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I came home today to a nice surprise. It all started this morning when I placed a clean, red jar lid in one of my cobalt tanks which houses a rather agressive pair of breeders. The dish was right in the middle of the vivarium, in the open. Well, after the frogs had gotten their fill of fruitflies, they began courting...in the middle of the dish. Well, I left to do my daily activities and came home around 8:30 tonight. As usual, I checked on my frogs and lo and behold...in the dish there was a nice size clutch of eggs. Finding eggs is not an uncommon thing for me, but finding them out in the open like this just doesn't happen around here. I just hope that any vitamin/calcium residue from the feeding doesn't affect them any. There wasn;t any residue to be seen and the frogs always clean the sites prior to laying. Also, take note of the 2 eggs that share an egg case.

-Bill J

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Updated list as of: 10/20/03
2.2.3 D. azureus
1.2 D. ventrimaculatus 'yellow' (22 tads in the water)
3.4 D. tinctorius 'cobalt' (one subadult)
0.0.3 D. tinctorius 'patricia'
0.0.2 D auratus 'teal'
0.0.5 D. auratus 'green/black' (tads)
0.0.3 D. imitator 'Alex Sens line' (very soon)
0.0.2 D. reticulatus (soon)

congrats! im jus gonna wait for my pair of auzeruz? to get a clutch.. im jus a starter so i only have 1 brazilian cobalt... cant wait to get more

Conrats on the surprise. Keep us posted on the simease frogs. J/K

TonyT

Cool, I can't wait to get some eggs of my own.
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Kyle
www.kylesphotos.com
Dart Links - still a work in progress
1.2.0 D. leucomelas
1.1.0 D. azureus
1.0.1 D. imitators

Twins! I look forward to finding out how that turns out. Do you know if that is common?

They aren't exactly twins. They are 2 individual cells and yolk sharing the same gelatinous shell. I have had this happen several times with my vents, and once with my azureus. Not too common, but not super rare. Twice with my vents, both tads sharing the shell, made it and morphed successfully with no noticeable size difference. They both had different patterns (I go by the small of their back, between their hind legs when identifying individuals). On the other hadn, the azureus situation was much different. The embryos formed just fine for the first week then suddenly terminated while the rest of the clutch went on to hatching. So it'll be interesting to see how these fare. I'll have more details as time rolls on.

-Bill J.
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Updated list as of: 10/20/03
2.2.3 D. azureus
1.2 D. ventrimaculatus 'yellow' (22 tads in the water)
3.4 D. tinctorius 'cobalt' (one subadult)
0.0.3 D. tinctorius 'patricia'
0.0.2 D auratus 'teal'
0.0.5 D. auratus 'green/black' (tads)
0.0.3 D. imitator 'Alex Sens line' (very soon)
0.0.2 D. reticulatus (soon)

Hey,
When my tincs laid thier last clutch which had 14 eggs in it, i'm so proud of them , it had two eggs in the same jelly mass. I thought they may turn out to be twins, but i guess i was wrong about that.
Just thought i'd share.
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Nate
1.1 alanis tincs
0.0.2 imitators(looking for sens and horn line frogs)
0.0.2 Azureus
0.0.3 green pumilio(On waiting list that puts the waiting in waiting list )

Looks like you are going to get twins?

goodluck with it!