Quote Originally Posted by Mentat View Post
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 .
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.
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. The depth is about 8-10 inches depending on substrate.

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.