Uh Oh. Gonna have babies

[alane]

Two more pics:





In the second photo, you can see some clingers in the upper left and a tadpole of the 'first generation', not quite the size of a jelly bean.

you can see my tank uses acrylic stands to elevate a hollow log feature so that it's half way out of the water.
moss balls. Plenty of little nooks.
also, frogs and shrimp and snails.
the blue thing in the background is an intake filter to keep the babies alive. I just buy filter material in bulk, it has to be replaced weekly.

so many eggs yet to hatch. there are only a few eggs that have failed. there are tons of clingers and rather a lot of eggs that will hatch shortly.

soon the tank will be 'bedlam'. when the tadpoles get larger, they are really active, especially at night.

I put shrimp pellets in, a few leaves of wilted spinach. Any cricket that sinks also gets eaten rapidly. I found last year that the environment and diet of this adult tank is way better than the isolated tank approach I tried.

Last year I hooked up a side tank with a siphon that basically, over time, gently shuttled all of the tadpoles into a nursery tank via the siphon hose. Although I could observe them easier, they failed at a significantly higher rate. I saw no 'floating dead tadpoles' in the adult tank at all.

when they emerge in many weeks, i am considering a second enclosure of some sort. if I start setting it up now, that would be good. lol.