Agalychnis annae

[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

[Terrarium Supplies]

Leon, that's just showing off lol!

[Leon1993]

Leon, that's just showing off lol!

No, it's just that this frogs lay a lot of eggs compared to the other Agalychnis, i bred A. annae two times and the two times i got around 300-350 tadpoles so i'm just curious about how many you got there.

[earthtiger]

These are not all of my tadpoles. Only from one tank while cleaning it.

i bred A. annae two times and the two times i got around 300-350 tadpoles

from one female? How many unfertile eggs?

What are you doing with all the froglets? I think there are not so many frog keepers in Costa Rica!?

Nice video, thanks for sharing it!

[Leon1993]

These are not all of my tadpoles. Only from one tank while cleaning it.


from one female? How many unfertile eggs?

What are you doing with all the froglets? I think there are not so many frog keepers in Costa Rica!?

Nice video, thanks for sharing it!

Yes just from one female, one huge mass of around 200 eggs and onother smaller of around 100, only about 10-15 unfertile eggs, it was funny cause all the unfertile eggs were together at the top of the masses.

I will release this tadpoles like the first time i bred them, this time in a remote coffe plantation near my house which is far from the city, there they have some plastic tubes i planted in the ground where they are actually breeding. There are no frog keepers here in Costa Rica, just some people who bred them to help certain populations of frogs like Brian Kubicki from the CRARC In situ Conservation Projects | Costa Rican Amphibian Research Center

[earthtiger]

Hi,


short update from yesterday:







At more and more one can see the development of the hindlegs:





kind regards,
Martin

[earthtiger]

Hi,


in the meanwhile, the first ones have left the water:










kind regards,
Martin