FishProfiles.com Message Forums

Anyone have any experience with fire belly toads laying eggs and raising the tadpoles? The ones at work have a batch and I'd like to raise them if possible. I'm not sure if the eggs are even fetile, but why not give it a go? I haven't googled yet, but I thought I'd post to get feedback from all of you. Thanks!!!

><>Dani<><



Last edited by Lindy at 29-Apr-2005 00:49

That should read EGGS, not EGSS

Hello... hello... Anyone? anyone?



><>Dani<><

Last edited by gartenzwerfe at 29-Apr-2005 00:30

From http://www.anapsid.org/bombina.html:

Breeding
There are several ways of trying to make B. orientalis interested in breeding. A 6-8 week 'hibernation' at 10ºC (50ºF) will usually do the job. Remember to lower the temperature gradually over a period of a week before the hibernation and similarly raise the temperature gradually afterwards. Another method which sometimes works is to change most of the water in their aquarium and replace it with water which is a few degrees colder.

When the frogs are ready to breed the males began calling. The sound is somewhat like the sound of a small dog barking at some distance. The males constantly try jumping on the backs of any other frog in the vicinity. If a male inadvertently jump on the back of another male, the second male makes a special croak just to inform him that he's made a mistake. The first male doesn't always get the hint and consequently the second male can at times carry another male around for hours.

Unfortunately the male/female ratio can be as bad as 10:1. If a female is present and she's ready to breed, she'll swim around with a male on her back and the eggs will be attached singularly or in small groups to plants, rocks, roots or whatever can be found in the water. One female may produce more than two hundred eggs.

The eggs should be transferred to another aquarium. After 3 days at 24ºC (77ºF) the eggs will hatch. For another 3 days, while consuming the yolk sac, the tadpoles don't move around at all. After that they'll begin swimming around, trying to find something to eat.

The tadpoles can be raised on finely crushed flakes, frozen or freeze dried fish food.

The hind legs will begin to break through about 3 weeks after the eggs hatched and the 'arms' will begin to appear about a week later. Five weeks after hatching, the first frogs will go through metamorphosis and will be ready to leave the water.

The froglets will eat any kind of small insects and larvae. They'll be ready to breed before they are a year old. The eggs of younger and smaller females tend to be fewer and smaller in size.


Good Luck


I'll do graffiti,
If you sing to me in French.