Heather - All right, today is the day that we find out exactly
which color variation the dart frog ended up being!
All right, here it is!
It's finished its morphing and it is...
It is a Blue and Black!
It's that... it's that really light blue right now, but I'm sure it'll... like darken up a little bit.
It looks kinda grayish blue. So...
Bill - So we're gonna try to get him in here.
Heather - Oh, he set up a little... a little home.
Bill - He's got places to hide and then as soon as... Yeah, he's hopping very well, so we are going to try to...
You know what? Maybe...
Heather - Yeah, his tail is completely gone now so...
It's a cute little frog butt. We call him a froglet I guess at this stage.
- Yeah, I guess that would be correct. I'm gonna try to maybe just take this out and just
dump him in there. I think it'd be easier than trying to cup him.
Heather - Yeah.
Bill - And I put some of the...
the water... that water in here just so we'd have some... some of the... a little bit of the
tannins and stuff.
Heather - Okay.
Bill - But I'll try to feed him in, I don't know, maybe tomorrow.
Heather - He's got a lot of the blue coloration. I wonder if that'll even out over time
or if he'll keep a lot of that solid blue.
(whispering) Oh, there he is!
Come on!
You're a frog now, not a tadpole anymore.
There you go!
There. Yeah, we don't have space on the floor for him, so we gotta keep him in a little...
Bill - Yeah the other ones are a little bit on the larger side so...
Heather - Yeah, the gr... they...we have green and bronze, but are they dendrobates auratus?
- Yeah. yeah it's just a different color variation.
Heather - Oh, okay.
- And it's... a lot of it's got to do with locale.
Heather - Yeah.
Bill - And where they come from and that, so...
Heather - Are you gonna hide there under the leaf? Yeah?
There's his little frog booty!
There he is.
He's so small, but he's still bigger than some of the other frogs we get in.
Bill - Yes, definitely.
Heather - Maybe he just... maybe it's just the difference of how much he ate. I don't know.
Or the species, but...
That is so cool! *laughs*
- I like it.
Heather - We were wondering if maybe he was gonna turn green, but, no, he turned blue
so it was the Blue and Blacks that bred and had eggs and babies so...
Well, we didn't get multiple babies. We just had this one, but better one than nothing, right?
Bill - Yeah, and it's... I wasn't...we was totally not set up for it so I kinda did it on the fly so...
Bill - I mean, it's... Heather - Yeah.
Bill - In the beginning, it looked like they were gonna do okay, but...
Heather - It usually doesn't happen here. Dart Frogs usually aren't like mature enough.
We usually get them when they're younger, so they don't really mature out and end up successfully breeding, so...
We usually sell them before they even get to be full sized and sexually mature, so...
So this little guy will go out for sale once one of the other dart frog...
one of the other dart frog tanks we have in there sells out of their frogs, so...
- Yeah, make sure he's eating good. I'm sure he's gonna eat fine. I mean, I'll feed him...
He's big enough to eat the bigger fruit flies. The...
Heather - Yeah.
Bill - ...Hydeis so, we're not gonna be... and then he'll eat like some of those really super small crickets
that we have.
Heather - Mmhm.
Bill - You jut gotta...
Heather - I would say do fruit flies for now.
-Yeah, no, that's gonna be the first thing.
Heather - Oh yeah.
Bill - Yeah, he hopped under that leaf.
Heather - It's okay. He can hide. It's scary changing from water to land. No *laughs*.
- That's the crucial part, trying to get them to where... I mean, they're a frog but they will drown.
They're not really good swimmers. So if you...
Heather - Yeah, dart frogs are not good swimmers.
- If you don't get enough water out, and they don't have a place to get up, they...they will drown, so...
Heather- Mmhm.