Update: My D. tinctorius azureus tadpoles

[Happy Frog]

Here are some pics of the first tadpole to come out of the water and the rearing container. The tadpole seems like it's taking on the mother's coloring. That's her in the first picture.

After the tadpoles develop all four legs I move them into these Sterilite containers. I learned this from a poster on DD. I like this method because I could never figure out the logistics of setting up tilted fruit fly cups. I can also stack these. I normally keep the tadpoles in plastic food containers from the dollar store or in 16 oz. cups till they pop out all four legs.

After I see the tadpole climbing up on the side of the container I leave it in there for another day or two and remove it once the tail is a nub.

[Mentat]

Hi Bryan! The tads look good and the mom's coloration is awesome ! I went ahead and removed the out of focus photo from attachment file .

[Happy Frog]

Hi Bryan! The tads look good and the mom's coloration is awesome ! I went ahead and removed the out of focus photo from attachment file .

Thanks.

I forgot to mention that as soon as the tadpoles develop four legs and I move them into that container, I only add enough water to conver them. Maybe about a 1/2". Also, I build up a little bank of spaghnum moss on one side. In the picture above, all that's in there is the moss, Indian almond leaves and Java moss. The leaves and Java moss are only in there for cover and for the froglet to crawl up on. Once the tads develop all four legs they have already stopped eating and their mouth structure has slowly been changing from a rasping tadpole mouth to a frog mouth.

This is how I've been doing it for all my Leucs and now my Azureus. No deaths, no diseases, no SLS, nothing but healthy froglets. I have taken the rearing methods from a number of experienced breeders and combined them into something that works for me. I currently have around thirty azureus tadpoles, five of which are about to come out of the water any day now. I do something most experienced dart froggers don't do though, and that is I change their water completely every two to three days. I use my own home brew tadpole tea made from spring water and Live Oak leaves. There are some breeders that never change the water from the time right after the tadpole breaks out of the egg till it crawls out of the water.

[Happy Frog]

Here are some of my Azureus froglets. I had to take them out of their enclosure to count them and make sure they were all there. I have three others in another enclosure. I still have lots of tadpoles. Today I start pulling eggs because I already have 35 tadpoles/froglets and that's the limit I can take care of properly up thru 3-4 months.

I've been updating so you can see the progression from newly laid eggs thru 3-4 month old froglets.