Mirrorscale Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 Went to collect some duckweed out it's container this morning and found a dirty big cane toad doing laps in the container. I was getting it to feed to the goldfish but now I'm not sure if I should. Have rinsed the weed off and put it in some clean water but I wouldn't mind some advice on if I should. Worse case scenario is chucking it on the compost heap and starting the regrowing process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellows Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 Not sure mate about if they would affect plants but I know some one whose dog got sick through the week and they put it down to cane toads had been in the dogs water dish so if not sure I'd start again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirrorscale Posted February 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 You're probably right. Won't hurt the garden but would hate to lose the fish. Thanks for the advice. Off to the compost heap it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grubby Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 Raise the container up over 30 cm, so they can't get in. I killed 6 last night with detoll/metho in a spray bottle. Quick and effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirrorscale Posted February 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 Yeah I think some cane toad collection nights are on the cards. Going to go and build up some brick pillars and make them high enough that they're going to need to learn to pole vault if they want to get in. So annoying to have to compost the duckweed but what can you do. Lesson learnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tristan Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 Yeah I think some cane toad collection nights are on the cards. Going to go and build up some brick pillars and make them high enough that they're going to need to learn to pole vault if they want to get in. So annoying to have to compost the duckweed but what can you do. Lesson learnt. you can have a bunch of my duckweed if you want... i have more than you can poke a stick at haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquaholic99 Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 The poison glands on a cane toad are the 2 rough spots where imaginary ears would be. The poison is a white sticky secretion. So unless your fish eat a cane toad (or tadpoles), you don't have to worry about your duck weed poisoning your fish. If that were the case, there wouldn't be any fish left in creeks & dams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grubby Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 Rainbow fish will suck the casing off the eggs, rendering them unviable. Another plus for the mighty Rainbows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirrorscale Posted February 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 Thanks for the offer Tristan. If you a little closer to me I'd take you up on that for sure. And yes, The poison glands I knew about but just didn't know if the toad was maybe stressed and releasing anything into the water that may hurt the fish so I wanted to be safer rather than sorry later. Cool info about the rainbows. Never knew they did that. I've now changed the container to a much bigger/higher storage container, I think it's one of those 5o litre or so ones and have put it on top of two rows of bricks to add to the height. They'd have to be seriously desperate and cleaver to get into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lictoga Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 Toads can be clever, Iv seen them stack themselves to get to bee hives and eat all the bees cooling the hive on a summer night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirrorscale Posted February 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 Hmmn. I'm looking at getting a mesh cover tomorrow so that should sort them out. By the time I've finished toad proofing this container they will not only need to pole vault to get on it but learn how to use wire cutters to get in lol. Might add another layer or two of bricks to the height just to frustrate them either further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donny@ageofaquariums Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 Toads only tend to release their toxins when they are stressed. Doubt they would heavily contaminate a water source they are just having a chilled out soak in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainbowrunner Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 Ive had them sit in the waterfall for days with no harm to fish 30cm is more than enough to stop them as long as its vertical I wouldnt use a mesh cover because I like the frogs to be able to get in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirrorscale Posted February 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2015 Well thank you everyone for all the input. Certainly puts my mind at rest and I know more than I did. I haven't added any extra's onto to it so I will just wait and see. Froggies can get in and out and Toadies shouldn't be able to. The toads will just have to go find other places to go and do their nightly laps. I certainly appreciate everyone's help. Cheers Guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquaholic99 Posted February 17, 2015 Report Share Posted February 17, 2015 50 cm height is the minimum recommended by anti toad groups but I would use 60 cm. 25mm mesh size will allow frogs through but stop toads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyfish Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 I caught a couple of huge cane toads at night and put them in a big white bucket at least 400mm high with wide mesh on top and in the morning they had gone.. climbed out. Have seen them piled 3 high on top of each other to eat the bees at night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grubby Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 Dunno about everyone else but we have been getting a lot of Juvenile Cane toads around our place. Haven't seen a big ones for weeks, usually get about 6 or 7 juvies a night. No problem they still die just as easy with a bit of detol/metho mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heintz.G Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 Dunno about everyone else but we have been getting a lot of Juvenile Cane toads around our place. Haven't seen a big ones for weeks, usually get about 6 or 7 juvies a night. No problem they still die just as easy with a bit of detol/metho mix. I've noticed the same thing up my way this season, no adults but lots of youngies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam07 Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 We still got plenty of big ones around here at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
