09-05-2007, 05:55 AM
Hi - This is my first post here so i'll just give a quick bit of background; I have a breeding pair of D. tinctorius (powder blue morph) which i took over from a friend who was unable to continue looking after them. I have had them for about 2 years (they are about 3 years old), in which time i have had to move them twice. They had started laying eggs regularly but my friend had not managed to actually hatch any tadpoles. They only laid one clutch for me, months after i took them over, and these perrished too........... I kept feeding them lots but they just didn't lay anymore.
Then my life started to get much more busy with a new job, and i had less time to spend on them. I slowly started (without noticing) to feed them less and after 6 months suddenly realised how thin the female was looking. I started a concerted effort to get as much food and vits in them as possible, and now 6 months later they have layed another clutch of eggs (only 4, but still) two of wich are now 12 day old tads!! I'm sooo excited.
But the reason for the post, as the title says, is because the female has a very disstressing (to me at least) tendancy to wretch/vomit, which started when she was thin - i put it down to all the food she was trying to deal with while thin. This did seem to stop as she fattened back up.... but this morning i caught her at it again, not holding herself up properly, with a string of saliva/stomach slime stuff hanging out her open mouth. It's not a good look. Could it just be because i'm feeding her sooo much now that she's laying again? If anyone has seen anything like this, or has any opinion about it, it would be great to hear.
Thanks
Then my life started to get much more busy with a new job, and i had less time to spend on them. I slowly started (without noticing) to feed them less and after 6 months suddenly realised how thin the female was looking. I started a concerted effort to get as much food and vits in them as possible, and now 6 months later they have layed another clutch of eggs (only 4, but still) two of wich are now 12 day old tads!! I'm sooo excited.
But the reason for the post, as the title says, is because the female has a very disstressing (to me at least) tendancy to wretch/vomit, which started when she was thin - i put it down to all the food she was trying to deal with while thin. This did seem to stop as she fattened back up.... but this morning i caught her at it again, not holding herself up properly, with a string of saliva/stomach slime stuff hanging out her open mouth. It's not a good look. Could it just be because i'm feeding her sooo much now that she's laying again? If anyone has seen anything like this, or has any opinion about it, it would be great to hear.
Thanks