a dozen emerged tiny toadlets. they huddle in groups and have found their safe spots in the tank. most have tail remnants.
i wave something in front of the most advanced toadlet. it snaps at...
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a dozen emerged tiny toadlets. they huddle in groups and have found their safe spots in the tank. most have tail remnants.
i wave something in front of the most advanced toadlet. it snaps at...
now every time i visit my tank, i count the little frogs.
each time, i count more. it is the week of mass emergence.
lol.
fire belly toads have little white dots at the tip of their toes,...
here is a photo of the first toadlet to emerge. the little one is many many days ahead of the rest.
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you cannot see it in this photo but the little one still has quite a tail.
i...
One of the tadpoles is far more advanced than the rest. It has fully formed front and rear legs and is now 'emerging'. It spends its time near the surface, breathing air most of the time now.
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Hands up! Dont squeeze!
The biggest tadpoles now have little 'nubs' where their front legs will emerge. Their rear legs have emerged and are growing and i've seen them kick once in a while. They still swim side-to-side...
spinach seems to be a great tadpole food. just wilt a few leaves, throw it in the tank. high in calcium.
algae pellets should be a good food with a wide spectrum of nutrients.
that's what I...
huh. interesting. i'm on my second year of growing fbt frogs and i have yet to see a defective one.
when they emerge, I feed them fruit flies dusted with the 'repashy calcium'. it's a...
I think I found the magic command line option that keeps the live stream going. Previously, it would stop within about an hour of me starting it up.
They are all doing great!
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oh good lord. Bloat!
my understanding of 'bloat' is that it is a secondary symptom. Something is going on that is preventing the frog from controlling its own fluids, and it blows up like a...
the biggest tadpoles now have tiny little back legs just budding out from the base of their tail. super cute little tiny legs. soon they will be kicking around rather than just swimming. next is...
this is a resilient little frog, it seems.
but if its a male, it'll never amplexus again with a broken front leg. awwww.
One thing i've noticed about the tadpoles...when they get large enough, they eat all the snail eggs they can find.
The tadpole poop, after a snail egg meal, ends up just like a string of eggs.
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An easy way to clean up your water is with partial water changes. Use a product that removes chlorine, add it to your tap water, let the water sit for a while to equalize in temperature. Then drain...
The thing about a filter is how, after a while, a bacterial cycle gets established which gets rid of ammonia and nitrites.
It can take a month for the good bacteria to set up shop.
If you change...
I find that growing tadpoles can foul the water more than any fish.
I have a "Hydor 150" which is a pump designed for a 20-40 gallon tank. It's pumping about 11 gallons. Filters get changed...
Here's a better URL:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTz-07cEgvFDOt0UzlVeMRg/live
No, not to worry. They can, at will, change their color from charcoal to bright green. Mine are often very dark. And yet there's mornings where I greet a bunch of bright bright green frogs.
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I cannot promise how long this will last...but I think I got it working:
LIVE video of my frog tank on YouTube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuHdSE6YCA0
well, there are no more clingers tadpoles as of yesterday. they are all swimmer tadpoles now and all eating constantly.
food:
I toss a few leaves of spinach into a pan of boiling water, wilt it,...
well gee. maybe a bunch of small fruit flies is better if you have a timid frog. at least froggy will get a few.
my subadults are mostly all capable of eating adult sized crickets. so i get the...
try feeding them a big cricket.
one cricket later, frog is fed and full.
well, the hatching appears to be over. maybe a hundred clinger tadpoles. impossible to count accurately. almost all of the eggs hatched.
my tank will be swarming with activity in a few weeks....
I love to feed my tank crickets one-by-one. I grab one with tongs. Then I drop it amongst a set of hungry fbts. sometimes it seems that the cricket drops straight down a frog's throat head first...
One minute movie of the underwater half of my frog tank!
https://youtu.be/W8gSAX8AIO4
You can see a few of the 'first generation' tadpoles, at about three weeks of age. eating algae on the...