Uh Oh. Gonna have babies

[alane]

here is a photo of the first toadlet to emerge. the little one is many many days ahead of the rest.



you cannot see it in this photo but the little one still has quite a tail.

i believe he has been 'nipped' at by hungry adults. as the toadlet emerges at the margin of the water, it can be very tempting for a nearby frog to strike.
but these frogs have no teeth and although i've seen them get another frog, it always gets coughed back up in short order.
amazingly, even with the adults, they seem to emerge just fine in this tank.

i expect the bulk of this froglets egg-batch siblings to emerge in about a week, so far ahead is this one toadlet. amazing that one decided to develop real fast.

it takes so long for their skin to develop. the full-adults have a fairly coarse pattern to their bumps. the sub-adults still have a more fine-grained texture. the babies, in comparison, are gelatinous.