Breeding Dwarf Clawed Frogs : Fertilisation to Frog
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- The purpose of this video is to show the process I went through to raise these frogs to adulthood.
It's hard to get all information squeezed into this video so some parts may be unclear...so..feel free to ask questions.
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Awesome video, I think you did great. I appreciate all the info!
Yesterday was my first day actually finding the eggs at the surface of my tank! I’ve been waiting for my frogs to lay eggs since they’re literally always mating 🤣 sometimes for hours at a time haha! Anyways I noticed my beta eating white eggs and that’s when I noticed there had to been eggs somewhere in the tank and sure enough there were white eggs and brown eggs, I scooped out all of the brown eggs and put them into a container. I’m so excited to see what happens thank you !
You made me curious! How did it went with the eggs?
@@Kloptrip good news ! It’s been about 4 days now and the eggs have hatched and they’re small linear tadpoles ! (:
That dang Betta..!
Nice vid! i am thinking of putting the eggs in my shrimp tank, they breed alot so plenty of food. only worried if the bigger shrimp might eat them, opinions?
shrimps live on the bottom and the eggs float on top so I assume it shouldn't be a huge problem (compared to f.e. gups who eat everything they see). keep in mind the eggs hatch pretty fast and filterage is a no go. i would personally separate them, even if its in a cup or bucket just to be sure. Good luck!
What do you feed the tadpoles and were should I keep them. Please answer asap!
Frist they eat their eggsack, which gives em food the first 3-4days. Put them in a little reservoir with water from the parents tank. Even a teacup is enough. No filter or airpump. Refresh the water every day from the parents tank. Adding catappa leafs is recommended as first food, they eat the bacteria.
You also have to set up a live artemia culture if you can, its the most healthy way to feed em to start with.
If you cant perhaps look for artemia food for babies(dust/very fine powder). Dryfrozen artemia is still too big to eat.
So basically from day 4-5 catappa leaf and from day 6-7 artemia.
Feel free to ask more if you need so and good luck!
@@Kloptrip Thank you I will make sure to ask you if I need anymore help!
@@Kloptrip what should I keep the african dwarf frog tadpoles in
H2O2- TORChOR some small bowl or plastic cup is fune. Just something small so its easier for them to find the food and is easy to refresh water which i done daily.
Id say half a liter max per tadpole.
@@Kloptrip
Where can I find Catappa leaves?
Also, should I boil out the tannins first?
Nice job on this
Thanks! it was a very nice and interesting experience. Im proud to see theyre all healthy and enjoying their home.
Wouldn’t it be easier to set up a heavily planted 5-10 gallon nursery tank? It would have a sponge filter but set to low so there isn’t a lot of turbulence. Pro: You can raise a single spawn batch. Con: You can only raise a 1 spawn batch at a time.
Idk if I would be able to sell any froglets, I’d grow attached to them.
The hard part about that would be for the froglets to find food. I fed em living artemia which is supersmall and would go through the filter right away. Also, as soon as the artemia gets put non-salt water it dies within an hour. In a small environment all seperated, they get food for themselves so they get the right portions without overfeeding or polluting the water.
I didnt sell the frogs either, that was not my intention. I bought a couple in a shop for 2.5€ per frog so it won't make you a billionair,.
For me it was just to see if I was able to raise these as I absolutely adore the species.
Nicely done! Your way probably has a better survival rate, but it requires a lot more time and equipment/space. For me, I just let nature take its course in my densely planted/mossy tank (which has a healthy amount of microorganisms living in it), and now I have 4 young frogs that are about 2.5 months old, living in the same tank with their parents from birth. All I did differently was I stopped trimming the plants or messing with the tank besides adding water and I I fed the tank crushed or very small fish food along with the usual adult food as a precaution. I’m sure my method wouldn’t work well for raising frogs for money though, as once the biggest tadpoles get to a certain size, all the smaller ones start to disappear. You see the eggs and newly hatched tadpoles before free-swimming, but they don’t get much bigger than that. Maybe once the first batch gets as large as their parents, another batch can safely develop and they will ignore them, but then again, maybe not...
wow thats nice it actually works fine too, can asusre u i spent a lot of time in this.
Thanks for your reaction!
Most will tell you hatching live BBS is essential but, as you’ve stated here, results seem to vary wildly and are totally anecdotal. Though I’m sure live BBS is the most reliable method.
As for me, my frogs laid two clutches of eggs, numbering around 100 total. Out of that 100, 12 tadpoles have survived and are now about a month and a week old. I did this all without hatching BBS.
