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Not that I'm getting impatient but I'm almost ready to call dyfus on my pair of blue jeans. They have laid about 11 fertile clutches (approx.= 75 eggs total) now and not taken care of any of their tadpoles. My previous pair a few years ago were not this bad! I'm looking everywhere and can't find any tadpoles, whereas with my other pair I would sometimes find 3-6 tads/ brom cup. Leading to my question.....anyone ever have any success raising them themselves? Guess I just have to sit back and prey they figure things out.
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Justin
stk18119@loki.stockton.edu

D.auratus
D.leucomelas
D.tinctorius (lorenzo, yellowback, citro, pb, oyopock,etc.)
D.azureus
D.ventrimaculatus (yellow/gold)
D.pumilio (blue jeans, solid red)
P.aurotaenia (narrow bands/green)
P.bicolor
E.tricolor (Santa Isabel)
H. leucophyllata
P. hypochondrialis azurea
P. resinfictrix
etc.......

Nope.... and not many people have. People have tried feeding unfertilized eggs from other darts, chicken egg yolk, you name it. The end result is a tad that clings to life for 6 months before morphing out spindly leg, if at all. I've also tried moving a tad to a different pumilio tank to see if I could get them to surrogate parent it. No dice there either. It gets rejected, even if put in an axil that I have seen the frogs at before. Somehow they know.

Sorry for the negative feedback....