Breeding Xenopus laevis

[Jenste]

take the parent's reptomin sticks and hbh/zoomed frog bites and grind them with a mortar and pestle until they are a very fine dust. This is a great tadpole food

[SanderB]

take the parent's reptomin sticks and hbh/zoomed frog bites and grind them with a mortar and pestle until they are a very fine dust. This is a great tadpole food

But I dont´t have that, I don´t know if they sell it in Belgium. In my books about frogs they say, grinded algea, grinded nettle and grinded fishfood.

[SanderB]

I have at least 9 tadpoles, I removed the bad eggs. I am gonna try the spirulina and algeatablets, will grind them to dust. So I need to start feeding when they start swimming? I have some white ones but most are dark in colour.

[SanderB]

It looks like they are growing well. I have 6 dark ones and 4 white ones. Are the white ones albino or is this a new colour, leucistic?

[rodsboys]

The dark one in the pic on the top row middle looks like it has 4 eyes.

[Jenste]

It is way to early to know but the white ones, if they have black eyes, are going to be either reticulated albinos or leucistic. They will morph with little pink bodies and any reticulation, if there is going to be any, will start appearing after a few weeks/couple months.

Think of them like little dalmations....they reveal their patterns in time.

If any have pink/clear/red eyes then they will be regular albinos.

[SanderB]

They al have dark eyes and some have some pigment on the backs. But we will see. The male is albino and the female a wild type.
They are growing well, so the mix of spirulina and algeatablets is working fine I supose.