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Is anyone working with these? I have a 1.3 colony and two females are about ready to give birth. I've had lots of luck with xantholophus, but this is my first go with merumontana. Was just wondering if anyone out there has any secrets they're willing to share regarding neonate care of this subspecies. Thanks. This is the soon-to-be father.

Spiddy -

There are at least a few forum members that are working with this subspecies that I know of. I have a trio, Fabian has a pair (his male is possibly the best looking Meru I have ever seen in captivity), and another forum member has a trio. I have only been working with mine for a few months, and I haven't had any breeding success to date, although I think one of my females may be gravid. So unfortunately I can't offer any Meru specific neonate advice. They have proven very difficult to breed in captivity, as the females are either not receptive to males, or clutches of slugs are produced. Have you had any success with rearing other live-bearers?
If you are successful in rearing and raising the babies, please let me know, as I would be very interested in adding some CB blood to my group - and I would be very interested in bloodline trades down the road.
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I forgot to ask - how long have you had your group and where did you acquire them?

How long ago did you breed the females? Good luck with babies...they are very cute. The only babies I had came from the female while she was being imported, and they were not very healthy. They lived a little while, then just faded.

I need to see this male of Fabian's...I have to say, I'm a bit partial to my guy. hehehe

Take care,
Kristen

I think I have seen a photo of Fabian's male, and he is a beauty. In fact, I think all four of our males are great looking. Kristen, that teal color of yours is awesome, so pure. I think the only downside to all of our males is, I'm guessing, they're all wild caught and imported. It sure would be nice if we could start producing some nice CBs. Hopefully, through experience-sharing, it won't be long before we see these guys for sale on KS with all the panthers. I wonder if they'll be able compete for attention with those big, colorful, striped guys that come from eggs.

Kristen, to answer your question, I witnessed my male mating with two of my females, once in early May and once later in the month. I would think they're getting close to dropping. One looks to be especially in a motherly way. The other is pretty plump as well.

Spiddy

I pulled this from one of his earlier posts - Fabian I hope you don't mind - but your male deserves the publicity.

If you see this - post some more pics of your Merus.

Yeah - I stil think deremensis are cooler - they're definatly my favorites, followed by melleri...but these little merus are next on my list, as soon as CB are available. I'm pretty much done with WC for a while (hopefully). If I get some CB deremensis this year, I won't mess with imports for a long time.

I'm not getting my hopes up, but my deremensis have been mating - pretty much every day. I've had matings in the past, but no eggs. I'm pretty sure it's cause of the lack of humidity. I've got a misting system now, amd that's not an issue anymore.

Holland from color creations had a Meru at the Tampa show that was HUGE - the size of a xanth. Nice animal.

Eric,

That was a Xanth. He had it listed as a Meru but it was most definitely not a Meru.
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I think you're thinking about a different animal. I saw it down in Tampa, it's horns, coloration, everything was very different than any xanth I've seen.

The horns were even larger than the ones in the above images, and the yellow coloration was even more pronounced.

Yeah - I have never heard of Holland mislabeling his animals before. And the pics of the Merus that he sent me that he had were in such great health

(dripping with sarcasm)

Beautiful animals!

Keep the pics coming, enjoy them
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And so you should be, he is really PRETTY !
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They are certainly Cool looking lil guys! Gorgeous colors!

Best wishes with him!
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