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Vandamanfla
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 Found mysterious eggs in my red-eye’s tank

I have had my red-eyed tree frog for a few months, I added a second one this past weekend. Today, while I was looking over my plants that are in the red-eyes terrarium, I came across a mysterious bunch of eggs hanging over the water (on the back side of a leaning stick). The cluster of eggs looks a lot like the pictures I have seen of a tree frog’s "clutch of eggs". They are clustered and hanging over the water, except they are somewhat hard, similar to dead coral. In the pictures I have seen, the eggs look soft and squishy, having more of a green color....rather than the salmon pinkish color that these are. I do not know what else could have laid these, the tank contains two red-eyes, a few small fish, and 3 aquatic snails. The location of these eggs were about 6" over the water, on the backside of the leaning stick. I have seen some small flies starting to accumulate on the wet wood, but they don’t look big enough to lay these. They are just tiny black knat-like flies. The egg sack is about 1 1/4" long, about 3/8" in diameter, and the individual eggs are about the size of cupcake rainbow sprinkles. So my questions are:
1) Are these eggs from a red-eyed tree frog?
2) If not, does anyone know what they might be from? Cuz it’s apparently living in my terrarium.
3) Does anyone know how I can get rid of the small flies in a way that is not hazardous to my frogs?
4) Does insecticidal soap hurt tree frogs?
Thank you in advance, any advice is appreciated.
-Jasen



10/08/09  08:55pm

 #2082024


Vandamanfla
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   Message To: Vandamanfla   In reference to Message Id: 2081994


 Found mysterious eggs in my red-eye’s tank

Nevermind....I think they are snail eggs, and I’m starting to find them on all the sticks. I have seen some snails mating, and I saw one climbing up a log a couple weeks ago.
10/08/09  10:26pm

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Lovetheleo
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   Message To: Vandamanfla   In reference to Message Id: 2082024


 Found mysterious eggs in my red-eye’s tank

yes those are snail eggs

what kind of snails do you have?
10/09/09  02:21pm

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Vandamanfla
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   Message To: Lovetheleo   In reference to Message Id: 2082222


 Found mysterious eggs in my red-eye’s tank

I have no idea. They are some kind of fresh-water aquatic snail. They have black skin with red & orange iridescent striping


I have since found about 4 more clutches of eggs, just about one on every stick. Needless to say, the snails have been busy!
10/11/09  08:28pm

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Lovetheleo
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   Message To: Vandamanfla   In reference to Message Id: 2082921


 Found mysterious eggs in my red-eye’s tank

looks like an apple snail to me



10/12/09  11:46pm

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Randy Clark
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   Message To: Lovetheleo   In reference to Message Id: 2083318


 Found mysterious eggs in my red-eye’s tank

You may want to take those eggs out before they hatch,snails will overrun it in no time,its not an apple snail their shells are golden color and stand up instead of lie down,but its a neat one whatever it is.



11/03/09  11:37pm

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Hoppershomies
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   Message To: Lovetheleo   In reference to Message Id: 2082222


 Found mysterious eggs in my red-eye’s tank

looks like a Viviparus viviparus (Linnaeus) to me or river snail
11/10/09  02:15pm


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