My D. leucomelas tadpoles

[Happy Frog]

Great pics. Congrats on the tads. Nice tortoise. How're the tads doing these days.

They are all doing great. I've got about 24 of them. They seem to be growing exponentially every day. No loses and the the first batch of four are huge. Here are a few pics...



I quit looking for eggs and pulling for now. I've just got too many tads to take care. It will give the males a chance to do the whole natural thing. I've gone into their enclosure and put large water bottle caps in various places so they can have a shallow pool to deposit the tads.

My biggest worry is when they start morphing, getting the back then front legs. Every night I try and read up about that. Supposedly that's the most critical time in their care.

Yeah, my tortoise is sweet. Here in central CA the weather is already warm(80's) and I've shut down all the heat sources in her enclosure. It's still dropping down into the fifties at night but she can take that.