Today we reached our 50th Frog milestone.
The frogs were brought home as eggs during the rainy season in February 2011. Although hatched at the same time, the first 10 percent of the frogs were very fast growers. They were the first month. After that, the tadpoles seemed to grow very slowly with an average of 3 frogs every week or so being released. This week we are getting about 2 frogs a day being released.
We have not quite figured out what causes them to grow at different rates as we fed them as much as we possibly could. We highly suspect that it has to do with the growth hormones or its inhibitors produced by the fast growing tadpoles. It was only when the total number of tadpoles in the tank reduced to a lower density that the remaining tadpoles managed to grow at a decent rate.
All of them eventually reached about the same size when they turned into frogs. Some of those that were severely affected by the reduced growth actually became skinny and died although food was always in abundance.
Interesting results.
We still have many more to release this week.
01 June 54 Frogs
06 June 57 Frogs
07 June 58 Frogs
09 June 65 Frogs
14 June 66 Frogs
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