Good luck! Your tank sounds awesome! I hope to see the little guys that make it!
Re: Trying a "Natural Selection" Breeding Method
Good luck! Your tank sounds awesome! I hope to see the little guys that make it!
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Re: Trying a "Natural Selection" Breeding Method
Pictures of the tank, full tank shot.
Oldest tadpoles - about 2.5-3 weeks old
About 1.5-2 weeks old
About 4 days old
About 1-2 day old eggs
72 Gallon Bow - ACF and GF tank.
26 Gallon Bow - ACF tank.
20 Gallon Long - ACF tank.
"If there were an invisible cat in that chair, the chair would look empty. But the chair does look empty; therefore there is an invisible cat in it." C.S. Lewis, Four Loves, 1958
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Very nice tank Jen! Like the tads pics, you can see great detail of their bodies. Think this idea could work better for you.
When you moved your tads to their tank in the past, was that tank water all from the breeding tank or different? Thank you!
Remember to take care of the enclosure and it will take care of your frog
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I've done fresh /new water, parents water, and mixtures lol.
72 Gallon Bow - ACF and GF tank.
26 Gallon Bow - ACF tank.
20 Gallon Long - ACF tank.
"If there were an invisible cat in that chair, the chair would look empty. But the chair does look empty; therefore there is an invisible cat in it." C.S. Lewis, Four Loves, 1958
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Such great detail in the photos!! Thanks for sharing!
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keep us posted on your success i as well am trying to breed FBTs however I believe mine wont start breeding until november. They are still too young.
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So far so good. Everyday I get excited to find the "big" tads in the tank. These are the largest I have raised to date so here's hoping!
72 Gallon Bow - ACF and GF tank.
26 Gallon Bow - ACF tank.
20 Gallon Long - ACF tank.
"If there were an invisible cat in that chair, the chair would look empty. But the chair does look empty; therefore there is an invisible cat in it." C.S. Lewis, Four Loves, 1958
Re: Trying a "Natural Selection" Breeding Method
Haven't bred frogs yet; but my experience with fish is never to move eggs, unless you keep them covered in water and the water in new tank is moved 100% from the tank they were in. Because of that it's a lot easier to move parents or raise fry with parents.Originally Posted by Jenste
If you still have the guppies and tetras in tank and the tads fit in their mouths, you will loose tads to fish too.
Remember to take care of the enclosure and it will take care of your frog
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so with all of this said how much water in the tank should be sufficent for one clutch of FBT eggs as well as when they turn into tads? I think my overall water volume is close to two gallons. I need to know this because when my FBT start breeding i will have between 20-25 breeders. I already know i will have to use something much larger or use multiple tanks i just need to know roughly how much water volume to use per breeding pair. i would hate to have over crowding and not be able to move them after its to late.
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My camera is charging but tomorrow I will try and take a video of the tank. It will have to be really early (if I wake up early enough) or later after the sun sets. My livingroom has a large bow front window and it faces the south - any and all sunlight will cause a slight glare.
72 Gallon Bow - ACF and GF tank.
26 Gallon Bow - ACF tank.
20 Gallon Long - ACF tank.
"If there were an invisible cat in that chair, the chair would look empty. But the chair does look empty; therefore there is an invisible cat in it." C.S. Lewis, Four Loves, 1958
Re: Trying a "Natural Selection" Breeding Method
With all my batches in the past - aside from maybe my first attempt at breeding Xenopus Laevis, I found it best to always move the eggs.Haven't bred frogs yet; but my experience with fish is never to move eggs, unless you keep them covered in water and the water in new tank is moved 100% from the tank they were in. Because of that it's a lot easier to move parents or raise fry with parents.
If you still have the guppies and tetras in tank and the tads fit in their mouths, you will loose tads to fish too
I always have breeding, planned breeding, in tanks that have a heavy planting especially floating plants such as water wisteria as it aids in easy transferal.
Even when they are just in the clinging stage, about 1 day from hatching from the eggs, they are WAY too big to be eaten by a neon or guppy. They are nearly 2-2.5 times the size of guppy newborn fry when they leave the egg. Even if there is some tadpoles that manage to be eaten or killed, it's part of the "natural selection" method I am trying.
The largest tads that are about 3 weeks old are nearly the size of my adult neons and are larger than the guppy fry who are even older than them.
When I say I have my water area densely planted, I mean I can visualize only about 20-30% of the space in the area between the Amazon swords, the many many many cambombas and wisterias. Only in one spot in the front of my tank, if you duck down to the substrate level and look under a piece of driftwood can you see to the back wall of the tank below the water level.
Seeing how they are, up to this point, thriving by presumably feeding off of plant matter, algae, etc, I believe that the other batches failed in the "sterile", newly set up tanks as they lacked natural organisms to feed the tadpoles.
72 Gallon Bow - ACF and GF tank.
26 Gallon Bow - ACF tank.
20 Gallon Long - ACF tank.
"If there were an invisible cat in that chair, the chair would look empty. But the chair does look empty; therefore there is an invisible cat in it." C.S. Lewis, Four Loves, 1958
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