Breeding Xenopus laevis

[SanderB]

Yes, I think the eye colour will change too. The most developed one already has some reddish in his eyes.
It´s kinda strange cause with axolotls you can tell on day 1 if they are white or albino.

[SanderB]

The frogs are growing well:

[corientalis]

Congrats! Mine started to morph too. But unlike yours they are quite thin at this time, only a few weeks later become fat/muscular. I think maybe the tadpole food is not nutritious enough (?) (spinatch, turtle food, krill and green asparagus liquidized). Also the fully morphed ones attack and kill ones with tail (I have a separate tank for froglets, but I put almost morphed "frogpoles" in it too until the first lethal attack). I got hundreds of tadpoles but even if I separated them into several tanks and containers with adequate water parameters, many of then doesn't grow and slowly die off. Next time I may try to save only a handful (I could sell them all if all thousand animals would have stayed alive until and after morphing, that's not a problem). My light coloured ones are seem to be golden albinos with black eyes.

xxianxx: some people say their tads died off caused by malnutrion/liver problems because spinatch, but some say it's ok. I thought it won't hurt to combine it with some seemingly nutritious stuff.

[SanderB]

I fed my tadpoles spirulina tablets and algea tablets crushed into powder.
Once they become little frogs I feed them frozen bloodworms.

[mpmistr]

Yes, I think the eye colour will change too. The most developed one already has some reddish in his eyes.
It´s kinda strange cause with axolotls you can tell on day 1 if they are white or albino.

Okay I am a little confused do ACF come in white AND albino, these are classified as separate types yes? My 'albino' is white and he has black eyes (well not, not red at least) though.

[SanderB]

Okay I am a little confused do ACF come in white AND albino, these are classified as separate types yes? My 'albino' is white and he has black eyes (well not, not red at least) though.

That is a normal albino.

[mpmistr]

That is a normal albino.

I see, I wonder why some have red eyes and others black? Mine definitely does not have red eyes.

[SanderB]

Albino means they have no pigment, the red is just the blood you see through the cells.

[SanderB]

I have good and bad news.
The bad news: the white ones are not leucistics.
The good news: they are reticulated albinos.

[SanderB]

An update, sold the wildtypes and now I am planning to keep 1 couple of the reticulated ones, I think they are 2 females and 2 males. The wildtype I bought is a male.

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