ACF Breeding and Rearing updates

[Otter96]

Well I haven't posted on this forum in a while but here's some updates on what I've been doing. Been into ACF so i got a few different kinds of juvies and a golden albino female and normal albino male adult. I've bred them twice already and tadpole rearing has been a breeze. Got about 500 tads total in less than a month. Eggs are laid and then hatch 3 days later. Currently trying to make a trade of albinos for some wildtypes with a college, or might just try to get the college's morph or they will be euthanized. To breed them I simply separate the female overnight into a 30gal and add the male the next day. I know when to add the male because the female starts laying on her own. The male fertilizes them at the end though after he finally lets go of the female and i remove the female. Then after hes done with that I take him out and then wait a few days and i have tads swimming about. Its weird but not unheard of for a female to lay on her own and then a male to fertilize unfertilized eggs on his own. Both of which actually happen. I have no special conditioning to breed them other than separate them over the period of one night and add them back together the next morning. She lays about every 2 weeks. The tads are a combo of normal albinos, golden albinos, and dark eyed/possibly reticulated albinos. Also have been raising some different salamander species. If anyone wants some ACF juvies later on hit me up and i will have some for sale.

[Mentat]

Wow that's a lots of tadpoles . What species of ACF are you raising? Good luck with your projects !

[Jenste]

Her laying and being mated every two weeks is not healthy for her. You need to give her time to build up fat and energy stores again between breedings. She may expel eggs on her own but that is not as taxing as having a male latched on to her squeezing out her eggs.

You should really give her several weeks between layings for both her and her offsprings health.

[Otter96]

Yeah I know. I'm trying not to over breed her. The first time on April 3rd when they spawned was a complete accident actually. Second time was semi-purposeful on April 19. I was moving her to a new tank to breed a little later on and she started laying and I didn't want the eggs to go to waste, so i just dropped the male in to. Thought him fertilizing the eggs the female had already laid without him was a bit cool too. Also I feed them both high protein pellets to make sure they are nice, fat and healthy.

[Otter96]

Xenopus laevis btw.