unless you count the fact that he's been a tadpole for the past 6 weeks...

crawled out the bromeliad tonight, about half the size of my pinky thumbnail



parents (about 20mm long)
male



female


and my other new pair of pumilio that laid eggs tonight (which i'm really happy about seeing as how i only purchased them last week and they should be a good $400 investment)

2/9/2006 12:55:27 AM

that is so neat and no matter what kind of pet a person has, the smaller the cuter.

2/9/2006 9:56:35 AM

I am guessing by investment you are going to sell the baby frogs.

How much were the parents? How much will the babies sell for?

2/9/2006 10:20:39 AM

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"about half the size of my pinky thumbnail"

???

they look cool though

2/9/2006 11:53:49 AM

parents of the green pumilio were 200 for the pair, babies should sell for around 100 each. the BriBri were 400 for the pair, and their babies will go for about 150 each. although i'll hold the first 4 or 5 back for my breeding programs. and being obligate eggfeeders they only produce about a dozen babies per year

2/9/2006 12:13:47 PM

congrats, man. thats pretty awesome. do you have to flush those eggs down into the base of the bromeliad, or what?

nothing quite like breeding success, love getting free animals, especially when they cost $texas.

2/9/2006 12:28:57 PM

i can't wait till i can breed my spiders.... but that's probably not gonna be for YEARS... i like raising them from spiderlings way too much

2/9/2006 12:30:31 PM

Somehow this is very cool to me... And I know nothing about frogs.

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"It's not eassssyyyyy being green!"

2/9/2006 1:24:30 PM

^^^ pumilio are obligate eggfeeders, which means they do all the work for me. The parents lay and fertilized the eggs, the male periodically moistens them until they hatch, then transports them to different bromeliad axils. The female then comes periodically and deposits unfertilized eggs on the edge of the water. The tadpoles eat these eggs and nothing else, they are next to impossible to raise by hand (although some people have had success using unfertilized eggs from other dendrobatid speices and some using chicken eggs). I also have a few imitator tadpoles and Green Legged lamasi tadpoles in the water at the moment, and they'll eat pretty much anything including each other

2/9/2006 3:40:02 PM

yea, i had some of those mail-order tadpoles when i was a kid....did pretty well, till they got to be bigger tadpoles, when all the bigger ones started eating the fuck out of the smaller ones.

only 2 or 3 made it out of the water, and only 1 lived a decent length of time beyond that, and then he died soon after i moved to NC.

was probably only r. clamitans or something like that.

2/9/2006 5:19:47 PM

yeah, i keep all my cannibalistic tads separate in small sandwich tupperware containers. I'm hoping that now that i've got a good number of pairs breeding my dart hobby can finally become self-sustaining.

and

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"pinky thumbnail"

i just meant my pinky nail... just getting confused since most of these smaller frogs are known simply as "thumbnails"

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2/9/2006 5:32:09 PM

I totally opened this and thought you were talking about a pet plant...

2/9/2006 5:51:17 PM

^haha, me too

2/9/2006 6:05:37 PM

1 of 3, parents just laid a new clutch of eggs

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2/14/2006 5:36:07 PM

pet frogs rock my socks

2/14/2006 6:14:48 PM