Despite being in a temporary enclosure for the time being (still waiting for a viv I bought on eBay three weeks ago grrrrr) my Reed Frogs appear to have spawned on some wet moss. Completely unprepared for this surprising event - especially as I have no idea who the parents are as there are currently 14 frogs in the enclosure!

Have removed the spawn (still attached to moss and coco fibre) from the enclosure and placed it in a cricket tub filled with mineral water. It might sound silly but I take it that it should kept be in water? and also what should I feed the tadpoles? I have just raised some common froglets (rescued just before it snowed from spawn in a work colleagues pond) and as tadpoles they were placed in a small tank with some aquatic plants and fed fish flakes. Would this suit baby Reed frogs or do I need some exotic (and expensive) paste/flakes to raise these tadpoles? and do they have special requirements/temperatures etc?

Look forward to any advice?

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x4 Red Banded Rubber Frogs - Phrynomantis bifasciatus
x3 Whites Tree Frogs - Littoria caerulea
x1 Vietnamese Blue Tree Frog - Rhacophorus dennysii
x1 American Green Tree Frog - Hyla cinerea
x15 Mixed Reed Frogs
x1 Peacock Mantis - Pseudempusa pinnapavonis
x1 Chinese Mantis
x2 Goldfish x1 Pleco x1 Red Tail Shark x1 Horse Face Loach
x2 Mice
x1 Hamster

pop onto pollywog.co.uk, he has some great advice on raising tads.

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Thanks - but couldn't see anything immediately on the site? probably me being stupid? do you have a link?

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x4 Red Banded Rubber Frogs - Phrynomantis bifasciatus
x3 Whites Tree Frogs - Littoria caerulea
x1 Vietnamese Blue Tree Frog - Rhacophorus dennysii
x1 American Green Tree Frog - Hyla cinerea
x15 Mixed Reed Frogs
x1 Peacock Mantis - Pseudempusa pinnapavonis
x1 Chinese Mantis
x2 Goldfish x1 Pleco x1 Red Tail Shark x1 Horse Face Loach
x2 Mice
x1 Hamster

This is from andrew at pollywog.

Generally for most species I use a fish food, my prefered choice is Sera Micron but at the moment I'm using tropical flakes from NewEra & King British with some Tetra Pro Crisps & Supa Goldfish Flake. I also provide most with some plant matter such as elodea to graze on and I try to let algae form on glass and decor for them to graze on naturally, the algae is very important for some species as it provides calcium that helps with limb development. I then supplement some with Freeze-dried Tubifex, chopped earthworm, defrosted frozen bloodworm & for some species I used to drop in bits of mince meat or cat food for them to graze on but I don't do this much any more as it fouls the water quicker.

For some such as Xenopus & Pipa I use 2 different diets, I start them off on a liquid mix which I make up using various aquatic plant matter from the tanks such as elodea, hornwort, duckweed & algae liquidized with a blender and then mix this with my Tadpole Diet, then when the tadpoles get to a good size I drop the plant matter and just feed them the Tadpole Diet.

For carnivorous tadpoles I feed a mix of what ever livefoods I can get, daphnia forms the main part of most diets for these as I can culture them easily, same with WhiteWorm & GrindalWorm. Midge larvae also form a big part of the diet as I have lots of spare tanks in the garden that they collect in and I also find that if I leave a bucket of rain water with some dirty gravel from an aquarium I can harvest quite a lot of bloodworm during the summer. For smaller carnivorous larvae that need a bit of a boost before getting onto the above I use Vinegar Eels & Microworms.

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It is a good idea to move them from the parents enclosure but try and keep them as they were laid, if they were laid above water then keep them above water if they were laid in water then keep them in water.
Hyperolius tads normally do well on powdered food, Sera Micron or Algae Powder (I will have some more available in the next couple of days).

Did you get my e-mail Re: the forum registration problems?

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Cheers Andrew.

It would be impossible to move the eggs really off what they were laid on anyway so I have just put the moss and lumps of sustrate straight into a the pot in only about 1 -1.5cm of water. Some eggs are therefore above the water and some in it but all will be kept moist.

Luckily I have an fish tank (the inhabitants have been moved into a clean tank) that is covered in algae as are the plants within it. Have transferred a few pieces of the plants to the pot so there is nice fresh algae for the tadpoles. Also have some duckweed that I will move there aswell.

I take it that it is after a few days that I feed then the flakes, as do not want to contaminate the water?

PS. Andrew - I promised you pictures of the frogs and will do so soon. I think that I have Marbled, Parkers, Golden Sedge and Striped Spiny Reed frogs from looking on the internet but can't identify them all.

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x4 Red Banded Rubber Frogs - Phrynomantis bifasciatus
x3 Whites Tree Frogs - Littoria caerulea
x1 Vietnamese Blue Tree Frog - Rhacophorus dennysii
x1 American Green Tree Frog - Hyla cinerea
x15 Mixed Reed Frogs
x1 Peacock Mantis - Pseudempusa pinnapavonis
x1 Chinese Mantis
x2 Goldfish x1 Pleco x1 Red Tail Shark x1 Horse Face Loach
x2 Mice
x1 Hamster

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x4 Red Banded Rubber Frogs - Phrynomantis bifasciatus
x3 Whites Tree Frogs - Littoria caerulea
x1 Vietnamese Blue Tree Frog - Rhacophorus dennysii
x1 American Green Tree Frog - Hyla cinerea
x15 Mixed Reed Frogs
x1 Peacock Mantis - Pseudempusa pinnapavonis
x1 Chinese Mantis
x2 Goldfish x1 Pleco x1 Red Tail Shark x1 Horse Face Loach
x2 Mice
x1 Hamster