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I am looking forword to adventually breeding the argentine horned frog. I have been doing my research and my homework on how to do it and now im in the mits of putting a little bit of everything i learned together to breed a non-hormonal all-nature way of breeding these wounderfull creaturs. So please i can never get enough info in how to breed these guys so if you have very good tips or ways to breeding the argentine horned frog please make replys to my message! thank you for taking the time to read and or commet my message it is really appreciated!
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My number one piece of advice is that if you treasure these frogs as your pets, then it is probably not a good idea to breed. It is an extremely stressful process for the frogs, and frogs drowning during breeding is not unheard of. So make sure you understand the risks before you decide to breed.
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I read somewhere that one guy would build large, naturalistic outdoor ponds to breed Hfs in. but of course he lived in a warm climate.
Like Andy said though, breeding HF's is very stressful to them, so you may want to get some "breeding stock" quality frogs and not use a treasured pet. I know that one occasional poster on this forum had his female HF drown while attempting to mate them and he was very upset about it. I would be too. Let me know if you want me to, and I'll steer you to the board that he's on.
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CokeOfMan

Haha, good to hear I'm still mentioned every once in a while. And yes my female did drown while being amplexed, which is the only reason my frogs did not breed.
This is my own little sheet here, if you need to get ahold of me my email is joshmilliken2001@yahoo.com

Breeding

Feed your horned frogs a big meal, about 4 days after this you lower the temperature to about 70 degrees and let the substrate dry a bit then after they burrow lower it to about 65 degrees and make sure the substrate doesn't get too dry. Keep that up for a month to 2 months and raise the temp back up and wet the substrate to more wet than usual, unbury them if they haven't unburied themselves within a couple days and feed them a big meal and put them in a divided rain chamber until the female get plump with eggs and the male is calling frequently to reactivae them, you can record the males calls to stimulate his calling more, then once they're ready remove the divider and let them amplex and lay eggs. Be sure you have plenty of food and water available for the tadpoles since they will need lots of food to prevent cannibalism and lot of clean water to prevent them from dying from ammonia buildup, they will fully metamorphose in about a month, at which point you'll have even more fun trying to keep them clean and fed since you will have to keep them separate or they will eat each other.

Rain Chamber

My rain chamber consisted of a 10 gallon aquarium with a power head pump on the bottom pushing water up out of the water and letting it back about an in or two from the nozzle, you could also get constructive and connect a hose to the end of the nozzle and poke many holes in the hose and cork the other end of it so it's a mist falling on your frogs constantly. I had 2, 10 gallon aquariums set up this way, one for the male and one for the female, just be sure you have a sloped area of land so they don't drown, this can be gravel since they won't be eating in these tanks.
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