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I've got to show off my new baby that just hopped out of the water--way ahead of his sibling that is barely popping his front legs and still has a tail.

I had never successfully raised tadpoles before. (The pumilios and thumbnails are left to raise their own.) It took me several tries before I began to get viable hatching.

One of the reasons I believe the two first guys from the same clutch of eggs are so far apart in development is that I kept them together for awhile until I saw that one wasn't developing as fast. Some people have stated that D. azureus tads are cannibalistic, but I didn't see this at all. There does appear to be some inhibition in the development of more than one in a container. This guy was always weeks ahead, even after I separated them.

The D. azureus get their color early, even as tads.

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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

D. auratus blue, auratus Ancon Hill, galactonotus orange, galactonotus yellow, fantasticus, reticulatus, imitator, castaneoticus, azureus, pumilio Bastimentos. P. lugubris, vittatus, terribilis mint green, terribilis orange.

Yay, grats Patty! Glad to see the cats didn't get to them this time!

You WOULD remind me of that!

After my initial stupidity, I'm using Sterilite 3X6 containers now, with snap down lids on a rack. The cats cannot knock these over. (Says the person who didn't think they could knock over an entire corner cupboard of Hummel figurines and break them all, until hearing the crash.)

The second photo is a picture of the one D. galactonotus tad from an egg mass that I recovered and hatched. I'm waiting for them to settle down a bit to recover some more, I hope. Right now, the breeding is rather overly enthusiastic, and the old girls are laying eggs in piles and messing them up as fast as they lay them. It's their first experience, so it's hard to recover eggs before they destroy them by trampling. I was actually surprised when I saved this one, because it really didn't look all that good.

The first picture is just to show the sibling of the new froglet as he looks today--well behind him in maturity, but you can see the color on him fairly well. I think he is at least two to three weeks behind his egg-mate, who is eating fruit flies in a permanent tank and hopping around like an adult already.

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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

D. auratus blue, auratus Ancon Hill, galactonotus orange, galactonotus yellow, fantasticus, reticulatus, imitator, castaneoticus, azureus, pumilio Bastimentos. P. lugubris, vittatus, terribilis mint green, terribilis orange.

Congrats indeed! Thanks for sharing pics. I hope to be able to bred also. Crazy how they have so much color even as tads!
Nick