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Hey; to update on my last posts about my recieving eggs from my pair of arautus, I currently have two large tadpoles that seem to be growing nubs to soon be legs, 3 medium, 3 eggs about to hatch today or tomarrow (one of which has hatched) and 3 more eggs about 7 days old. I'm proud to say I havn't had one failed egg or tadpole, and am looking at alot of frogs!
The real reason I posted: My frog has laid what seems to be one egg (but may be more) on the leaf (directly above the water sitting in the plant) of their bromeliad. I'm going to leave the egg for a day or two to ensure firtilization and all. What should I do? Remove it? If so...how? I've heard using a teaspoon can do it, but I don't want to flip the egg. I'd prefer to incubate it out of the vivarium...(to discourage this, should I provide more egg places with water...more petri dishes?
-Sean

Here's the egg (in a rediculously overexposed picture...light and flash...sorry) I believe she is laying more eggs in the dish I've had provided. What do you all think?
-Sean

I don't use broms in my tanks anymore for this reason. I would rather they just lay in a petri dish (mine have never laid on broad leaves, but I have heard they can and will).

What to do is really up to you. You can leave it (provided you don't have other males or females other than the ones that laid the eggs in the tank that will eat the egg). This is cool to watch. Another option is to remove it. Plastic spoons work nice for that.
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Josh Willard
www.joshsfrogs.com

I have actually cut off the leaf before and placed it in a petri dish inside my humid egg boxes (plastic shoeboxes with paper towels). I have enough plants that this doesn't bother me. I would be worried about damaging the egg by scraping it off.
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I would also be worried about scraping it off; complicating matters, it has slided slightly to the base of the leaf. I fear I may need to remove the leaf...would this sacrifice my Brom.? It is a very hardy plant and the leaf is at the very bottom; I am aware of how to prune or extract leaves and think it should do fine (possible infection and such is my concern). I thought to add a place for the male to transport the tadpole (upon hatching) to more water, but I am aware that they "pre-select" the spots for the tadpoles and it may as well just be in the pockets of water the bromeliad holds. Thanks for all the advice; anyone who has any more advice I'd be more than happy to get more opinions and answers.
-Sean