Tadpole Diary

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Amazing! One day I hope to collect some Hyla savignyi and raise them too!

[LilyPad]

Even though it's a lot of work, it really has been a great experience. It will be especially awesome knowing that the frogs we keep will have been raised by us since they were only a few days old tadpoles.

[LilyPad]

My home is being overrun with froglets! Currently, we have 17 toadlets. Out of those, we will only be keeping one. The only reason we're keeping this guy is because he appears to be stunted or dwarfed for some reason. Poor guy was late coming out of the water and when he finally did, he was considerably smaller than the others where when they came OOW. For the last two weeks, I have been feeding him a steady diet of springtails and now have also started giving him fruit fly larvae. However, he's barely grown in that time! Because of that, he'll stay in our care and live a nice cushy life

(Ignore my garden worn hands )
20160622_190555 by A H, on Flickr

As of this morning, we had 15 grey tree frogs OOW. So far, everyone appears to be doing well and has been munching down a considerable number of pinheads and fruit flies. Last night I added a plastic viney plant to help them feel a bit more secure, and they pretty much thought it was the greatest thing ever. This morning I woke up to find all 15 of them on it haha.

20160622_204448 by A H, on Flickr

20160622_185321 by A H, on Flickr

We have quite a lot of tadpoles to go yet. 3 of them appear to be bullfrogs or some other big mystery frog, I'm not really sure. They are about twice the size the gray tadpoles have been when they come OOW yet they only have the teeny tiniest legs so far. I might give them away as I do not know what I would do with them when they're OOW...I'm at my tank limit! All the rest appear to be grey tree frogs

[elly]

Tiny! Where are you going to let the extra frogs go?

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Beautiful! So all of the grays were on the plant? Maybe you should move them to one of the larger "Kritter keepers" so they have space to climb

[LilyPad]

They're in a 12x12x18 exo right now They move into an xl k keeper when they're getting close to coming oow, I keep a sloped water dish in there. Once their tail is mostly resorbed, they go into the exo.

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Ahh, okay. Once again they are very pretty, you've done a nice job raising them!

[LilyPad]

I thought I would give a final update on these guys. We gave away 14 of the tree frogs, kept 3 tree frogs and the stunted toad, and released the rest after swabbing and testing them for disease. The kids named the stunted toad "Hagrid" and he is living up to his name!
First picture was June 23 - Second Picture was September 17. He's still growing too.

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Amazing! I've been waiting for an update for a while, lol

[LilyPad]

Yes, life gets a bit busy sometimes, sorry. I honestly cant believe the stunted toad even lived. The first several weeks of his life, he could only eat springtails because fruit flies were too big. He is getting a tank upgrade over the weekend. He has been in a 5 gallon because he was so bitty, I didn't want to lose him!