Theloderma asperum breeding

[Eric Walker]

I had some problems with loading and viewing photos on the first thread I started. I had it deleted and will start a new one now that it seems the problem is fixed.

Ill start with a picture of my current breeding setup. Its a 30gallon setup for ease of teardown after a few months since I only allow them to breed for 3-4 months before removing them for a break. There is about two inches of water in the bottom. The clay pots double as pothos planters and a place for egg laying. My original wc.group really liked to lay on the clay pots. They even crawled in through The hole and would lay inside. Im assuming they really liked the security of the dark. My cb seem to prefer wood and even the glass itself.



they can be kept this way permanently if desired but I have found it hard to hault breeding in this type setup to give them a needed rest. So I move them into a setup with absolutely no water source other then a small water dish every so often.

[Eric Walker]

I found more eggs within another 24 hours laid in the same place. This species lays really small clutches. Typically 4-5 once every 3-4 weeks. I found the fist eggs this round not even 24 hours after i placed them in

[Eric Walker]

As you can see in the last post they turn a really dark brown and black when in the water but when they have been out for awhile they will show some incredible carmel coloration and the white patch on the rear will also show up. This is a female hanging out in the floating feed station yesterday mourning. I feed this way to keep crickets out of the water as much as possible so they retain supplements and don't drowned. they are actually pigs for being such a small species.

[Eric Walker]

Little belly shot. They like to hang out just above the water and dive in when you walk near just like corticale.they are really quick swimmers and use both hind legs at the same time to swim unlike my cinnamon treefrogs which do the opposite and alternate the hind legs when swimming

[Eric Walker]

Crapy photo but funny. Here is a shot of a male amplexing another male who is amplexing a female. I actually reached in and broke this frogpile up. He actually had her by The hind leg instead of a normal amplexus. You sorta see it

[Eric Walker]

This was the tank I raised up my f1 holdbacks in for quite some time.



And a really nice shot of one right at the two year mark right before I placed into a breeding setup for the first time. they will breed before 2 years but I wanted to make sure that my f1 were plenty old enough before putting them through breeding. I wasn't in any rush with them.

[Eric Walker]

A few more good shots of adults

[Eric Walker]

Here's a nice shot of them in amplexus from awhile back

[Eric Walker]

This is how I deal with eggs I have to fish out of the water when they get knocked off the surface they were laid on. I have 3 out of 11 right now i had to rescue from the water. All are fertile and developing well.

[Eric Walker]

Here's a good close up of some fertile eggs on a clay pot just starting to show a hint of development.





well that's all the photos I have for now. Any questions, fire away. Thanks for looking

[Lija]

thank you so much Eric for posting this, very informative!

[Raya]

Great pictures! Thanks alot for sharing this.

How much water do you have in the holdback-tank? Hard to tell from the picture.

[Eric Walker]

Here's a nice shot of them in amplexus from awhile back

In the breeding setup i normally start with around 2 inches. Every so often ill raised it up about a half inch with fresh cool water to simulate a tree hollow filling with rainwater since that is where this species is found to breed. Ill let it get up to about 4 inches deep before use a siphon to remove some of the dead crickets and poop from the bottom. I don't like to cover to cover too much of the clay pots with water since they like to lay on them. I forgot to mention that iv raised tadpoles both in tank and out and they grow much quicker in tank. For some reason my f1 tad had a big problem with cannibalism even in tank with all that space. I lost quite a few because of it the first year breeding. with my f2f tad i haven't seen it happen once. But i also haven't been raising them in more then one per delicup either. All seems to go well in the tank with them too. Kinda strange.

[Eric Walker]

In the breeding setup i normally start with around 2 inches. Every so often ill raised it up about a half inch with fresh cool water to simulate a tree hollow filling with rainwater since that is where this species is found to breed. Ill let it get up to about 4 inches deep before use a siphon to remove some of the dead crickets and poop from the bottom. I don't like to cover too much of the clay pots with water since they like to lay on them. I forgot to mention that iv raised tadpoles both in tank and out and they grow much quicker in tank. For some reason my f1 tad had a big problem with cannibalism even in tank with all that space. I lost quite a few because of it the first year breeding. with my f2 tads i haven't seen it happen once. But i also haven't been raising them in more then one per delicup either. All seems to go well in the tank with them too. Kinda strange.

[nryland]

thank you so much for the information and the wonderful photos, much appreciated