I remember watching your videos 9-10 years ago, drooling over your dart frogs..I am SO glad I just rediscovered your channel. I'm going to be getting myself some frogs next month. I'm beyond stoked. Keep making videos, Troy!
Please do! I'd love to see a how-to setup a DryLok background before I set mine up. As well as what type of products you use; (Lights, substrate, etc.)
When i was about 7 years old i found wild tadpoles and created this same set up! A lot grew very healthy and i let them go. My mum thought they needed sunlight and left the tub in the hot sun all day, killed all of them.
You should do a video of actually setting a tub like this if you haven't already. You did explain it well but I personally am a more visual learner and I know there are more of us out there. That being said, still a great video as always!!
Hey Troy, First of all: Thumbs up! Favorite Channel, watching your vids over and over. Love it. Put all my tadpoles together in one tub this afternoon. Now I'm scared going to bed , cause I'm sooo afraid there's going to be canibalism. You never had problems like that? Greets from Germany
Man that's quite the complex way of feeding those tadpoles!! I've never raised dart frogs, but living in California I've rescued tree frog tadpoles from drying up mud puddles ever since I was like 5 years old, I'm 63 now and will still do it! I've always just taken the tadpoles and put them in a 5 gal. aquarium and just used water out of my house, letting the water sit outside for 24 hours and sometimes just straight from the tap, depending on how chlorinated the water is where I'm living at the time, i fill the tank half way, and set a large rock of branch or flat piece of wood that floats on top, and feed them plain old fish food out of a shaker, the plain old gold fish food is usually fine but I usually use tetra min flakes, and that is fine! When they start turning into froglets I catch them and take them to one of the small creeks around that dont have fish and release them, I've even just left the tanks outside and just let them disperse on their own, they can climb the glass so if you do it indoors make sure you have something on top to keep them in if you dont want tree froglets all over the room! I usually dont even use a pump or filter, just change the water once a week and add a little new every day, the tadpoles start taking air at the surface when still quite small, IVE done this with bullfrog tadpoles as well and they can take sometimes over a year to develop all the way and never put them in with the tree frog tadpoles because the bullfrog tadpoles like when they're adults will eat anything they can fit in their mouths!
Absolutely great Channel, thank you really much for the amazing content. Do you still use this method, and would you recommend it for other species or just tincs?
I have about 1000 from a frog that I don't know the species. It is a wild frog that lays eggs in my rain collection buckets for my garden. I dont want then to die.
Great vid. I have a group of Leuc's that have access to a petri dish but they've just decided to lay their first eggs on a bromeliad leaf. Do I/should I try and get them off, if so whats the do's and don'ts of this? Bit cautious as these are the first frog eggs I've had
Tons or great info! I noticed that you did not use a heater is there a specific temp range that you monitor the water for or just ambient room temp? Do they grow quicker at warmer temps etc...? Maybe this is an odd request but the next time you move some adult frogs from an established viv could you somehow document it or perhaps give pointers on how you manage catching and moving frogs? Thanks for the great vid!
Trevor W yeah I’ve never really checked the temp so just ambient room temp...I have heard that warmer temps yield faster morph time... where mine are at now.... they usually morph in about 50-70 days
Hi Troy! Is it necessary to wait until their front legs pop before removing them? I've been removing them just before they pop. Would you recommend I wait? Thanks in advance, my friend! 💙💙💙
We had some tadpoles hatch out in my kids baby pool while we were out of town. I want to save some of them and raise them as a hands on science experiment for my kids. I have no idea what kind they are, I assume they're the little frogs (people call them tree frogs around here but that may be completely wrong?). I bought a 10 gal fish tank to keep on the porch. Any advice would be appreciated. I've read to use a filter and I've read not to and I've read use one with a sponge filter as you are doing here. Is that from the beginning or only when they reach a certain age/size? Same with food, I've read boiled lettuce, fish food, and nothing at all of there's no lid on an outside tank. I bought a small jar of frog food at Walmart but that may be completely wrong. I love frogs so part of me is just trying to save as many as possible (Another question, how many can I put in the tank?) and the other part just thought it'd be fun for the kids but I have no idea what I am doing. TBH I've even read several different kinds and different amounts of water to put in the tank. I figure I have to move them soon before they run out of air in the pool or it gets too hot (IDK?) so whatever advice you can give as fast as possible would be greatly appreciated!
