New home, new 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

[Ribbity]

Hi i was wondering how deep the water in your tank is?

great job BTW!

[Marco Caccianiga]

Hi
In the main tank, water is c 10 cm deep, but there are lot of stones, wood and plants. My toads seem to like to touch alwys something solid with their toes... The toadlet tank has only 2-5 cm of water, with many stones.
BTW, Last update: metamorphosis is over: starting from 99 eggs, I have finally 70 toadlets!

[kroberts009]

in the very beginning you mentioned something about two golden fbt's, you didnt literally mean they were golden in color right? you meant... lol their breeding success?