Golden Sedge Frogs (Hyperolius Puncticulatus),

[tgampper]

Hi Steve:

They are beautiful frogs. I did find a description of these frogs in my Malawi frog field guide, it might help you in positively identifying your frogs:

"Color golden or brown; a broad light band, heavily outlined in black, bordering the upper margin of snout,often continuing over and behind eyes and along dorsolateral position. Behind eyes, line may be broken into spots. Black dots sometimes present on back and legs; heel often with light spot, but no light spots on outer surfaces of legs. Length 1.75 inches (43 mm)".

Evidently there is a great variation in color and patterns in this species. Females are larger.Males have a distinct yellow gular disc over the vocal sac. Length of disc is two-thirds its width and the margins are dotted with fine black pigment cells. Hope this helps!

[tgampper]

Sorry for the multiple threads. There is a web site you may be interested in about breeding Hyperolius puncticulatus Hyperolius puncticulatus

[tylototriton]

Steve-
Congrats, they look like beautiful frogs. Your set up sounds great as well, thats usually the recommended set up for any Hyperolids.

Best of Luck,
Alex

[StephenLS]

Thanks for alll the info guys, much appreciated.


Steve

[John]

My hat is off to Terry on this one - thank you for going the extra mile.

[Buck Rogers]

Sorry for the late reply on this, you know there are so many species of Hyperolius in Africa that for me to give you spot on advice will not really help you.

I can tell you a bit about the species we have in Southern Africa and that might help. Most live around water pans that dry up in winter. Temps in the day around water holes/pans get hot and humid, evenings are also warm (I would say mid to high 20 degrees C) and also humid in Summer months. Winter months would get dry but hot and maybe a bit chillier in the evenings. Heavy rainfalls, usually late afternoon and evening showers, its very rare to have morning or mid day showers. I would think they feed on small flying insects, mosquitoes and perhaps small spiders. I tried keep a similar species a while back and had low success rates, but I think my temps were not high enough.

I would consider a set up to be all water, with a fish tank heater in to raise temps and humidity, plants in ceramic holders and even some bamboo and such. They will not come down to land or swim, but this is natural to what they live like.

As I said this is just based on my observations of similar species and may not be spot on.

[salad dodger]

i have a pair of these & have been keeping them in a 12x12x12 exo
i have about 2 1/2 - 3" of really moist coir & a gravel filled water dish
the tank is lightly planted & they spend most of the day half concealed
night time is a different matter though , they are really active & noisy .
they are thriving on size 1 crix which i dust once weekly .
ive had them for about 10 months now & have to say they are extremely entertaining .
if i had to pick a favourite of all my phibs i think these would be top of the list .
im hoping to expand my colony at the next ahs at donny as they are always available there (not far from you)