I received a plant and there were two tadpoles in the bag, one dead and one alive with half its tail cut off...I rescued it and put it in my vivarium, when I found it it was about 2cm, now after 3 months it is still a tadpole, but this with 6.5cm, is it normal to take that long? He has fully regenerated his tail and continues to grow, but only growing like a tadpole, no legs yet
Hi Troy, Are you mixing the species of tadpoles? And what about hormone limiting the growth of the tadpoles if they all together?Just wonder ...welcome back!g
Greg Czyrak thanks, it’s good to be back, so yes I’m mixing morphs and I have mixed leucs in with tincs... I’ve never had an issue with growth hormone thing.... these froglets morph out huge!
I have a 250 gallon pound in my yard and I live in Kansas. It gets pretty cold here in the winter. Would it be a good idea to try to raise frogs in this pound are would it be to cold for them, are would they just run a way when they become frogs? The only thing I have in my pound is gold fish. Thanks for the video nice work.
I'm so impressed by your stuff ! May i just ask a question? What kind of watter do you use to raise tapdoles in ? Reverse osmosis or bottle one ? :) Cheers from belgium !
Can you mix all different sizes in there and just put in new ones? And can you mix different localitys/species tadpoles as king as they are different enough that you can tell them apart once they leave the water?
Yes!my common frog and bull frog tadpoles share the same tank! And you can’t really tell them apart untill they grow! Also as long as they are from the same pond of place!
I keep some isopods & springtails in my dart frog homes. I recently found clear jell in the petre dish under the coco hut, but no eggs. There was an isopod in the dish. Could he have eaten them or is another female frog the culprit !?
great vid man! Do you count how many tads go in and how many come out to see if theres any predation? Im totally want to raise my tads like this but cannibalism is my main concern. Thanks!
blight forge to my knowledge they sontbeach each other with this set up, I mean it’s possible 1 or 2 get eaten but I don’t know... I’m not worried about numbers... I care more About quality of animal.. and this method yields lots of large healthy froglets sooooo
@@TroyGoldberg ok cool, was only asking as i thought that maybe for some reason as long as they have enough food this instinct could be controlled and you hadnt noticed any losses. i currently have over a hundred tads so this method is very appealing as you can imagine. Makes way more sense to me as well in terms of water quality. cheers
blight forge that’s exactly why I switched to this method.. I had around 200 tadpoles at the time.... I was doing about 60-80 tadpoles per tub...it does have a lot to do with the food I believe.
Do you make a living off of frogs or where do u work? I really want to start working to become a fish and amphibian breeder to help make a little more but I dont know how worth it it would be. I mean ill still have the fish and frogs, but I dont know if I can really profit off of it enough lol
Hello! I found black eyed tree frogs and tadpoles in a water tank at my coffee farm in El Salvador, I want to raise the tadpoles, set up a refugium, want to collab?
I remember watching your videos 9-10 years ago, drooling over your dart frogs..I am SO glad I just rediscovered your channel. I'm going to be getting myself some frogs next month. I'm beyond stoked. Keep making videos, Troy!
Dash Aquatics glad you rediscovered me! And it’s also good to know people were watching my videos back then hahaha... I’m gonna keep them coming!
Please do! I'd love to see a how-to setup a DryLok background before I set mine up. As well as what type of products you use; (Lights, substrate, etc.)
When i was about 7 years old i found wild tadpoles and created this same set up! A lot grew very healthy and i let them go. My mum thought they needed sunlight and left the tub in the hot sun all day, killed all of them.
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Yeah I mean honestly what frog doesn't do photosynthesis?
@@wojak7970 stream frog
Nice video! very helpful!!
You should do a video of actually setting a tub like this if you haven't already. You did explain it well but I personally am a more visual learner and I know there are more of us out there. That being said, still a great video as always!!
