no food and no pooping would be a very good sign there is something wrong.

I also forgot to ask, what are your temps in there? how about humidity?

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Water stays between 68-72, ambient air is room temperature (@ 72) and the tank is in my dining room, humidity stays pretty high since I have a full hood on it. The hood came with the aquarium. I don't have a hygrometer in there, but just guessing, I'd say the humidity is around 80 or 90 %.

well that sounds right.

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It makes me crazy that I don't know what's causing it. If it's something serious, I'd like to be able to do something before it kills my toads.

What if it's just something like a shedding toad? I noticed my original toad's color is a lot duller than the new ones, and it was doing some pretty funky stuff the other night. It looked like it was yawning and dry-heaving, but it never puked or anything. Do they leave their skin behind like snakes? How would I tell if one of them is trying to shed?

YES, that is how they shed. They flex their skin and bloat and flex and you may not see it, since its clear, but they eat thier skin. It looks like they are yawning. over and over. Very good for them. And yes, they may color change when this happens.

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So hopefully the slime will go away when the shedding is finished. How long of an ordeal is this usually? Any idea?

i dont know because I have tree frogs, and not fire-bellied toad. But usually my tree frogs won't eat the day before a shed and it only takes them about 30 minutes for the shedding process to end. They also always shed right when they wake up.

As long as your guys are eating and pooping and active I wouldn't worry quite yet. I'm actually getting FBTs in about a week (see my construction thread) so I'm going to learn from your slime fest.

WAIT A MINUTE
possible one of your girls laid eggs???

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Eggs?! What? Surely not! I just put them in there last Saturday! I'm going to check everything very carefully when I get home!

check for center spots in the slime.

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ok since I couldn't find a care sheet on the RID I tried google...



The Care and Raising of Oriental Firebellied Toads
"Firebellied toad eggs look like small, clear, gelatinous spheres containing a smaller black or gray ball inside, much in the manner of our first idealizations of atomic structure. The "nucleus" of the egg will elongate over the next few days, eventually revealing itself to be a small, not-quite-developed tadpole. Keep an eye on the eggs. When the tadpoles start periodically wiggling, they will soon hatch. This is a good time to move the adults out of the tank - they will eat the offspring. Turn off the filter as well; tadpoles can't swim all that well for the first few weeks of their life. Filters will suck them in or bash their little pre-toad heads on the rocks."

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