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My summer with eggs, tads, and froglets
Well, this has been my first years with the frogs laying eggs and them slowly making their way to the big boy froglet tank.
I decided it would be fun to share my experience with the process and some pics.
First Eggs
The first eggs I had found was from my Dendrobates truncatus (yellow stripe) pair but they laid them on the glass and the eggs we not fertilized by the male. These frogs have not laid eggs since.
Whoa, Tads
My next experience with eggs came from my Dendrobates leucomelas pair.
The male calls every morning and these frogs have been the most active with leaving eggs and moving tads out of the three pairs of frogs I have.
The first eggs I found from the Leucs were placed in a bromeliad and when I realized they were there I was a nervous wreck in regards to moving the eggs, and caring for them properly. The eggs already had tads forming and moving around in the eggs.
I pulled the eggs using a some camping stainless steel spoons being careful to scrape slowly under the eggs and move them into the spoon I held below them. I then placed the eggs onto a leaf and place the leaf into small containers with lids. Notice the containers are the side dish ones from Kentucky Fried Chicken :-)
I made a batch of tadpole water using spring water and Tetra Blackwater extract. You really have to add plenty of extract to get the dark tea color but it works great.
Swimmers
Once the tads were off the leaf and swimming on their own in the container, i made up a similar batch of water and filled to 1 in deep in larger Tupperware containers, added some leaf liter (Live Oak Leaf) and placed the tadpoles into the container.
I fed them Tetra Dried Seaweed, Tetra Tropical Fish Flake, and Tadpole bites once a week.
Next Batch
Within weeks, my Dendrobates tinctorius – Bakhuis Mountain pair decided to join in the fun and although i never heard any calling, the eggs starting arriving and dad was happily fertilizing them.
I followed the same routine as with the Dendrobates leucomelas and made a separate Tupperware container to place the tads into.
As the tads grew, I changed out 1/3 of the water with a fresh batch weekly and continued to feed only once per week.
They grew at different rates, but I think were popping out the front legs about two to three weeks after i saw the rear legs begin to appear.
Moving on up
Once i felt that the tad was getting ready to walk out of the water, i would move them to a intermediate container that had plenty of moss and water to allow for the little one to walk out.
Time to learn to eat
It is pretty exciting coming home to find one has absorbed the tail and is now moving between the water and land.
I would usually leave them in the intermediate tank for a few days and then move them into the big boy froglet tank where they can eat springtails and calcium or supervite dusted fruit flies.
The froglet big boy tank is an 18x18x18 Exo-Terra and presently is housing both of the species of froglets. In some of the photos, the froglets look way bigger then their actual size, especially the Dendrobates tinctorius – Bakhuis Mountain froglets which are so tiny.
Going forward
They are hearty, all looking plum and healthy (except one which has a leg from the knee down that either broke or never properly grew out) and I have more tads to grow out and move their way up into the Exo-Terra.
I will eventually have to split them all up into separate tank but that's the fun part right, making vivariums and moving them in :-)
As for the one with the deformed leg, he is the boldest of the group and gets around as if nothing is different so he will probably become my favorite of the group.
Don
Originally Posted by deranged chipmunk
