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Has anyone breed Megophrys nasuta and sucessfully raised the tadpoles? I am wondering what food sorce you used for them and if they are aggressive toward one another? thanks
joey

Try talktothefrog.com, in one of the subforums there is a man named Steven Busch who is breeding these guys.
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A room of herps.
www.freewebs.com/kapoktree

That's the right forum, but it's not Steven who is breeding them. He got his tads from Chad on the same site. They are not bred often in captivity. Chad is attempting it again now, but even at that, it looks like most of the tads will be gone to others.

Here's a link http://talkto.thefrog.org/index.php?action=vthread&topic=19457&forum=6&page=0
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www.frogfreaks.com

To answer your questions, there has only been one or two successful hatches in the US in the past year and one older account from Germany. Almost all imported adults arrive heavily infected with chytrid fungus these days, so if a new keeper gets them and doesn't treat them they don't live long. Stimulating breeding has been tough. Those of us with some of Chad's tadpoles have fed them foods based on spirulina and chlorella (look for SERA tadpole food for example). I've also used some freeze-dried Daphnia crushed very well. The tads may have larger funnel mouths, but their throats are quite small so they can only take fine foods. I wouldn't say they are aggressive to each other, but a swarm of several hundred tads will require very careful water filtration and chemistry. They are picky...like shallow clean water that has none to very little current, as they aren't strong swimmers and can drown.

Thanks so much for taking the time to post a response. That helps a lot.