Theloderma corticale

Got to say, these frogs are incredibly easy to care for. I thought red-eyes was really easy, but the corticales makes even the red eyes seem like high maintenance!
Time to update with some freshly taken pictures!
















Yeah, not entirely sure what happened here...

Aww that is adorable!!! Love the tank!! I can't wait to get my vivarium where I want it.. It's gonna make my frogs so happy!! <3

I'm still amazed by these frogs. Just adorable!

What is their average size? Do they spend more time climbing or more time in the water? Or would you say evenly both?

Originally Posted by DisguisedMadness

Aww that is adorable!!! Love the tank!! I can't wait to get my vivarium where I want it.. It's gonna make my frogs so happy!! <3

Thanks a lot! I hope it'll turn out great for you!

Originally Posted by Heatheranne

I'm still amazed by these frogs. Just adorable!
What is their average size? Do they spend more time climbing or more time in the water? Or would you say evenly both?

Thanks!
They get quite large, I would say the average adult male is about 10 cm long, perhaps 9 or so. They get fairly robust though, not like a red eye, so the are not as slender. I do think they spend more time climbing, but since I'm usually not awake the entire night, I can't say for sure. Sleeping in the water seems to be extremely rare. However, you do see all of the frog in the water on an almost daily basis.

Thats a very nice tank you got there! And those frogs looks amazing. Are these common here in sweden? Have you found that female yet?

Yeah, they really are a remarkable species! Unfortunately, they are rather uncommon here in Sweden. No-one breeds them regularly, and when it do happens, most of the tadpoles turns out as males. For some unknown reason, the male/female-ration is incredibly skewed towards males. According to a (rather small) Swedish forum, there is a guy in Sweden that currently (accidentally :P) got tadpoles, but I do not know if he are selling the froglets or not.

And no, because of the reasons above, I have no female yet. My only shot is probably the next Hamm-expo, but it's not even guaranteed to find them there. At the latest Hamm-Expo(where I got the red eyes), there were only males for sale, not a single female. So, if you ever find a CB female, please, let me know!

Excellent thread and pics of one of my favorite frogs; congratulations and thanks for sharing!

Originally Posted by ViperJr

For some unknown reason, the male/female-ration is incredibly skewed towards males.

It may be caused by high incubation temperatures. How warm do you keep them?

Originally Posted by Mentat

Excellent thread and pics of one of my favorite frogs; congratulations and thanks for sharing!

Thank you very much! It's always nice to hear that it's appreciated

Originally Posted by Sarge

It may be caused by high incubation temperatures. How warm do you keep them?

Sorry for the late reply, but like I said, I do not breed them myself, since I do not have a female (yet).

There will be a lot more pictures coming up tomorrow, if anyone is interested!

The pictures I promised is uploaded, I hope you'll enjoy them. Some of them are quite similar to each other, and the quality is varying, but you will all have to live with that
So, I hope you theloderma lovers out there get at least something nice to look at!




















Seems impossible to get all four of them in one photo, but here's three at least...

Awesome pictures again!

Feeding these guys dubias too? If so, how's the feeding response when you put them in?

Thanks a lot!

You know it, Blaptica dubia all the way! I always put the dubias in the bowl just after the lightning turns off, before they've started to move around a lot. However, it's not long before they sitting at the edge of the bowl, taking turns eating. You often see at least 2 or 3 at the same time, so it's not hard at all to watch them eat. Since they have slow metabolism, you'd want to feed them just a few times a week. So, when feeding day is getting close, you can often see at least 3 of them sitting at the edge, just waiting for the food! They are not as delicate eaters as red eyes, but seem to be less aggresive than White's, for example.
A lot of people is complaining about dubias just playing dead and never move around and just get ignored, which I found strange. All of our six frogs (both species included) always eat every dubia there is, eventually (within one or two days). So, yeah, I personally recommend dubias for these frogs as well.

So, this is the thread that made me join this forum. I keep mostly dart frogs, but I LOVE my mossy frogs.

It is too bad there is an ocean between us. I was fortunate to be able to buy a 2.1 to put with my 1.1 . Since then (about a year) I have had many tads and froglets. I too have heard how females are hard to come by, guess I got lucky. It is my belief that females take almost two years to mature. Plus the fact that they will vocalize too I think adds to some confusion.

I raised the tads at 65 degrees fahrenheit. While they took longer to morph out I am hoping to get a more even ratio of male to female. As of now I am down to aprox. 30+ froglets/subadults. Wonderful, under appreciated frogs! Thanks for sharing!

Gabe

Gabe, I envy you. I'm afraid you just have to get on the next boat and get over here with a female. Now now, don't worry, you can sleep on the couch, so you don't have to worry about finding a hotel.
Seriously speaking, that sounds great. I would love to hear about the breeding, and to see lots and lots of pictures (both adults, tadpoles and froglets). I really appriciate this specie

Here's one of the ladies.


One of my favorite pics




Morph out tank. It is 125g


The adult's viv. It's a 40g

As far as coming to visit.... I can not think of a better excuse to go Europe . The wife wants to see art, and history.

I would love to get you some females! I have been holding some back, just to kind of gauge the ratio I ended up with. I will go into a little more depth on breeding later on today. I also have some pictures on a real camera (all of the above is off my phone)

Thanks for sharing! Why don't you create an entire thread about your breeding and how it's done, what you did etc.? I know there are several [i]Theloderma[i/] fanatics here that would love to read all about it (me included).

Well then, just take the next plane. I'll figure out the paperwork for bringing live animals over the border and I'll buy you both a nice restaurant dinner for the trouble. Just brace yourselves for the nordic winter

Gabe, Any chance you would be willing to sell a female, froglets, or tads?

Another small picture update! I actually got a picture of all four of them at the same time (unfortunately it's not a good picture, but still!):


My girlfriend took these two pictures. The first one is when she took the first one, and the second picture is after a few attempts. They might not be bothered by the camera flash, but their eyes sure reacts to it!

I really like the picture with the 3 guys hanging around in the feeding bin and the forth climbing up
Do they sit there most of the time or do they see you coming and know it's feeding time?