Uh Oh. Gonna have babies

[emily0616]

Just wondering what kind of frogs, I don't know if i keep skipping over it or if it's mentioned. But definitely separate babies and parents.

[emily0616]

Just kidding, I see now that it's in a fire belly toad section or whatever this is, lol I just started using this sorry

[alane]

Fire Belly Toads. I got them about seven weeks ago or so. Put 'em into a 30 gallon tank with 11 gallons of water, lots of interesting habitat. Added some cherry shrimp to the bottom of the tank to help clean up, which they do well.

I'm torn. I've never been through this process.
I want to see the little ones emerge because I know they will be so cute.
But I don't have space for keeping all of them, so...I guess nature will take it's course in some way. Which probably means a meal for the adults.
But the little froglets will be so cute and the whole process will be fascinating to watch.
Until they get eaten.

I suppose I could devote my entire house to fire belly toad aquariums. ah, the process of impending madness.

I do have a second 5 gallon tank attached to the first via a siphon. Currently it has only vegetation in it. So I do have a 'hatchery' of sorts all set up and ready to go; I would eventually need to add some sort of haul-out by the time they transformed.

[Joshheitkemper]

Yeah. The babies will prob eat fish food and tetra discs or something like that. I don't much about fire bellies and if you should keep the eggs with the adults or not. I usuallly deal with bullfrogs or painted frogs.

[Joshheitkemper]

What I would do is seperate the eggs and wait till they hatch and then give em to the local pet store.

[alane]

Ideally, I would leave the eggs alone, remove all of the adults into another tank. I do not have that other tank that can fit six adults.

Since they apparently like to hump my Elodea sprigs, I traded eggy sprigs for non-eggy sprigs. Now the 4 gallon satellite tank has three eggy sprigs (about 15 eggs) and no adults. And there are fresh sprigs in the main tank if they want to lay more eggs on them. There's gotta be at least 10 more eggs i'll not be able to get to, so when they become free swimming, I'll try to net them.
Same water, same temperature, so no shock there, I hope.

There are lots of good help sheets out there. Including one on this website. I can see that if I continue down this path, i'll need special foods and a different enclosure for the little frogs at some point.

[alane]

Eggs:

[alane]

24 hours later, most eggs are no longer spherical. This backlit image shows the various egg encapsulations well.

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Sorry I haven't gotten to this sooner! Yes, that last picture is definetly proof those eggs are fertile. Here's a link to a care-sheet that has info on raising tadpoles of this species: http://www.frogforum.net/content.php...-and-relatives