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Hi! My name is Richard Rivas, co-owner of Black Jungle Terrarium Supply and today I
am here on behalf of expertvillage.com to discuss the proper way of bringing your poison
dart frogs from the egg stage all the way through to frogletts. At this point, we have
already looked at the way development normally happens. Unfortunately now we have to look
at the problems that can occur. There are several things that can go wrong during the
developmental stages. Unfortunately, most of them are hard to pin point and actual cause
for; however, some of the more common things that are represented usually the animals do
outgrow. In this situation here, we have a clutch of Dendrobates tinctorius eggs where
out of a clutch of 6 eggs, 2 have developed normally but 4 have aborted at some point
during development. This is not necessarily that uncommon and again although the cause
can be very difficult to actually determine it is typically nothing to worry about as
long as it doesn’t happen for more than a few clutches. Sometimes it can be nutritional,
other times it can be environmental and if it is something that happens consistently,
you may want to look at changing supplementation, checking the temperature of the vivarium making
sure that is not a problem but if it continues long term typically 6 months to even a year,
you may want to consider that there could be a problem with the animals themselves.
Another problem that sometimes shows up is premature hatching. This usually is something
that is more age related as it typically happens with younger animals or during the very start
of a breeding cycle. The tadpoles develop normally; however, that egg membrane ruptures
before the tadpoles actually completed development. Usually this doesn’t cause any type of real
problem and as long as the embryo is kept protected in a wet container, it continues
its development and then can be treated like a typical tadpole thereafter. The important
thing is to not try to feed the tadpole until it actually is in a more mature hatch state.
The reason being is that they are still feeding from vivarium sack and any type of food put
into the water is simply going to pollute it rather than provide any nutrition for the
tadpole.