Individual Stenopelmatus fuscus will do well in captivity if kept in a fair-sized, humid enclosure with deep substrate, but I havn't heard of any captive breeding or egg laying either. A possibility could be that it is so hard to recreate their root-filled, subterranean habitat with the type of soil they prefer to burrow into and make the underground chambers for egg-laying in.
Their wild diet is so varied, I’m hesitant to try to keep one. I live on 200 acres of Oak and redwood forest in N. California, and we have them everywhere. We talked about trying to keep one in our visitor’s “zoo” (we keep some examples of local small animals to show folks in the retreat center. They get rotated and released back to where we find them, but even so, I don’t feel confident trying to keep these cuties fed. Do you know any thing about feeding them in captivity?
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