Pictured on the right is part of one of the pods or egg clumps. You can see the green eggs that are within. Most have hatched and I think those that are left may not. The eggs have deepened from a soft transparent green to an almost opaque green. A few are obviously rotted and have turned milky white. As the eggs hatch, the pod becomes more disconnected and the new polliwogs eat the clear jelly. This egg clump is riddled with holes, having been in the aquarium for three weeks and most of the eggs have already hatched. See the tadpole head popping up through the mass? I watched him swim in through the hole in the clump (center bottom of image) and eat his way out. He's been hatched for about three weeks.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Of Pods and Wogs
Pictured on the right is part of one of the pods or egg clumps. You can see the green eggs that are within. Most have hatched and I think those that are left may not. The eggs have deepened from a soft transparent green to an almost opaque green. A few are obviously rotted and have turned milky white. As the eggs hatch, the pod becomes more disconnected and the new polliwogs eat the clear jelly. This egg clump is riddled with holes, having been in the aquarium for three weeks and most of the eggs have already hatched. See the tadpole head popping up through the mass? I watched him swim in through the hole in the clump (center bottom of image) and eat his way out. He's been hatched for about three weeks.
