Thank you Travis for taking the time to give us beginners so much great info. I like the way you get on with the content of the video without lots of messing about. Your information is top quality and is obviously the results of years of experience and care. Thank you from Birmingham UK
Nice job man. Been really enjoying your videos. It's always nice to see another new guy making solid, well-founded, and informative videos about dart frog care. Keep up the great work!
Thank you. I really needed this. Our frogs just had heir first baby. I am going to follow your advice, but feed them less because I do know the father cares for them and if not enough food, goes to the mother and has her lay an egg. Thanks so much!
So if the parents are caring for the tadpoles feeding is not required but it depends what species you are keeping as not all species will feed their tadpoles
@@TCSDartFrogs Poison Arrow Green and Black. The pair seem to pay great attention to the tad. I took out the bowl to carefully rinse out some water and add some algae, crushed. I waited for them all to be in bed so as not to really bother them. I came back to see the pair right there! They were not happy and didn't leave until the the bowl was placed back and the frog house put back on top. As soon as the house was back on and I apologized to Bow and Dendrimas, they immediately went back to their little den. Everything was good then. I could just imagine the chewing I got for that. Lol. I usually suck out the water and put fresh back in with my syringe.
Thank so much for this video! I think it’s super important to note that dart frog eggs do vary a lot in colour depending on the species and stage of development. For example, E. tricolor/anthonyi eggs are half white and half black early on, and D. quinquevittatus are white even in the embryo stage. Source: dendroboard forum “egg care sheet”
Can you please do a video on the care of different species you have. For example like a video on tinctorius, then another on leucomelas and so on. Thanks
Beneficial bacteria don’t live in the water column, only on surfaces. Infusoria May be in the water, and adding old water will make the temperatures and ph closer to reduce shock. I have no experience with frogs, but I’ve got about a dozen aquariums, so the beneficial bacteria thing is central to my hobby. 👍🏼 I must get dart frogs tho. It’s Aquascaping without the aqua.
Will dart frogs breed with another type of dart frog ? Or do they only breed with their own type ? Great video ! I'm learning a lot .thanx. ❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦☕️☕️
Yes many species of dart frogs will breed with each other and form hybrids, there are species that are unable to breed and will not be able to produce offspring. In all cases it is best to keep one species per tank.
Hey man great video, Just to be clear when should I start feeding? I just flushed out a tad from the egg and put it in the cup with the water java moss and almond leaf. Thanks for your time!
Thanks! Generally they will start eating anywhere from 4 days to 14 days after exiting the egg. Usually you can tell if they are ready to eat when they become active and you can see them skimming the surface of the water searching for food.
I'd like to know don't the Tadpoles drown in the cups I mean when they are getting arms&legs they start to breeth so they need a stone where they can sit & breeth until you move them into a terrarium???
That's a good question, all frog and toad species seem to come out of the water at various stages once they get their front legs. Some seem to be able to come out immediately and some don't come out until most of their tail has been absorbed. I lower the water level when I know they are close to coming out and if they really want to they will climb the sides of the cup. Every so often they do drown but it is a very rare occurrence and I believe it is due to other health issues in most cases.
If they’re frogs from your local area then care will likely be even easier, most are very forgiving! My local vernal pools are currently like 50 degrees or less and they are teeming with very active amphibian larvae already, temps like 55/30 here… obviously tropicals would not be so tolerant! One thing to remember is that many tree frogs have sticky pads as soon as they have legs! I’ve never seen one with only back legs ever try to climb, don’t think they can, but as soon as the front legs emerge they WILL climb out of most containers, they can even stay stuck to curved glass that tapers to a neck like a traditional gold fish bowl, most won’t but the smallest ones can… and some tree frogs will have 4 legs and still be small enough to fit on a fingernail. Point being, you will need a lid! In nature they rarely starve, the strongest may metemorph in a few months while the weak ones get such little food that they make take 18 months or more to morph, without starving or even harming the creature. Again my local vernal pools have larvae from like 6 species, newts toads, frogs tree frogs and salamanders, so there’s loads of different sized larvae, some are clearly fresh hatched but it’s early March, it snowed a tiny bit last night, so the any larvae than aren’t fresh are definitely from last season! I can bring them home and they’ll be fine indoors or outside as long a few minimum things are provided.
Hello! Great video. If I'm adding the leaf extract instead of the actual leaves, how dark should I make their water? The instructions on the bottle make a much lighter tadpole tea than I see in your videos. Should I shoot for your color?
Hi! Great question! I thinking adding any amount of leaf extract or tannins to the water is beneficial and yes a nice tea colored water is what I aim for. That being said I raised tadpoles for many years without ever using almond leaves. I do feel that providing leaves or some sort of tannins in the water benefits the tads just not sure to what degree. I also prefer using the actual leaves as it provides an alternative food source for the tads as well.
@@TCSDartFrogs this is fantastic advice!! I really appreciate your reply. Currently I'm doing every other day for water changes and feeding. They suggested every 5 days but they poop so much!
@@michaelgans5349 Sure no worries. I used to do water changes as well but now have just been topping off any evaporated water each week, although with a ball of java moss in each cup it really helps eat up some of the extra waste.
You generally need some sort of filter, sponge filters work great for this, you will also need a good volume of water so that the tadpoles don't eat each other and you'll have to feed more often as well. I don't recommend keeping them communally, I've tried and had mixed success with that method and prefer to raise them individually.
I got some troubles ass wel wen their still eggs its going alright untill i add 1 drop of water their going bad and dead i got azureus i like to know what i am foing wrong
Yes I did have a black water tank setup for my Santa Isabel and Vittatus before I moved, worked great and no problem raising those two species together
I've done a how to build a vivarium as in the glass box part, do you mean a vivarium build as in background, substrate, drainage and plants because I do have more of those planned for the future.
None of them need it, but tannins reduce light in the water making the tadpoles more comfortable, lower the ph, and have anti bacterial/fungas properties
Awesome video. Hoping you can give me some help here with my two Green Sipaliwini Tad's. Have had them for a little over 3 months and I still have not seen any change in the process for their metamorphosis there are no signs of limbs and only one of them seems to be squaring up. I give them the same type of care with the partial water changes, the Indian almond leaf piece in their containers, and feed them tadpole bites. I also have a little Java moss, about the same amount that you use in your containers. Generally give them the same type of care that you are giving yours. What do you think I should do for them to grow and begin their metamorphosis? Thank you so much for the information you've already provided.
Sometimes tads can take up to 8 months in rare cases to make metamorphosis and in some cases tadpoles never do make the transformation. I've heard of dart frog tadpoles that were years old that never grew legs. If you want you can email me and send pics and that may help me help you figure out what is going on with your tadpoles.
@@TCSDartFrogs Wow!! I had no idea that was possible. Years? Some never even morphing?? I never read anything like that on any forum and or in their care and evolution. This really is news to me. How do I give you my email on here without the world getting it too lol!
Im Sorry that Im 3 years late but What do i do When it’s my first time getting eggs my frog just lagde eggs and i only have The container and not The leaf or Moss i also cant tell my parents bc they Will kill my egg HELPPPPP🙏🏼