Love it nice one Thank you
Looking good, Troy. Nice vídeo.
Hey Troy,
First of all: Thumbs up! Favorite Channel, watching your vids over and over. Love it.
Put all my tadpoles together in one tub this afternoon. Now I'm scared going to bed , cause I'm sooo afraid there's going to be canibalism. You never had problems like that?
Greets from Germany
Man that's quite the complex way of feeding those tadpoles!! I've never raised dart frogs, but living in California I've rescued tree frog tadpoles from drying up mud puddles ever since I was like 5 years old, I'm 63 now and will still do it! I've always just taken the tadpoles and put them in a 5 gal. aquarium and just used water out of my house, letting the water sit outside for 24 hours and sometimes just straight from the tap, depending on how chlorinated the water is where I'm living at the time, i fill the tank half way, and set a large rock of branch or flat piece of wood that floats on top, and feed them plain old fish food out of a shaker, the plain old gold fish food is usually fine but I usually use tetra min flakes, and that is fine! When they start turning into froglets I catch them and take them to one of the small creeks around that dont have fish and release them, I've even just left the tanks outside and just let them disperse on their own, they can climb the glass so if you do it indoors make sure you have something on top to keep them in if you dont want tree froglets all over the room! I usually dont even use a pump or filter, just change the water once a week and add a little new every day, the tadpoles start taking air at the surface when still quite small, IVE done this with bullfrog tadpoles as well and they can take sometimes over a year to develop all the way and never put them in with the tree frog tadpoles because the bullfrog tadpoles like when they're adults will eat anything they can fit in their mouths!
love your vids. keep them coming
Morten Denmark
thanks!!
Good vid bro! 👍🏻
Absolutely great Channel, thank you really much for the amazing content.
Do you still use this method, and would you recommend it for other species or just tincs?
Very helpful thank you.
Very underrated channel! Love the content keep up the good work!
Thanks!
Great video! tons of solid information given. Thank you Troy!
nice to see you more active again on youtube! thanks for sharing your knowledge, apreciate it very much
thanks, yeah i got a new camera and stuff so ill be doing this more and more
Great info i just started with tadpoles and i'm dong individual cups. I'm going to have to try this way. Thanks so much^_^.
thanks! good luck, I hope you have great results!
Joshua Ramish Hows it now?
I have about 1000 from a frog that I don't know the species. It is a wild frog that lays eggs in my rain collection buckets for my garden. I dont want then to die.
Great vid. I have a group of Leuc's that have access to a petri dish but they've just decided to lay their first eggs on a bromeliad leaf. Do I/should I try and get them off, if so whats the do's and don'ts of this? Bit cautious as these are the first frog eggs I've had
Just subbed, great info
Tons or great info! I noticed that you did not use a heater is there a specific temp range that you monitor the water for or just ambient room temp? Do they grow quicker at warmer temps etc...? Maybe this is an odd request but the next time you move some adult frogs from an established viv could you somehow document it or perhaps give pointers on how you manage catching and moving frogs? Thanks for the great vid!
Trevor W yeah I’ve never really checked the temp so just ambient room temp...I have heard that warmer temps yield faster morph time... where mine are at now.... they usually morph in about 50-70 days
Do you mix the tadpoles of different species in the tadpole tub??
I really needed this for a school project, thanks mate!
Omg this was so helpful thank you so so so so much!!!!!
I have tadpool's and one is growing front legs and this was very helpful for me so thank you!
Hi Troy! Is it necessary to wait until their front legs pop before removing them? I've been removing them just before they pop. Would you recommend I wait? Thanks in advance, my friend! 💙💙💙
Can you put your tincs, leucs etc all in the one tub or do they need to be separate?
Soilent green is tadpole food, but Soylent green is people!
nice
I love this video! So much info that i can use. Thank you!
Definitely a pain in the ass doing individual cups. Once you start getting up to 75 or 100 Tad's. I'll give this a try for sure
yeh for sure, the tackle boxes were slightly easier but doesn't even compare to this method!
Are azureus tads ok for this kind of setup?
