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African Clawed frogs usually mate at night when everything is quiet. The male holds the female around the waist. They
both float up to the surface while upside down, anywhere from 100 to 2,000 eggs can be layed. This acrobatic dance is seldom
witnessed. In the process the eggs are fertilized externally (sperm meets egg outside of the body) the sticky eggs are attached
to every available surface. The tadpoles that hatch from these eggs are transparent and are exclusively filter feeders, this
means that they do not feed like others frog tadpoles, they filter the water through their gills and pick up microscopic pieces
of algae and fresh water plankton.
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