I started by moving them into their own 10 gallon tank, which proved to be just too big to feed them reliably without the use of live food. So once I was down to 12 individuals I moved them into their parent’s old 2.5 gallon tank (the parents deserved the upgrade to the 10 gallon anyway). I am not using a filter.
From there, I crushed up frog pellets super fine in a bowl using the back of a spoon and introduced into tank twice or more daily. And performed a 15-20% water change daily.
Once they grew larger and had more defined features, around the 2 or 3 week stage, I began feeding mostly frozen cyclops and daphnia and later began to introduce frozen BBS to the diet as well. They now enjoy all of these. I still feed about twice a day but I make sure to not over clean the tank so they have plenty to snack on. They seem to forage along the bottom and eat suspended food materials in the tank just fine. Again this is probably not the best for water quality but they seem to be thriving and I feel it’s offering them a bounty of food to eat since I’m not using live food.
At this point they now mostly all have at least the suggestion of legs. The biggest and most developed individual now has functioning legs. I suspect they’ll have arms by the end of next week.
Mine are in amplexis now, there are lots of eggs, and my poor Betta is in timeout.
take out the eggs if you wanna breed or the Betta will munch em. Even the frogs themselves eat the eggs if they're hungry
@@Kloptrip
A day later and no development :-(>
I released the Betta this morning and resumed as normal.
Zorro was sure glad to be out of that stupid box! He looked so depressed cooped up like that.
Maybe I'll still get lucky with one or two eggs hatching.
Then there's the _other_ female.
Also hoping to see Mystery Snail eggs soon.
@@kinglyzard Shame :( the hatching goes pretty quick so the eggs might not come out. they live for a long time so you can try again later for sure. you can "force" it like every 2 months
@@Kloptrip
Hey,
I did manage to rescue around a dozen eggs and they did hatch this morning! Now it's off to get some Catappa leaves, Brine Shrimp eggs and tadpole food.
Wish me luck :-)>
@MadCity Jack how are they now?
i have a normal one and 2 albino frogs and i wanted to know if the color does any difference. like can they have eggs cuz i saw them mating like 20 times already but i never saw any eggs
LexRex135 do they go to the surface while mating?
They might not or even interrupt if they get disturbed.
They eat their own eggs pretty fast so make sure you take em out as soon as the mating is done.
Both albino and regular claw frogs can mate, they both even can with a dwarfclaw frog and have successful offspring.
@@Kloptrip they mate on the bottom and they occasionally go on top for air
LexRex135 the eggs are very small and hard to spot. Maybe try to put in a plant which reaches the surface, the eggs might get attached to it and it will be easier to spot/extract from the tank. I dont know how to remove the eggs when they sink to the bottom, i couldnt see any inbetween the rocks. Also if you have a skimmer, turn it off or the eggs will get drawn to it immediately.
I love dwarf frog breeding ive got 3 adults and 2 babies
Hi my adfs have laied eggs and i have them in a separate tank can u tell me how to clean it without harming tbe little tadpoles. I dont have a filter in it just running a air stone. Id appreciate a response if u have time. Thanks
Hello @username4200pro1. When the eggs were in separate tanks, i changed the water by a very small tube (from an airfilter). The waterflow in those tubes is small so you can avoid the eggs easy.
So put the hose in, suck on 1 side to remove the water while you watch the input of the hose not losing eggs.
It let the water into a bigger but clean bucker incase i sucked eggs into it.
It might take a while before the water is out at this rate. I did this every day and swapped almost all the water with "fresh" water from the parents tank. Good luck and feel free to let me know how things go!
To add : an airpump filter in the babytank is not necessary, it might grow some algae but thats good. It can also disturb your babies food which gets katapulted around, even with low flow. Also dont make the babytank big cause the food might be too spread out,which makes it harder to keep clean.
that was super cool!! Im really thinking about mating mine!
Very nice video 📸. Thank you for teaching me this.
Mine frogs have been mating for months & I have yet see or find any eggs I've had my frogs for over a year & they are always at it maybe someday can give me pointers maybe buy a sponge to collect them I'm lost when it comes to this kinda stuff any pointers would be greatly appreciated
just with some little bucket is fine, its easy as you only need to take the floating ones
How fast do you fill-up the tank after you finish draining?
Since I use reverse osmosis water I can do it instantly. I just make sure my water comes up to room temperature before I do, the refresh can cause fish & frogs to stress due to being cold blooded.
Thanks so much!
Thanks! Nicely done!
Hi what luve stuff can I feed them please? Mine r young
Artemia is the best food, they sell it frozen, thats what i feed them
does the female frog plays dead while she is going to breed
When theyre on the bottom both male and female take it easy. But the female eventually moves up and down, the male just hangs on and fertilises when eggs get dropped. Which still makes the female the most active of the 2.
what did you do with the frogs after they were fully grown?
