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sam

Its been a busy couple of days for my frogs!

First, four Epipedobates hahneli tadpoles emerged:

Then, the parents laid another clutch,
And finally, I was able to observe the courting and spawning of my golden mantella, resulting in this huge clutch of eggs:

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kroakykaren · Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:26 pm Post subject:

Nice one Sam, i love mantella's Very Happy

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David Maguire · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:49 am Post subject:

what price will you be selling the young for ???
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David

sam · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:54 am Post subject:

Ideally I will be swapping young with other mantella breeders to increase the size of the gene pool. I would also use this oppertunity to set up another group or two. After that, theres a list of people who are interested. If there are any left over from that thden I would probably sell them more generally, but I have no idea of price yet.
These are still in the very early stages, so im not ven sure I will be able to get them all to froglet stage.
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sam · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:58 pm Post subject:

Update: tadpoles still alive, and the mantella eggs seem fertile!
Day 1:

Day 2:

You can just see a groove forming as part of the development
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lol93 · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:05 pm Post subject:

Good work Sam!
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poisonjedhead · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:45 pm Post subject:

that's amazing
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MJ · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:51 pm Post subject:

Congrats on the mantella eggs mate! It's really good to see a nice clutch of eggs from these guys Cool

Nice one on the hahneli tad as well! know how frustrated you've been with the bloody things Laughing

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sam · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:03 pm Post subject:

Thanks folks.
Tads arent out of the woods yet to be fair... Ive heard they tend to act REALLY stupid when it comes to morphing time-fingers crossed i get them that far!
As far as the mantella go, am very glad they are fertile. Will have to see how things go for these, am wathcing carefully as they hatch after 3-11 days
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sam · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject:

Good grief, these develop SO fast! Just 10 hours after the last photo:

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