Agalychnis annae

[Shorte85]

I think these are gorgeous pictures and I have to ask... How do you guys manage to get great looking photos of your frog when he is up and about and moving around and stuff? When I do it, my flash reflects on the glass and etc making the photo kind of blah.

H'm, someone care to give tips and tricks?

[earthtiger]

Breeding w/ difficulty even in experienced hands! Here is a good read! (earthtiger , I think I sent this to you once before ? )
It's a great article.
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1102/1102.4039.pdf

yes, thanks, got it a while ago.

[earthtiger]

I think these are gorgeous pictures and I have to ask... How do you guys manage to get great looking photos of your frog when he is up and about and moving around and stuff?

take 20 photos and use the one or two which are fine.

When I do it, my flash reflects on the glass and etc making the photo kind of blah.

take photos outside of the tank or pay attention on the angle the camera has to the glass. 90° and you'll have a reflection of the flesh in the photo.


...I like the thick fingers and bulky appearance of this species:

[S13]

How have I missed this thread??????? Wow, those are all some awesome frogs. I'd love to keep some of these. Thanks for sharing, Martin.

[earthtiger]

sticking at the side of the tank - as usual

[flybyferns]

sticking at the side of the tank - as usual

Hi Martin,
Great new photos !!!
This is one of my favorite threads !!
2 females and 2 males ?
From left to right - M F M F ? --- What do you think ?

Lynn

[helm96]

Hi Martin,
Great new photos !!!
This is one of my favorite threads !!
2 females and 2 males ?
From left to right - M F M F ? --- What do you think ?

Lynn

That was kinda my guess as well!

[earthtiger]

From left to right - M F M F ? --- What do you think ?

not sure. The biggest one (6,7 cm SVL) is a female I think and the smallest one a male. The two ones on the left side I am not sure. The second one is very likely a female (6 cm SVL), the left one might be a male (or a small female?) but I am not sure.

[earthtiger]

While cleaning the tank today, some specimens woke up:

[earthtiger]

and two more from today:

[earthtiger]

[Heatheranne]

Beautiful frogs

[earthtiger]

My biggest girl mit 7 cm SVL:

[earthtiger]

stardust:

[flybyferns]

stardust:

Hi,
Stardust is beautiful!
Good to see a photo up-date.
Hope all is well

[NancyC]

I love these frogs. Wonderful photography too! Beautiful frogs. Thanks for sharing.

[earthtiger]

I still have my group of Agalychnis annae, here is one of the females:

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[earthtiger]

Hi,

with my Agalychnis annae breeding project, I am one step forward, but also one step back.

During the winter, I fed them less and I almost never misted. To prepaire them for breeding, I started to feed them heavily and misted in the evenings. About one week later, one female started to get fat. For the others it took a bit longer. At the end, they resembled almost more a plump Litoria caerulea than a slim Agalychnis.




Female and male:




After about 6 weeks of heavy feeding I put 3,2 specimens in a rainchamber and let it rain periodically in the afternoons and evenings with cold water (below 20C). According the articles of Christian Proy, A. annae spawns after a longer temperature drop.




After one or two nights, the males started to call and got dark nuptial pads and clamped the females.






In front a calling male, in the background a couple in amplexus:






After about one week, no eggs, even the couples stayed in amplexus for several days and nights (allegedly, most spawn in the third night). Since they started to get slimmer, esp. the males, I took them out of the rain chamber and fed them again heavily for about 10 days. Three days ago, I put them back in the rainchamber. This time, three couples. Again I used cold water. Since the holes in the PVC tube filled up a little bit, it didn't rain as heavily as in the first attempt.

To my pure joy, about 9.00 in the morning of 2nd of June, after the second night of rain, I found the following (first only one clutch, the left one)




After one round with our dogs, at about 10.00 am, I checked them again and even found more eggs resp. one female was still spawning:




...who finds the failure in the above photo?





Correct: It's only one female which is spawning WITHOUT any male!!! Two couples are still in amplexus, but who has to spwan, the biggest female without a male. Even there is another single male in the tank - bloody bi##h!!!
After swaming, she is much slimmer:




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I had a lot of missluck with my two "pregnant" Gastrotheca riobambae females (wich is a different story) and now this! *f###*



...but this morning, I could take the following photo:




kind regards,
Martin

[earthtiger]

Hi,

short update:
the tadpoles develop very well. Only in the first two days I had 5 or 6 losses, probably "aftermath" from the hatching.
They also have grown remarkabely.










Yesterday, I put some in a small pond and in a rain barrel in the garden to see, how they develop there. I will net them, short before the metamorphoses.

kind regards,
Martin

[Leon1993]

Like how many tadpoles you got there? seems very few for Agalychnis annae, Mine laid two huge egg masses, you can see a video of my tadpoles here: Agalychnis annae tadpoles - YouTube