Observations:

- The croton plants aren't coping very well with the environmental needs of the mantellas. The leaves have started to fall off. Been cutting them up and making debris with them. The Mantellas liked hanging out in the plants for some reason. The schefflera plants are doing very well but the mantellas don't appear to have any interest in them. Going to introduce a few other small tropical plants. The ivy that I introduced 2 weeks ago is doing well and the mantellas retreat to them whenever I am working on habitat maintenance. I may take a few cuttings and spread the ivy around more.

- The Mantellas seem to like to burrow. One in particular will move around the moss / leaf bits and make a small cave to back up into. I haven't seen that type of behaviour in any of my other frogs / toads. I haven't noticed any territorial stance yet which suggests that they both may be female. They more or less hang out together in the left side of the habitat near the largest clump of ivy.

- I, at this point, assume that they are females as I have heard no calling at all and have seen no territorial related behaviour. I haven't excluded the fact that I have only had them about a month, that I may not have introduced the correct dry / wet or light cycles in their habitat to trigger the mating, or maybe they are simply settling in still.

- They seem to be doing ok on the larder beetle grubs and the periodic tiny meal worm. They have continued to ignore the pinhead crickets. I can't wait until a couple of more months when I can wild forage small bugs from my backyard. It is against the law here in Cape Breton to use any type of chemicals on our lawns so I know the pollution level is absent.