ACF breeding question

[Felis]

Hi,

I have one albino male ACF together with three wildtype females in a 42 g tank. They´re all young, healthy adult frogs and it´s so much fun watching them!
My male is trying to amplex the females sometimes, but they´re not willing to breed yet (poor Nelson ).
Anyhow, I would be interested in getting general information on which colour morphs can occur from albino x wildtype? I expect the wildtype to be dominant over the albino form, is this correct? Is it still possible to get some albino tadpoles? Just curious

Thanks in advance,
Julia

[Gemma]

Hi Julia,

You might be interested in this thread which I saw recently: http://www.frogforum.net/aquatic-cla...us-laevis.html

It has photos of albino x wild type babies. So cute!

[Felis]

Hi Gemma,

thank you very much for the link! Lovely pics!
Wow, I didn´t know that even reticulated albinos are possible (although it is more important to raise healthy frogs than to aim for a certain colour, of course)
How are your froglets doing?

[Gemma]

Neither did I until I saw that thread! I think they look lovely.
My tadpoles are doing well, thanks for asking. Some of them look just like tiny frogs now but with tails!

[tgampper]

Hi Julia:

ACF females become sexually mature at 9 months, males take up to a year. Both sexes will call. If the female is unresponsive to the male's advances, you may hear a slow, ticking sound like that of a clock. It is her way of telling him that she's not ready.

[Felis]

Hi,

@ Gemma: I´m glad to hear that your tadpoles are fine

@Terry: Thanks. That´s what I´ve read. My youngest female is about 10 months old, the other two are at least 18 months old (got them 2.5 months ago as adults; they were used for egg collection in a lab before, so it´s quite likely that they might be older than this). The male always made me wonder: I´ve bought him last july and he was really tiny back then (an inch maximum). He developed his nuptial pats only two months later; at this point he also started calling. He immediatly amplexed the first female I introduced about 3 weeks later. I just can´t imagine that he was "old enough" already, but still he is sexually active since then. The females make clicking sounds each time he tries to mate though, so I don´t expect them to spawn anytime soon

[Felis]

1rst pic: The male and my first female about 5 minutes after the female was moved into the tank
2nd pic: The same frogs about two weeks ago
3rd pic: The male and one of the new females

As you can see, Nelson´s trying really hard