Are these the EGGS of my TREE FROG???????

[Xquirrel]

This morning when i was cleaning my vivarium and washing the rock decors, I have found something like transparent jelly, and when i look at it more detailly, there were very tiny white bit of eggs in it.

HERE IS THE PHOTO OF THE EGGS:


so at first i doubt that if its an cricket egg, but NO, as i have saw pictures of cricket eggs in google, it is NOT cricket eggs or any insect eggs

those eggs are hidden inside the rock shades and are near the small pond. but the numbers of the eggs made me feel frustrated. my speices of frog is "Polypedates megacephalus "which is a tree frog from Hong Kong. And from wikipedia, it told me that they lay eggs in a foam or bubble and always comes to around 120 eggs at a time. but my frog didnt, it just lay jelly like substance and there are only around 20 eggs in there.

Is the age of the frog matter to the number of babies they have? mine are just about 4 months old! (as i raised them since they were tadpoles)

and at this young age having babies, will the percentage of hatching be very low?

this is the first time i have come across such an amazing thing, please forgive me if im asking stupid question. thankyou

[flybyferns]

This morning when i was cleaning my vivarium and washing the rock decors, I have found something like transparent jelly, and when i look at it more detailly, there were very tiny white bit of eggs in it.

HERE IS THE PHOTO OF THE EGGS:


so at first i doubt that if its an cricket egg, but NO, as i have saw pictures of cricket eggs in google, it is NOT cricket eggs or any insect eggs

those eggs are hidden inside the rock shades and are near the small pond. but the numbers of the eggs made me feel frustrated. my speices of frog is "Polypedates megacephalus "which is a tree frog from Hong Kong. And from wikipedia, it told me that they lay eggs in a foam or bubble and always comes to around 120 eggs at a time. but my frog didnt, it just lay jelly like substance and there are only around 20 eggs in there.

Is the age of the frog matter to the number of babies they have? mine are just about 4 months old! (as i raised them since they were tadpoles)

and at this young age having babies, will the percentage of hatching be very low?

this is the first time i have come across such an amazing thing, please forgive me if im asking stupid question. thankyou

Hello,
Not a stupid question, at all. Welcome to FF.
If you are certain about the age of your frog; it is too young to breed. The foam in which the eggs are laid is unmistakable. You would also see the frog in amplexus during the process of breeding, production of the foam egg nest, and egg laying.

I would consider the possibility of this being feces and parasitic eggs? Save the specimen and take it to a vet to have a fecal sample done.
It could be tiny undigested seeds, or insect parts? What do you feed your frog? It's best to have it check out.

Lynn

[Xquirrel]

Hello,
Not a stupid question, at all. Welcome to FF.
If you are certain about the age of your frog; it is too young to breed. The foam in which the eggs are laid is unmistakable. You would also see the frog in amplexus during the process of breeding, production of the foam egg nest, and egg laying.

I would consider the possibility of this being feces and parasitic eggs? Save the specimen and take it to a vet to have a fecal sample done.
It could be tiny undigested seeds, or insect parts? What do you feed your frog? It's best to have it check out.

Lynn

Hours later, another frog suddenly jumped into the pond and went to the rock decor. it sat there for like 10 minutes and after it left the decor, i saw jelly like substances without apparent white eggs. but when i used a spoon to scoop the thing, i saw transparent tiny eggs.
this time is transparent eggs??

this made me SO confused! so, is it supposed that the eggs develop from transparent to white???


To be accurate, they are 3 months old.

Ever since they grew from tadpoles to young adult frogs, i only fed them crickets and very ocasionally, mealworms.
when they were tadpoles, i fed them lettuce and bloodworm.
nothing else.

and all plants in my vivarium are non flowering plants and do not seem to produce seeds yet.
i use coco bark as substrate.
i have a small pond with no fish, just nothing but gravel as substrate.

one last thing, according to their behavior, they never poop in the rock hideout. they usually poop on the leaves which are very far away from the water source. these two suspected egg foam are inside the hideout which is very near to the pond.

[KingCam]

Hello, welcome to the forum. Your question was a good one, but those are not frog eggs Those appear to be snail eggs. Terrestrial snails usually lay many single eggs without the jelly substance, but aquatic snails lay eggs just like the ones you have pictured. You did find these under water, right?

[flybyferns]

Hello, welcome to the forum. Your question was a good one, but those are not frog eggs Those appear to be snail eggs. Terrestrial snails usually lay many single eggs without the jelly substance, but aquatic snails lay eggs just like the ones you have pictured. You did find these under water, right?

This is certainly a very good possibility.
Was your gravel substrate new?
What kind of plants?
Any - aquarium- water plants?

[Xquirrel]

Hello, welcome to the forum. Your question was a good one, but those are not frog eggs Those appear to be snail eggs. Terrestrial snails usually lay many single eggs without the jelly substance, but aquatic snails lay eggs just like the ones you have pictured. You did find these under water, right?

They were not found under water, but they really look like snail eggs in google search
and yeh, my frogs are too small to have babies......... and i separated those eggs in another container, and i found so many small snails in it later.
thankyou for answering me
and my question is resolved.

[KingCam]

They were not found under water, but they really look like snail eggs in google search ..... and i separated those eggs in another container, and i found so many small snails in it later.

Strange that they weren't under the water, perhaps the area was wet enough for an aquatic snail to venture onto.

thankyou for answering me
and my question is resolved.

My pleasure, sorry I didn't have better news to give on your eggs :P Good luck!

[BerryNight]

Wow thats odd! I've never seen snail eggs! I would've never guessed!