Considering the fact that Chacoan Horned frogs are commercially bred on such a large scale level, is it ethical to flood the market with hobbysit bred Pacman frogs?
I had recently purchased a trio of C. Cranwelli, one albino and two green, and had been planning to breed them when they matured. I have since considered otherwise.
Here are the cons: Chacoan Horned frogs are already well established in the pet industry and hobbyist level breeding may drive down the market and make commercial breeding programs less viable. It would be expensive considering the potential return investement would be so low. It would be more worthwhile to attempt to breed a less established species of frog such as the Budgetts frog, Stolzmanns Horned Frogs or C. Cornuta.
The pros; I could try my hand at breeding Cranwelli to gain experience at breeding these frogs (which I already have years of experience keeping as pets) and thus be better prepared and know a bit more what to expect when breeding other species. Color morphs are only recently starting to show up in the Cranwelli trade, and line breeding could make for some interesting possibilities, maybe. Also, there are very few local breeders of these frogs in my part of the US (Mn), which may give me an opportunity to sell the frogs at a local level to petshops and reptile specialty stores that currently have to sell them at higher prices than most other parts of the country, such as Florida and California, most people in mn breed boids, pythons, beardies and leopard/fat tail geckos, not pacman frogs. I could also sell them at midwestern reptile expos. The final and most interesting consideration would be establishing NATURALLY bred frogs, bred through cycling rather than hormonal injections which may produce larger and healthier frogs than generations of hormone injected breeding.
There dont seem to be too many people breeding these at the hobbyist level, should they be?





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