Labeling Poisonous Dart Tadpole Eggs

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Richard Rivas, co-owner of Black Jungle Terrarium Supply and today I am here on behalf of expertvillage.com discussing the basics of how to take your Dendrobates frogs from egg through the tadpole stage into froglets. Now that we’ve pulled the clutch of eggs, the next step is to log them or at least do some record keeping on them so we can know who laid what. Here at Black Jungle we give each clutch of eggs a label with the type of frog that it came from as well as the date that it was laid on. Additionally once the clutch is labeled on the lid itself, we then have our log book where we have every species and tank catalogued and we’ll make the entry here as well showing the date that the egg was laid, how many eggs were in the clutch, how many appeared to be good, how many appeared to be bad and then record any additional notes that we deem necessary. For your own record keeping, you can have it as basic or as simple as you would like. Here we always try to keep track to see who is breeding, who is not breeding, are there problems with the eggs, are there problems with the tadpoles just so we can see if there is any patterns to any poor breeding behavior or patterns to good breeding behavior to determine what is causing them and how we might fix them. The most important thing is to at least keep track of what species they are, the date they were laid so that we can also monitor and make sure that the development is progressing normally. "