Uh Oh. Gonna have babies

[alane]

Even though i've seen the adults 'trigger' once or twice on a toadlet, they seem to coexist way, way better than I had imagined.

I even let them get a little hungry, not feeding them crickets for a few days. The toadlets can do a dance in front of an adult frog and not trigger it.

But good lord, put a handful of crickets in the cage when they haven't eaten for a few days. Angry Brawl. Everyone got fed, but not until some food aggression got worked out.

I suppose that the tadpole side-tank was still very useful, as the tadpoles wreak havoc on a tank and every other living creature in it. For the 24-7 feeding period of a tadpole, it's better they feed on their own. But once they stop eating, they are better off in the adult tank. The environment seems much better for them, highly varied.

Even though I have a few fruit fly cultures going, I don't have enough flies to feed them all, and feeding gnats to the little ones in the adult tank will be very wasteful.

I was kind of hoping that the adults would snap some of them up and I wouldn't be left with a lot of lingering starving froglets.

Pics. Yes I know. I'll get right on that.

[alane]

Here's two pictures. Sorry the first one is blurry, but it's my smallest, most micro toadlet riding on the head of an adult.



Everyone likes fruit flies. The adults totally don't mind getting piled on.


I've seen a toadlet get snapped at...but the toad that snapped at the toadlet then got accosted by another adult. I know they are hungry, but they just don't seem to trigger on the babies.

Now put a cricket in there after a few days of fasting? Wow. Never fails to amaze. Bedlam.

The adults like fruit flies as much as the babies.

[alane]

It's surprising to me that the best environment for these little toadlets is the adult aquarium enclosure. They integrate very well with the adults and don't get eaten or even harmed. At least in my case.

I have one 'critter keeper' lined with a wet paper towel, frog moss, covered in saran wrap to keep the flies in. In this enclosure are about ten toadlets i'm keeping separate from the rest. I have to hydrate them daily.

The rest of the froglets are in the adult enclosure. I do nothing for them except dump fruit flies in. They swim when they want to and seem to have no problem with the adults. In fact, the little toadlets tend to ride on the adults heads. It's super cute. They are of all sizes and ages at this point. There's a few under developed super tiny toadlets that are ultra cute.

I've had a few unexplained deaths in the critter keeper. But in the adult tank, i've not seen a single issue.

I guess i've got quite a few weeks before the toadlets get so large that i've got a crowding problem in the tank.

Right now, they are so small that they are hidden away everywhere and it does not appear to be an overcrowding situation...yet...


I was able to keep my main tank pretty clean with the use of that side siphon tank. I was able to gently coax all of those tadpoles into the side tank and feed them there. All of the **** ended up in the side tank and my main tank remained cleaner than it would have.

Over all, I put ONE POUND of spinach into my aquarium. !!!


I guess the advantages of the adult enclosure over the critter keeper are: Better humidity. More water. More consistent temperature. More natural environment.

I guess the critter keeper advantage would be that I can assure that the frogs get more consistently fed.

[alane]

remarkably, the little toadlets, smaller than a large cricket...will strike at a large cricket. such a prey drive!