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slaytonp
at Tue Oct 19 00:53:14 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by slaytonp ]
The thumbnail frogs such as D. immitator and pumilios raise they own tadpols pack them to a bromeliad cup, and feed them with infertile eggs from the female, and I don't interfere. If I were into breeding, it would be more efficient to raise the tads on my own, but the frogs manage to get about one froglet out of a dozen eggs to survive. Among my larger frogs, like the D. auratus, D. glactonotus, I have been unlucky or perhaps not, in getting all females. The D. auratus females have laid eggs, which they will do on occasion without a male around. The D. galactonotus just live like happy spinsters. The other thumbnails are still too young to tell what they will do. the pumilios have laid eggs , but the male hasn't figured out how to fertilize them yet. He does all the proper calling and such, then he gets a kind of premature ejaculation syndrome. He's very busy rooting under her while she's trying to lay the eggs, then deposits his sperm down wind from the eggs, so they don't get fertilized. I've been assured that he will eventually get this part of it right.
I'm not into breeding dart frogs. It they do it themselves, that's fine, if they don't, that's equally O.K.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho
4 D. auratus blue
5 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
5 D. imitator
6 D. leucomelas
4 D. pumilio Bastimentos
4 D. fantasticus
4 P. terribilis
4 D. reticulatus
4 D. castaneoticus
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RE: Keeping darts together....... - slaytonp, Tue Oct 19 00:53:14 2004