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Day 148

Looking into the 10 gallon tadpole tank it appears that the number of tadpoles without any limbs has decreased to 3. At the same time, the number of tadpoles that have only developed back legs is also down to 3 as another tadpole has grown its front arms. The most developed tadpole has now developed to the point of being a near froglet as its head has nearly finished morphing into a froglet head. In total this leaves us with 1 near froglet, 1 tadpoles with arms and legs, 3 tadpoles with only back legs, and 3 tadpoles with neither front legs nor back legs. The slow development of some the tadpoles is particularly impressive when taking into. account the attention to water conditions I've paid over the last five months in addition to the warm temperature, which tends to increase metabolism and subsequently growth rate to a degree.

At least the delayed progress of Strangelove makes sense as the poor tadpole's development was stunted by early mobility issues. The other two tadpoles are just outliers at this point, though I am curious to see if we can end up with a six month tadpole considering that's about the earliest age African Clawed Frogs developing on a normal schedule can begin to sexually mature, with 12 to 18 months being the average time range for the end of growth and the beginning of the fully mature adult frog stage. I almost wish I had the ability to have held on to one of the larger juvenile frogs from the first group I sent out almost two months ago on day 101. At the rate that some of them seemed to be growing, it wouldn't surprise me if at least one of them were nearing the size of their father, Scout, by now.

Current Totals:

8 - 10 gallon (Tadpole Tank)
34 - 20 gallon (Frog Tank) [9 froglet, 25 juvenile]

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