Spotted frog rearing is coming along nicely. The tadpoles are growing very quickly! They are devouring their diet of leafy greens and bloodworms. We are testing the viability of captive laid tadpoles compared to wild laid tadpoles. So far there isn’t a noticeable distinction but only closer examination and time will tell if there is [...]

The oregon spotted frog season has wound up and we are wintering frogs not big enough to release. Everything is going very well. Of all the 360 eggs we raised this year only 10 were too small to be released and 123 were released. We also had an occurrence of transient albinisim, where some of [...]

Wrapping up frog season for this year with marking! We collected all the frogs that we raised this year and marked them based on their parentage so that we can track which genetic lines are more successful with mark recapture. Out of 360 eggs we successfully reared 264 metamorphs, with only 3 tadpoles not morphed [...]

The frog project is progressing along very well considering the cold and rainy weather we have been having in the early part of the summer in BC. Some of the tadpoles this year displayed albinisim during a large part of their tadpole development. This was concerning to us as in the past albino tadpoles have [...]

Since last update the tadpoles have been growing like crazy. We are running trials to see if the different genetic lines we are breeding in captivity are producing tadpoles that metamorphose at the same rate. Tadpoles from different lines are assigned a random tank number for rearing and treated identically. Each week a subsample of [...]