I'm very happy with his progress and we have a large number of tadpoles on the way to morphing and more eggs to hatch yet. Here he is the day we moved him into his grow out tub:
The grow out tubs used are about the same size as a standard shoe box and has two mesh covered vents glued into the lid. I use a substrate of orchid back and use a section of fake plant to provide cover. I have seeded these tubs with spring tails and I make sure I top up the springs every couple of days. Babies eat a lot of spring tails. For those of you who are not aware springtails are a small hexapod that is more commonly found under damp logs and stones in the garden, think all those tiny white bugs that bounce all over the place. Well great for dart frog breeders they are also very easy to breed. I use a large bucket with a secure lid for culturing springs at the moment. This bucket contains several large lumps of wood charcoal. I put around a centimetre of water at the bottom of the bucket to keep humidity up (the springs don't drown as they are too small to break the surface of the water). I add couscous about twice a week and when it goes mouldy the spring tails explode.... we end up with millions of them after just a few days and if you get it right they can be very easy to culture.
We are also just about ready for our first chameleon eggs to hatch, there are around 18-19 eggs that should be due in the first 2 weeks of September. I'm very excited but could do with a billion trillion squillion more fruit flies as they eat an awful lot for the first few days.
More to come on that in later days and I'll also post about the C.R.E.A.K.S. kidderminster breeders meet in the next couple of days.
