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    Parents: natural male, Phantom. albino female, Kirby. - - - first successful mating, both approx 12-14 months of age.

    laid early Saturday, July 24, 2010.

    10 eggs hatched, now 5 days old

    will use this thread as a journal to keep track of their progress (fingers crossed!!)


    feeding - - finely ground ReptoMin sticks and HBH Frog and Tadpole bites. also what I call "bloodworm broth" - - 1 cube of frozen bloodworm (defrosted) + 1 cup of water, set to puree on blender


    any tips, experience, etc welcome! this is my first batch!

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    video of the 5 day old tadpoles swimming in another thread


    http://www.frogforum.net/aquatic-cla...ole-video.html

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    day 6 - - a noticeable growth! yay!

    Also, it is obvious that 3 of the tadpoles are "white/clear" - - hopefully these morph into albinos like their mom!


    did a 30 % waterchange and fed them their powdered mixture - - can see nice full bellies! (perk of them being see-through!)

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    That's great. I would love to see a photo of the clear tadpoles. Are Albino's rare your way? We have the odd Albino Green & Golden come up here for sale but they sell for like $1000.00. Not what I would pay.

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    no, not exactly "rare', but more valuable by a few dollars...plus I just like the albinos a little bit more than marbled...

    I tried getting photos of the tadpoles, but both color variations just come out as white blurs on my camera - -they are still too tiny to really be focused on - - hopefully by next week I will be able to get some good photos!

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    Ha ha..You haven't trained them well enough yet then ah!. They really do have to learn to stop and pose for their photo-shoot.

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    did a 20% water change and feed blood worm broth - - I can tell they are growing

    there are two tadpoles that seem MUCH smaller than the others - - one of the white tadpoles and one of the shadowed tadpoles.
    I hope they catch up! from what I have read, chances are these two will not successfully morph, but fingers crossed!
    The little white one is the tiniest one of the bunch....between 1/3-1/2 the size of the other tadpoles...still looks like a day 2 tadpole.

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    yesterday the frogs were a week old! but today the little white tadpole died. it was so far behind in development i don't think it had a change of successfully morphing anyways.


    I took some new pictures and a new video - - one of the albinos really stands out (if you squint...)

    YouTube - ACF Tapoles - 8 days old[/URL]


    albino tadpole:





    regular tadpoles:

    Last edited by Kurt; August 2nd, 2010 at 12:55 AM.

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    Cool...Looking good Jenna

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