Ranitomeya ventrimaculata - Breeding Thread

[Vivariums In The Mist]

Congrats!

[DigitalPunk]

Thanks!!

Looks like maybe a 2nd tad is trying to come out and see me. 4 total tads in this clutch. 1 out 3 still growing and 10 eggs behind working on creating life lol.

[DigitalPunk]

All 4 tads have hatched out and are now in the tadpole containers. If this keeps up I will quickly be overrun with Vent tadpoles. They are laying an average of 5 eggs every 5 days.

[DigitalPunk]

Going to let this thread end with this.

I think I finally FINALLY have things dialed in for the eggs. Tadpoles in cups and eggs developing with little to no failures. The vents have moved to depositing clutches every 3 days and are totally insane!

The steps that have shown consistent success for me is as follow.

1. Pull eggs at 48 hours
2. Place canister in petri dish
3. Add tadpole tea to petri dish (enough to get water into canister and around eggs)
4. Place petri dish in plastic shoe box container
4a. Shoe box has paper towels on the bottom and enough distilled water to cover the paper towel.
5. Heat shoe box to high 70's constantly
6. Wait for tadpoles to hatch


For whatever reason the distilled water on it's own was adding to my failure rate, or it seems like it was based on my experience.

Thanks for reading along!

Paul

[DigitalPunk]

Small update - Currently have 18 tadpoles out and growing and 13 eggs working on more tads.