I've been on vacation for a week, way off in the boonies, so just got back tonight to answer.

I don't really know if the female recognized the fact that the tad she was feeding was not actually her own. I think perhaps she was responding more to the male's call to feed the tad. I believe the "come have sex" and "come feed the baby" call is different, or simply assume it must be, just from my own observations. Both mother and "auntie" responded to the call. The mother seemed to have the most control over the situation, but the "auntie" would sneak in and lay an egg if she got there first.

"Buying them a puppy," is a good way to put it when I purchased the juvenile galacts for my old girls I'd had for years to goose them up. I'd had them in the paludarium for several years, and realized they were all females. They were getting along quite well, but I just wanted to see if I could make life more interesting for them, and it did.

The juvie I managed to raise from their egg pile is still in a different tank, but when he gets a bit larger, I think I will introduce him back into the paludarium. (or her--) One of my old ladies is now missing, or at least I haven't seen her for a month or more. In a large, heavily planted tank, it's really difficult to keep track of each individual, and if a frog dies, it deteriorates so rapidly, you can't always recover the corpus delicti before it is unrecognizable.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

D. auratus blue, auratus Ancon Hill, galactonotus orange, galactonotus yellow, fantasticus, reticulatus, imitator, castaneoticus, azureus, pumilio Bastimentos. P. lugubris, vittatus, terribilis mint green, terribilis orange.

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