Newsgroups: rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc
Subject: African Clawed frogs -breeding?
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:52:43 -0800

I looked in my amphibian tank this morning and discovered small white "eggs?" scattered all around. I am assuming that this is from my African Clawed but am not positive. If this is the case, how do I go about trying to raise a few of these eggs to maturity, assuming they are not all eaten first?

From: [Bobbie - Email address now dead]
Newsgroups: rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc Date: 25 Mar 1997
Subject: Re: African Clawed frogs -breeding?

Been there, done that. After about a week most of the eggs hatched and I rescued 13 tadpoles. I put them in a plain 3 gallon container and siphoned off the junk every few days. I fed them Tetra Growth food for fish, (didn't know what else to feed them) and also some Wardley's shinking shrimp pellets. All of them grew for quite a while then I eventually lost 3 over the course of time. I eventually seperated them into there own bowls as they each grew at different rates and morphed at different rates. When they were all about the same size froglets, I moved them into a ten gallon tank with a corner filter.

Getting rid of them was the hard part. I gave two to a friend (one eventually ate his brother), kept two (Gromit is now in with his parents and aunt, Wallace never grew after morphing and is a tiny guy living with my betta) and finally found a pet store to take the rest (I got $2 a piece). I thought that it would be easy to find homes for them, WRONG!! I even tried an ad in the paper and only got one call from a young kid. Hope all goes well and you can fish out the babies before the parents have a snack. My other female has laid eggs twice, but so far both batches have been gone the next day.

Bobbie