We had some tadpoles hatch out in my kids baby pool while we were out of town. I want to save some of them and raise them as a hands on science experiment for my kids. I have no idea what kind they are, I assume they're the little frogs (people call them tree frogs around here but that may be completely wrong?). I bought a 10 gal fish tank to keep on the porch. Any advice would be appreciated. I've read to use a filter and I've read not to and I've read use one with a sponge filter as you are doing here. Is that from the beginning or only when they reach a certain age/size? Same with food, I've read boiled lettuce, fish food, and nothing at all of there's no lid on an outside tank. I bought a small jar of frog food at Walmart but that may be completely wrong. I love frogs so part of me is just trying to save as many as possible (Another question, how many can I put in the tank?) and the other part just thought it'd be fun for the kids but I have no idea what I am doing. TBH I've even read several different kinds and different amounts of water to put in the tank. I figure I have to move them soon before they run out of air in the pool or it gets too hot (IDK?) so whatever advice you can give as fast as possible would be greatly appreciated!
I see you have very nice tanks could you explain how you set them up, care for them,etc
What do you do with the bacteria from the sponge filter? You started to say what you do with it, then got distracted by a tadpole. Lol
HI! Can u raise epipedobates anthony and dendrobates auratus in the same tub?
cheers
I received a plant and there were two tadpoles in the bag, one dead and one alive with half its tail cut off...I rescued it and put it in my vivarium, when I found it it was about 2cm, now after 3 months it is still a tadpole, but this with 6.5cm, is it normal to take that long?
He has fully regenerated his tail and continues to grow, but only growing like a tadpole, no legs yet
Hi Troy, Are you mixing the species of tadpoles? And what about hormone limiting the growth of the tadpoles if they all together?Just wonder ...welcome back!g
Greg Czyrak thanks, it’s good to be back, so yes I’m mixing morphs and I have mixed leucs in with tincs... I’ve never had an issue with growth hormone thing.... these froglets morph out huge!
@@tinamunoz6099 when they morph out it’s easy to tell
I have a 250 gallon pound in my yard and I live in Kansas. It gets pretty cold here in the winter. Would it be a good idea to try to raise frogs in this pound are would it be to cold for them, are would they just run a way when they become frogs? The only thing I have in my pound is gold fish. Thanks for the video nice work.
Depends on the species. Chorus frogs and tree frogs like greys work.
What do the people who raise tadpoles in cups do with the adults?
I'm so impressed by your stuff !
May i just ask a question?
What kind of watter do you use to raise tapdoles in ? Reverse osmosis or bottle one ? :)
Cheers from belgium !
Bottled spring water for tads
@@TroyGoldberg 🙏🙏
have you tried this setup with any ranitomeya species since you made this vid?
No, but I’ve heard it doesn’t work for Ranitomeya
Great video! I want to try your tub system.
One question, do you put any kind of heater in the water? Thanks!
Jtrow No
Can you mix all different sizes in there and just put in new ones? And can you mix different localitys/species tadpoles as king as they are different enough that you can tell them apart once they leave the water?
Yes!my common frog and bull frog tadpoles share the same tank! And you can’t really tell them apart untill they grow! Also as long as they are from the same pond of place!
@@captainusopp2808 I meant of dart frogs, since they’re normally cannibalistic they might work differently than bull frogs and common frogs.
I have borneo eared tree frogs I'm wanting to breed 🤔working on a rain chamber rn
I keep some isopods & springtails in my dart frog homes. I recently found clear jell in the petre dish under the coco hut, but no eggs. There was an isopod in the dish. Could he have eaten them or is another female frog the culprit !?
It’s possible, but it’s Also somewhat fairly common for females to lay a jelly mass but not eggs when they’re first stating out
Have you tried a turkey baster instead of net for handling tadpoles? thus less physical abrasive contact with them..
Turkey Bastet only really works for really small tadpoles, after they’re a few weeks old they wouldn’t fit. The net works just fine ;)
i love the tital
At what age do your dart frogs start laying eggs?
Depends on the species. Dendrobates around 10-18 months, Ranitomeya 6-10 months, Oophaga 8-never months lol
Its been a few years. Have you changed how you raise tadpoles since then?
