Yet more eggs & live babies!

laurie

laurie

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It is good I am going to Florida, cause I need to run away from home. First my quad laid eggs, then a beardie, now one of the veileds and my horny toad laid 10 babies last night. Soon I will live in a nursery! What have I done???
Here are the baby horny toads.
 

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I have always wanted a 'horny toad'..:rolleyes: Tell us more! I know they need ants to eat and like it hot and give birth to live babies, how long have you had yours?

I think they may be illegal for me to keep since they are native to the East side of the State, unless I think I can prove they were not taken from the wild.
 
Oh My god... I love them.

ARe they hard to keep?

There was a supposed CB one at my last local reptile show that they said ate crickets.
I wish I knew if they were telling the truth
 
I want one I want one!!!!!!!!!!!!:D I remember catching them in New Mexico when I was younger. Ive always been fascinated with them. Congratulations!
 
These things are uber cool! Laurie..you ever get yours to shoot blood out of his eye at you?

There is a wild population of these thriving in south Florida. I forget where exactly, but evidently this is the only place they live. It is a large sandy lot with plenty of ants for them to eat.

Your hubby is gonna love you for leaving him alone with all these kids. LOL
 
Wow! I haven't seen newborn Phrynosoma platyrhinos before. I had one of these when I was a kid that was caught in Oklahoma. Do you know what region that the parents are from? What are you feeding them? I'm pretty sure that they are found throughout the southern U.S. and South America as well. Congrats!
 
Wow, Laurie! I didn't know you had the horny's! Like everyone else, I want one! You must have figured out how to feed them a healthy diet other than ants?
 
Julirs said:
I want a Horny too! How do you house them and what are general care requirements?
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They are a bit of a challenge. First I had to go to the stat of Montana and explain I had been given a horny toad, which is illegal to capture in Montana. As I am not the person who caprured it (and I am not) they recorded that I have it, told me winter is coming and if I turned the babies out they would die, so good luck. I have a legal horny toad and 10 babies. Yea.

Mom eats, crickets, phoenix worms and the required ants. Horny toads need ants to live. The babies are too small for ants, so the are currently eating fruit flys I had for my baby veileds. But soom I will need to start dusting the flys with folic & critic acid. They will also start on small crickets soon. Much like a cham these guys do not like to be handled, don't like loud noise, and don't want to see a lot of humans. They need a fairly hot temp & I give them UVB but no one knows if they need it. Currently my babies are in a dish pan in the cham room where it is warm. Now we start hoping.

Anyone who has more info is good. Aja has saved my with info so far.
 
Now I don't want one! I can't imagine that I am thinking they are more complicated than chams! But it sounds like they are! :)
 
Too bad you couldn't find a grad student doing research on them, then they could take them off your hands. :rolleyes:
 
Laurie, Congrats on all the eggs and babies. Those little horny toad babies are adorable. Your poor husband and my husband thought he had it rough when I went out of town for a week and he had to care for two chams and a dog. lol
 
Those Phrynosoma babies just rule! Definitely one of the cooler things I've seen in a long while.

Have fun with them!

T
 
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