Cruziohyla calcarifer

[Leon1993]

After half a year of trying to breed my couple of C. calcarifer i finally have success! i was too bussy with job last week to post some pictures of the rain chamber, this time i managed to make the rain as real as possible. I moved the frogs to the rain chamber this monday in the morning, the female was looking very gravid. The first night the male started calling very lately in the night (around 11:00PM - 12:00PM) but no amplexus, the second night he started calling a lot early (around 5:00PM - 6:00PM) after a couple of hours the male stopped calling, so i assumed they were in amplexus ( i didn't want to bother the frogs with any kind of light and the rain chamber was covered with a black blanket) This morning i came back from work and i found this huge egg mass, considering C. calcarifer only lay one mass of around 10 - 20 eggs i was very surprised with this one as it was around 30 - 40 blue eggs. I've bred A. annae and A. callidryas before, but i got to say this is one of the most curious leaf frogs regarding breeding habits, i will be definitely writing an article on the breeding habits of this animal probably for next year. If someone is interested on knowing more details i will gladly get back to you via PM. Now some pictures, the first ones are from the last week when the tank was without the rain system and without water: