Uh Oh. Gonna have babies

[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

[alane]

They were making quite a racket last night.

And now there are about 50 more eggs.

Good lord.

Do they stop laying eggs?


The eggs laid a few days ago have developed more: I see a spine, eye spots; a little miniature tadpole with a yolk sac. Also, they twitch once on a while now.
[edit] they are hatching or within hours of hatching. I see a few tadpoles no longer in an egg. Some are very close to emerging from the egg. They still have a little bit of yolk left, they are not actively seeking food yet; they are mostly motionless but once once in a while they vibrate. They seem to remain attached to the location where they were an egg. The care sheets say that they'll finish off their yolk first before venturing forth.

[privet01]

Do you think a change in the overall tank temperature may have sparked the breeding? Did the temperature you try to maintain it at go from a lower temp to a higher temp?

Just curious. Trying to see if I can come up with any evidence that may re-assure me that I might be able to exercise some controls to their environment that might keep them out of the mood to mate should I decide to get more FBT's.