Mmmmm no not really I just have a tub for each locale now
great vid man! Do you count how many tads go in and how many come out to see if theres any predation? Im totally want to raise my tads like this but cannibalism is my main concern. Thanks!
blight forge no I don’t... just toss em in, they’ll be fine
Troy Goldberg I just wondered if this maybe a reason why your tads are so big. So I guess you couldn’t say if they are or are not eating each other?
blight forge to my knowledge they sontbeach each other with this set up, I mean it’s possible 1 or 2 get eaten but I don’t know... I’m not worried about numbers... I care more
About quality of animal.. and this method yields lots of large healthy froglets sooooo
@@TroyGoldberg ok cool, was only asking as i thought that maybe for some reason as long as they have enough food this instinct could be controlled and you hadnt noticed any losses. i currently have over a hundred tads so this method is very appealing as you can imagine. Makes way more sense to me as well in terms of water quality. cheers
blight forge that’s exactly why I switched to this method.. I had around 200 tadpoles at the time.... I was doing about 60-80 tadpoles per tub...it does have a lot to do with the food I believe.
hi i have 12 tadpoles but i dont know what spicies
i had my first death last week 😔 one tadpole/froglet drowned. he never tried to get out of the water. i was suuuper upset
Does it work for epipedobates
I believe it does yes… I’ve never kept epips, but it works with allobates
Salut, j'ai des ranitomeya en tetards, je voulais savoir si je peux les mettre tous ensemble dans un bac comme toi, et les elever ensemble. Merci
Really want to switch my tinc tads to this method but what about Ranitomeya sirensis? 😅
Never tried
Do you make a living off of frogs or where do u work? I really want to start working to become a fish and amphibian breeder to help make a little more but I dont know how worth it it would be. I mean ill still have the fish and frogs, but I dont know if I can really profit off of it enough lol
No I do not do this for a living... this is a hobby for me
How do you tell them apart from one another seems like they look the same when they first develope
Mmm they don’t look too similar when you know what you’re looking for… I have separate tubs for each species now though
@Troy Goldberg's Tropical Garage awe hell yeah..... I'm brand new so I definitely would not been able to tell
Is oxygen important? And do you use light? Thank you
hey there troy, do tadpoles need light or will i be fine keeping them in a darker room? and also do you know the name of those aquatic plants? thanks!
I've got a tiger salamander waterdog in the exact same kind of bin you have for the tadpoles. Nice set up 👍
I have 1 baby frog is it ok that I keep her in a fish tank with a small bowl of water and soil leaves small rocks and more
I’ve never done that, but you could try
Omg u look just like my dad same hat same beard lol omg
good vidio i know that they eat algea and salat and froglits are adorobol😀
Please learn how to spell-
*me clicking on this after finding a ton of tadpoles in a lake.....
Blue and Auttue not the right vid lol
Do you have light for that plants on the tadpoles setup ?
I thought big tadpoles eat little tadpoles.
Are the strictly vegetarian as tadpoles? Or just keep the well fed so that they don’t eat each other?
Water quality, food, water volume all come
Into play
I'm raising big tadpoles there frogs now
There the big tadpoles
There are 3 baby bullfrog
every yeAr I end up with a lot of them
Frogy qs would pin head crickets work for frogs n wingless fkys
Wassuup Duuuuude
Sup?
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Hi
i have tadpoles
Very informative! You always such great content! Your soilent green is expired if you don't already know.
jesse schmitt haha I didn’t notice that.... but it makes sense, and still seems to be getting the job done LMAO
@@TroyGoldberg "Best by" is just a suggestion right? Lol plus side your camera is working really good!
I keep tadpoles too. They love dog food though LOL!!!
The answer to the name of this video is yes
They do not eat frog bits they eat algea if you feed them frog bits they
Will cill each other 🤗
Hello! I found black eyed tree frogs and tadpoles in a water tank at my coffee farm in El Salvador, I want to raise the tadpoles, set up a refugium, want to collab?
Stop yapping holy smokes