Make sure you don't keep them in an environment which is too cold.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5388300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5388300/
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Does anyone know anything about tadpole metamorphosis?
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Alright folks, new tadpole in the house. This one doesn’t have the spine curvature and bulging eyes like the first one. The color is also different. Now I’m more and more convinced the first one is sick, but I’m not giving up on it.
I never kept frogs, but I can't imagine treatment being vastly different from exotic fish. I'm wanting to recommend a round of doxycycline or tetracycline. Either way, if you use it you typically want to quarantine the specimen. Easiest way to get something setup is move some filter medium to a new filter unit and some water among other things to jump start the bacterial cycle. Should be fine.
By chance do you use any stabilizers in your tank? Like a binder compound to get rid of haze or anything but water conditioner?
By chance do you use any stabilizers in your tank? Like a binder compound to get rid of haze or anything but water conditioner?
Honestly I’m just following the instructions from the site that sells these and using what they supplied. It came with a bottle of some kind of “tap water treatment” that I use. But I’m not sure if that’s what you’re referring to.
So the first tadpole died today. And the second one is starting to show the same spine curvature. Guess I’m doing something wrong. I’m going to try and move it into a place with more sunlight
Did you raise your adult frog? My impression is that it should not be that tricky. Besides the possibility you’ve received defective tadpoles, maybe it’s something in the water. Does the company who sells the tadpoles have a phone number where you can actually talk to someone?
A sound and sensible post with some excellent ideas.
And, raising tadpoles is something that strikes me as better contemplated and done in spring.
They don't but they're very responsive to emails. They suggested using spring water for the next one. And to answer your question no, the tadpole died for the adult frog, they sent me the adult after i told them the tadpole died. By the way, this company im working with now is amazing, they're sending me a THIRD tadpole! Im going to do everything different with this one. I don't seem to have very good luck with these things.
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I don't have much say in the matter as I don't think they'll continue honoring this warranty come spring. I live in a warm climate, its 70 degrees outside, I don't think the tadpoles will know the difference.
I'm not really sure why but this is the best thread on this site.
Sorry about the first little guy.
Sorry about the first little guy.
Condolences, but not terribly surprised; from your posts, I had suspected that it wasn't in terribly good health from the outset.
They don't but they're very responsive to emails. They suggested using spring water for the next one. And to answer your question no, the tadpole died for the adult frog, they sent me the adult after i told them the tadpole died. By the way, this company im working with now is amazing, they're sending me a THIRD tadpole! Im going to do everything different with this one. I don't seem to have very good luck with these things.
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I don't have much say in the matter as I don't think they'll continue honoring this warranty come spring. I live in a warm climate, its 70 degrees outside, I don't think the tadpoles will know the difference.
They may be very responsive to email, - which is admirable - and offer excellent customer service, - also admirable - but is the quality of what they send you all that good? Are they reputable?
Anyway, good luck with the challenge of raising the second and third tadpoles.
It was actually two separate companies. The adult frog I have is from grow-a-frog, these tadpoles are from nature gift shop. Honestly i think the water in my area just isn't good for tadpoles, so ill be switching over to spring water.
My guess is that you have to get the chlorine out. I wonder if distilled water is good, bad, or neutral for fish and frogs?
I told them I’ll use distilled from now on, and they replied that I should just use sprint water. I always used distilled for betta fish
Saddest moment in Dreamcast history, Leonard Nimoy saying "I regret to inform you Seaman is dead."
This is out of my knowledge zone. The only time I saw spine curvature in fish was due to internal illness or something in the tank causing it. I saw some weird stuff back in the day that turned around and isn't in books. Two of the same species of fish taken from different regions of the world could behave different in the same tank in terms of stress or illness. One could be hypersensitive to your medium choice or stray low current voltage running through the water.
I read an article this morning on Apple News about the "giant cow" Knickers. In the article, it talked about various growth ailments, including gigantism and dwarfism. One brief thing that was also mentioned is that sometimes tadpoles have pitutary gland issues that prevent them from ever turning into frogs. It might be something you want to research? Although it seems odd that two tadpoles from different vendors would suffer the same fate, but you never know.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/scie...neither-cow-nor-giant/?utm_term=.d1dc2b97f949
https://www.washingtonpost.com/scie...neither-cow-nor-giant/?utm_term=.d1dc2b97f949