Cruziohyla calcarifer

[Leon1993]

IMHO, since there is a larger and a smaller variant of this species, allegedly with slightly different breeding strategies, therefore I think they only should be released in the area where the parents have been collected.

Yes, you are right Martin i agree a 100% with you, that's the reason why i chose this place for them. The variety of frogs i keep are from the South Caribean (Puerto Viejo to be specific) apparently they are typically bigger than their counterparts. When i release a group of frogs in the wild i don't do it in a random zone without any precautions, i always follow a liberation protocol to avoid a medium-term environmental impact. The last time i released a group of Agalychnis callidryas in the wild we spent 3 nights in the place before releasing them, monitoring if the wild populations were healthy, the breeding places of the species, predators in the zone, feeding of the wild frogs and the amount of insects in the zone, but is always a sure thing less than a 50% will get to their adult & breeding stage.

[furcifer5]

Hi Leonel,

Great result!
I will be receiving some froglets of calcarifer soon, so I will be following your positngs on this species. Hopefully, I can share some information soon!

[earthtiger]

update! update! We wanna see an update! =:-)

[Leon1993]

Hi,

Sorry but i've been very busy lately. Tadpoles hatched last week, it took them 19 days to hatch. They are big tadpoles with a very dark colour, some pictures from last week:



They have grown a lot since last week, i'm very surprised how fast they are growing. I will post recent pictures tomorrow.

[earthtiger]

Thanks for the update!

What are you feeding the tadpoles?

According to the literature I have, the tadpoles like to lay on the ground. It might be an idea to put some leaf litter in the tank, that the tadpoles can hide if they like to.

kind regards,
Martin

[Mentat]

Great news and thanks for update Leon !

[Leon1993]

More good news! After a period of two weeks of laying the eggs the female started to look gravid again, i didn't even cycle her this time. I decided to move them into the rain chamber last saturday and today i found the couple in amplexus swimming in the water, at around 9:30AM they started laying another eggs mass.




This ones will be definitely released in the Jaguar rescue center reserve.