I placed them in the parent's tank since there was plenty of space.
@@Kloptrip cool!
What were the water parameters (pH & temp.) you used for hatching and raising the tadpoles?
The same of the parents' tanks(as refreshing was basically water from that tank), around 7.2 pH(can go upto 8 as long as its stable) and around 24-25°C. Careful with high temps in small tanks, it might influence your ph. Large watercultures are more resilient. These frogs cant take much water instability.
@@Kloptrip thank you so much for your quick and informational reply!
Hi! I got one of these frogs from a giveaway at school. My frog he's full-grown (like 3-4 inches). What size tank do you have for the frogs? Side note: he's still living from 2018! How long do they live? answer soon asap pls.
The standard rule is 1cm(or 1/2") fishlength per liter. 5 fish of 4 cm length = 20 liter minimum.
So if he's 4 inch(although from that length i rather think its a female, there are also more female spawns), i would take about 8 liter( or 2 gallon) per frog minimum. I had 8 in a 60 liter tank, i think that was even a bit small. They just need space to chill and sleep, if they got that they gonna be happy.
About the age. As far as I remember they can get upto 10 years old, so he got quite a few years to go if he stays healthy.
Keep an eye on your watervalues cause these little ones are pretty sensitive, especially to nitrite which might come with water changes. And give em frozen worms/artemia, powderfood is not enough".
Good luck!
@@Kloptrip Hi! I have I do feed him frozen krill/shrimp. My frog's diet is all shrimp; I feed him shrimp pellets.
@@Kloptrip Well although I'll be going to college with him lol.
@@michaelgr956 haha good job. take good care of your little fellow!
@@Kloptrip Lol, Thanks!
Hello. Is it necessary to drain some water over the course of two weeks? I haven't found anyone who does that so far. If that's what I need to get them started, how much should I drain each night? Just one pump of water?
Hi! It's been a while since I read up on this but as far as I remember, in the wild they start mating when the rain season begins.
I took about 1 to 2 cm's (in height) out per day.
That way they don't notice a big difference and think it's a normal dryout period.
When I had about 7-8 cm's in height left which was about 30%(keep an eye out for watervalues!), I filled it back to 100% in one go, water temp about 3-4°C cooler then the tanks water.
It should work without aswell, as Ive seen them breeding in other tanks but the speed which they triggered on this was really worth mentioning.
Especially if you wanna keep an eye out for breeding cause filters/skimmers/fish/frogs themselves eat/kill the eggs very quickly.
Go check often the day of the refill, like every hour. The mating can take long but if the male released the female they're good and you can take eggs out.
Just don't spook them or they might release.
Good luck!
@@Kloptrip Ah, alright. I think I may have two females anyway. I originally thought the white spots under one of their arms were the glands, but they don't look as large/bumpy as the one in the video.
I have done this. I did it by leaving the lid off the tank for two weeks and when the water was about a half-inch lower than usual, I refilled it and gave the adults blood worms. The next day they started breeding.
How long does it take for the female to get pregnant? I have ADF’s mating, the same species as you do. I have guppies in the same tank, hope 5e eggs are not being eaten..... they’ve been mating for 2 days now. ⚠️⚠️PLEASE RESPOND!⚠️⚠️
Hi! good to hear you got some froggies aswell :).
She does not get pregnant, she just carries eggs which she releases during mating.
The male releases sperm while hanging on the back thus the eggs get fertilised in the water.
This means, as soon as you see eggs you gotta take them out.
You can disturb them during taking out eggs so they release but in the meanwhile your gups can and will eat the eggs aswell. That means you will have to time it somehow.
If you've isolated the eggs the tadpoles will pop.
Good luck!
@@Kloptrip how long does it take for her to lay the eggs? i tried putting the guppies in another aquarium, but it’s too cold so I put them back
@@musicmode6657 when my frogs started mating they started dropping almost immediately. in my case it only took 3-4 hours but they can keep dropping as long as they hold eachother.
If they release it might take a while before they mate again so be speedy.
@@Kloptrip ugh I’m getting my new tank this weekend, but idk if that’ll be too late. im getting a 20-30 gallon tank, but thank you.
@@Kloptrip they’ve been mating for 3 nights so far
Can tadpoles eat fish flakes
I had artemia powder but i only used it when they were a bit bigger. The tadpoles are supertiny so the first days you will have to feed em artemia till theyre a bit better. I started giving them the artemia live food after a few days and the artemia powder(a bit like flakes but very thin and artemia only). artemia eggs aren't cheap but it's really worth it for them to have a good start. I recommend to wait until they at least got their limbs.
What else can they have besides artemis powder