New home, new babies

[boaman]

nice tank. love the lilypads.

[FriedrichsFrogs]

that tank is the shiz! great ideas for my next tank setup. how often do u have to clean a tank like that? do u keep a filter in it?

[Marco Caccianiga]

Thank you for the replies!
There's a filter under the bark in the rear right. I change half of the water every month; some further change occurs because of the monsoon misting system which adds clean water daily. I make some deeper cleaning occasionally and once a year a complete cleaning, also of te terrestrial part. Plants help a lot in keeping the water clean and stop algae. Basically, is a low maintenance tank..
PS my babies are growing.. rear legs are almost done! I'll let you know when metamorphosis is over!

[Sunshine]

Will you post pics of the babies?

[Marco Caccianiga]

Here they are!
Here some pictures of my tadpoles at various ages (now the legs are bigger, almost complete) and one of the toadlets of the previous breeding (hatched in july, metamorphosed in august).

I tried to count them, but I gave up.. they were 90, more or less, but now they move too fast!

[Sunshine]

Awww! They are cute! What are you going to do with all of the babies?

[FrogFriend]

Wish you could do my tank! I keep trying to find ways to make my tank more FBT friendly and low maintenance. Will have to keep this in mind.

[MantisMan]

hey nice job with breeding them! i too bred mine and posted pics of their life cycle here! they r getting ready to hibernate again even though moaper looks like she doesnt need to to lay more eggs but its for good measure
toadlet mortality is high but i'd really like to learn your method and can u please send me maybe 5 or 10 toadlets? i'd like to get some new blood in my group...

[Marco Caccianiga]

Thank you! I have some mortality among tadpoles, particularly when they eat too much too fast. For metamorphosis, I start to lower the water level ad to put flat stones when tads fully develop hind legs (I did it yesterday..) and just wait. When they develop front legs and start to stay outside the water I let them alone till the tail is gone. Then I start to feed them with wingles fruitflies and their larvae. I keep the setup simple and open so they can easily spot the preys, at the beginning they are not good at all in hunting. If they are too many I move them in separate tanks, particularly if someone is weaker and less able to hunt. After one month more or less I start with small crickets.
That's all.. I have the highest mortality with tadpoles, I lost only one toadlet.
It would be nice to exchange some "blood".. But I think sending toadlets from Italy to US would be hard...

[MantisMan]

yeah i didnt know an italian started the thread at first lol
i thought it was the guy from arizona who posted in this topic a few times