyes, healthy-looking skin, breathes easily, eats normally, and is hopping about as well as swimming freely.

Fire Bellied Toad Diet

These toads like a consistent schedule and should eat around the same time each day.  Being insectivores, the fire belly toad for sale  should be fed a balanced food mix of small live insects such as crickets and meal or wax worms.  Because they are small themselves, they only need to be fed every other day with vitamin and calcium supplements a couple times a week.  Try to keep the food on the dry land area of the habitat.  Do not let your toad come in contact with soaps, detergents, or other harmful, artificial substances.

Fire Bellied Toad Habitat

For a healthy home, the habitat should be an appropriate size for exercise; it should have a type of substrate like coconut fibers, moss, bark, and no artificial turf or gravel.  Water should also be readily available for these frogs who love to swim.  Some land should be dry while some land may be made moist for variety for your toad.  The average comfortable temperature for the day is 78-83°F and is 62-67°F for the night.  A UV light may also be installed as long as the toad still has dark places to go and hide.  They also enjoy the company of other Fire-bellied toads, but not other amphibians.

The fire-bellied toads are a group of six species of small frogs (most species typically no longer than 1.6 in or 4.1 cm) belonging to the genus Bombina.

The name “fire-bellied” is derived from the brightly colored red- or yellow-and-black patterns on the toads’ ventral regions, which act as aposematic coloration, a warning to predators of the toads’ reputedly foul taste. The other parts of the toads’ skins are green or dark brown. When confronted with a potential predator, these toads commonly engage in an Unkenreflex, “Unken-” being the combining form of “Unke”, German for fire-bellied toad. In the Unkenreflex, the toad arches its back, raising its front and back legs to display the aposematic coloration of its ventral side.

Biology

The female of the species typically lays 80–300 eggs that can be found hanging off plant stems. The offspring develop in pools or puddles. Their metamorphosis is complete within a few weeks, peaking in July–August. The toadlets attain a length of 12–15 mm. The eggs, laid in August, metamorphose only after the winter, with the toadlets attaining a length of 3–5 cm. These toadlets still have white bellies.

Tadpoles eat mainly algae and higher plants. The young toads and the adult toads consume insects, such as flies and beetles, shrimp and larvae; but also annelid worms and terrestrial arthropods. Fire-bellied toads are sometimes active during the day, but are more so during the night. The mating call of the male sounds like a dog’s bark, rather than the typical drawn out croaking groan.

Distribution and habitat

The species can be found both in Europe and in areas in Asia with a moderate climate.

All kinds of toads prefer habitats of stagnant water, which they are reluctant to leave. The fire-bellied toad lives primarily in a continental climate in standing water or calmer backwaters of rivers or ponds. The species can also be found in flood pools and in floodplains. The yellow-bellied species typically live at higher altitude, where they are primarily found in small bodies of water like ponds or water-filled ruts, often near small mountain streams. The Asian species also live in small bodies of water and can live at altitudes of over 3000 meters.