My first Varadero embryo. Help Lynn.

[flybyferns]

Hi Bryan,

I don't remove the bad eggs from the imis. In fact. I never see the eggs.
I would refrain from messing with them.
I let the parents do ALL of that work .

They will get the hang of it. If bad eggs continue, revisit the parental diet.

My parental feeding routine:
- alternate repashy, recal ca and vit D and repcal vits.
- feed all my darts daily
-dust the FF with - repashy vit A once a month. This past vit A dose was three weeks.
- moved the vit A frequency to three weeks for the leucs and the imis.
-feed bean beetle -as treats ONLY ( every 2 weeks) ) ( but not to the imis --- too big a feeder for them ) careful w/ using bean beetles too frequently - can cause intestinal blockage. They love them and will eat too many if offered.

I feed the imis ( and pumi froglets) LOTS of sprintails---I get 100's into their enclosures at least once a week

* URGENT * The springs are the VERY most important part of their care plan to have ready to go for the imis when they come OOW
( josh's frogs - is a great supplier for the imis) split the cultures when you get them. Sounds like you will be needing a good supply-- you can't have too many !!!!

If you run out when rearing PDFs---you are sunk

I use glass containers to house the tadpoles - I never rinse the container. I do 50% water changes 2-3 times a week.
( distilled water a dime size pc of Indian almond leaf and a speck of java moss in distilled water)

I use the tadpole food John Clare recommends in his care article - link in previous reply
However --- I have made a new recipe and have been rotating it in- this recipe is on my FB page ( Fern's Frogs )

If you are interested in Blue Jeans ( not necessarily in order of preference) here are some suggestions:
1- shawn harrington ( the frog whisperer ) https://www.facebook.com/FrogWhisperer
2- Home | Understory Enterprises
3 julio rodrequiz ( vends with Jeremy huff) ( NY/NJ area ) ( I purchased my black jeans pr from Julio )
----I am pretty sure either Jeremy or Julio - has a breeding pr of blue jeans
--- https://www.facebook.com/jeremy.huff...rofile_browser
---- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php...rofile_browser
4 All Available Frogs
5 " captian Ron " contact on DB. Ron has absolutely beautiful (southern morph) Ranitomeya variabilis
( saw them at Hamburg last week ) I'm sorry I didn't get them

Brian, you will love the pumilio species !

:butterfly