Quote Originally Posted by Mentat View Post
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.