Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
I'm in awe. Particularly since you're still so young and have accomplished things most of us will never. Thank you for the video. I am curious about the tadpoles - just how big are they and how large are they before metamorphosis?
Right now they are somewhere in between Gosner stages 27 and 33 (there's a lot of variation within the group) so according to Mantellas by Mark Staniszewski they are less than 25 mm in length. I'm guessing the average in this group is about 20mm based on this information. I'm not sure how big they will be when they metamorphose out, but Milotynpanum is the smallest known species of Mantella and they morph out around 4mm, while viridis morph out around 12mm. Crocea are closer in size to milotympanum so if I had to guess I'd say 6-9mm if we assume that tads morph out proportional to their adult size.

The adults are F1's from Devins frogs so they look pretty much identical to the pictures on Mantella Frogs. I'll try to get a decent pic of mine soon, because their flashmarks are pretty impressive for CB frogs.