Mantellas

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Mantella aurantiaca


different line of aurantiaca


future viv, planted this week



Mantella ebenaui

[John]

Very good photos, thank you for sharing. What species and how many do you have?

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Currently I keep

0.0.6 Mantella aurantiaca
2.2.1 Mantella crocea
2.3.2 Mantella ebenaui
2.0 Mantella pulchra (getting a female soon)
3.2 Mantella viridis

[Kurt]

Very cool.

[John]

Currently I keep

0.0.6 Mantella aurantiaca
2.2.1 Mantella crocea
2.3.2 Mantella ebenaui
2.0 Mantella pulchra (getting a female soon)
3.2 Mantella viridis

That's quite a Mantella collection. Have you had much success breeding them to date?

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That's quite a Mantella collection. Have you had much success breeding them to date?

Currently I have about 25 Mantella crocea tads in the water. The crocea group is still young but produced three clutches since I received them in June. The first two clutches were bad but the third one had a good amount of fertile eggs.

The viridis I have had for a year, they laid two bad clutches last year but have not done anything since. The ebenaui I got last year turned out to be all females, so I got 4 unsexed ebenaui at the end of July. The group was introduced about a month ago and there has been a lot of calling and one of the females looks to be gravid, so we'll see.

YouTube - Mantella crocea tads

[John]

I'm in awe. Particularly since you're still so young and have accomplished things most of us will never. Thank you for the video. I am curious about the tadpoles - just how big are they and how large are they before metamorphosis?