Golden toad led bachelors to attack amplectant pairs and form what has been described as a "writhing masses of toad balls". During the 1977 and 1982 seasons, males outnumbered females by over 8 to 1 at breeding pools. Each toad couple produced 200–400 eggs each week for the six-week mating period, with each egg approximately 3 mm in diameter. The eggs of the golden toad, black and tan spheres, were deposited in small pools often no more than one-inch deep. Tadpoles emerged in a matter of days, but required another four or five weeks for metamorphosis. During this period, they were highly
Toad (software) Toad (software) Toad is a database management toolset from Quest Software that database developers, database administrators, and data analysts use to manage both relational and non-relational databases using SQL. There are Toad products for developers and DBAs, which run on Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2 (LUW & z/OS), SAP and MySQL, as well as, a Toad product for data preparation, which supports most data platforms. Toad solutions enable data professionals to automate processes, minimize risks, and cut project delivery timelines. Jim McDaniel (aka "TOADman"), a practicing Oracle DBA, originally designed Toad for his own use in the mid-1990s. He called