A few cool pictures / stories attached.

[Stefan-A]

According to the wikipedia article, their metamorphosis takes 12-24 months.

[infernalis]

The tadpoles in my feeder tank transform in days.

the most recent ones are spring peeper tads. (tiny!!)

Every morning there is a bunch of micro frogs on the floating log.

Then the reluctant eaters get them.

Or Magma just dives into the tank, greedy little bugger!

[jitami]

Amazing job on that tail, Wayne! Any trick to getting the babies to eat out of your hand? That would be so much fun! Probably takes about the same amount of time as feeding them in a separate container which I'm going to have to start doing soon anyway Pretty cool swimming pool, too

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Amazing job on that tail, Wayne! Any trick to getting the babies to eat out of your hand?

Pick them up slowly and when they are no longer startled by your presence. approach them from underneath and kind of scoop them up, instead of grabbing from above. as long as they are not feeling threatened, they should eat!

[infernalis]

It's called "tease feeding" I hold the fishy by the tail, and coax the head of the fish in front of the snakes face.

It's FASTER than transferring them Just pick them up one at a time, feed and return them.

about half the baby snakes take food for me this way.

Just last night "Lurch" the wee little butlers ate from my hand, it was cool.

[anji1971]

Great pictures, Wayne!
Love the swimming pool -- very cool!!
And Carmella's tail looks good, must have been a pretty nasty wound for a while. Good job with her.
I've been having some success getting my nervous little Sweetpea to eat from my hand. She totally freaks out in the feeding bin, so it's the only thing that works. But she still won't eat very much each time, and she'll stop completely if she gets startled, so it's a constant battle.

[jitami]

Very cool! Shannon so far my only snake has been my WC male who really doesn't tolerate handling well. He will rarely even take food from tongs for me and then if startled will spit it out...sigh... Thankfully he always picks it back up, but I'm really looking forward to raising captive bred babies to be more tolerant of handling!!!

[Aundrea]

very nice pics!!! Love that ribbon eatting outta your hand. Too cute. What happend to your milksnakes tail?

[infernalis]

What happend to your milksnakes tail?

On the night I found her, she was frozen solid, it was early spring the frost was heavy that night. If I remember correctly it was like 27 out.

I have been treating the tail with antibiotics to prevent infections.

She is a sweetheart, wild Milksnakes are usually biters, Not Carmella!! never even tried to bite

I thought it was a HE, but about a month after I brought her in, she laid 7 eggs!

The eggs are incubating now, fingers crossed for heathy baby milks.

[Aundrea]

awwwwwwwwwwwwwww she is so pretty!!! That is so coool that shes sweet. She is thanking you for saving her life and her babies So you got some eggs also eh? Wow I hope they hatch. What other babies do you have that will soon hatch or give birth to? lol You sure do have your hands full with all the new babies comming.