Quote Originally Posted by Zach View Post
Ok to start of, yes the eggs turning white are dieing. Don't worry unless more than 1/4 of them turn white. As for the others, some hatch earlier, while others wait until they are more developed in the egg to hatch. You want to have some water movement but not enough that it tosses the tads around. Make sure there isn't a yucky film on the surface of the water. Mortality rate is going to be very high in the wild or captivity, their is no way around that. Personally I don't think you can feed 20 toadlets. Keep in mind that in the wild they would eat countless amounts of insects every night. You should let the majority go. Also let the parents go. When you found them the female was carrying the male to a spot to lay eggs, which wouldn't have been the creek you found them by. Well best of luck with those tadpoles, currently iam raising 200+ wood frog tads.
I don't think she was going to take him anywhere since theres only that creek around.. and I always see the eggs where the female was by(not kidding--- ill take pictures if I ever see them again).

I will put the adults back EXCEPTION of the very first toad I had. I had her since she was a toadlet. Iam quite fond of her and attached to her. I'ved had her for a year and she seems quite content and plump.

As for the moth idea. That seems like a good idea; but not the best since I tried doing something LIKE that with a box turtle once. It ended escaping and I was in grief. Rather not have that happen again----for whatever reason.

Look up the fruit fly culture. Look at how easy it is to breed fruitflies. lol. I thought the same way as you did. But, when I found out how easy it is to breed them--- then I figured why not go for it. I will release alot of them when they turn already into toadlets. But not by that creek. I find it they will do better in another woodlands where I found a great deal of toads last summer(5-7 please note Iam very clumsy and have not the best pair of eyes) lol.

The male and female I found mating I will release them where I found them. But not exactly WHERE i found them. Same area, but more in the land portion of where I found them. They're quite done with mating, so Ill find a good area that they will hide and find lots of bugs then ill release em there, within the week(after I fed them a bit--- it would be quite mean of me if I let them go without feeding them for the road ill make sure to get extra large dusted crickets for them lol).

As for the white taddies its only a small percentage of the dying eggs. I can count 20eggs(not kidding) so far that turned white lol. The rest seem to be hatching.