My Epipedobates anthonyi have just laid a new batch of eggs, Just a week after the last batch.

I was asked if I could take pictures of the progress of the last ones, but as they were already a few days old I said I would wait for the next batch.

I intend to leave them with the male for 24hrs to ensure proper fertilisation, more of a just in case than is probably needed. I only do this as I have read that that is what others do that remove the eggs to petri dishes. I have no idea if it is actually needed, but I will do it anyway. If you have any thoughts on this practice, I would love to hear them.

After the initial 24 hrs have passed I will transfer them to a sterilised petri dish. I will use the time between now an then to setup and test my camera system/software as I hope to produce a time-lapse video of their development. I hope this will be of high enough quality that many people will find it interesting and informative. I know I could just take a series of photo's (which I will also have as the software does that at the same time), but I hope that this will be a better method and much more interesting. If anyone has tried this I would love to hear from you about any pitfalls or anything you think will be helpful to me.
I intend to take one frame every 10 minutes both day and night, the camera I am using has a built in light which I can adjust the intensity of. The camera has a maximum magnification of 200x so to help keep a perspective on size, I hope to include a scale. I have no idea how many eggs I will manage to get into the frame, but I will try to get a few just in case of duds.

With the time interval I have selected and the framerate of the final video, the video will be quite short, about 70 seconds give ot take with a frame size of 640 x 480 if I recall correctly.

I will keep you all updated on how this progresses, maybe even post a sneak peek pic or two.

This will be the first time I have attempted to do this, so I have no idea if it will work as planned.
But I hope it goes well and will be a great video and be of great use to other people.
If it works, I know I will enjoy it immensely.