My Mantella Collection.

[MantellaGuy]

Hi Mantella Guy,

You have made my day with these gorgeous photos! I am considering mantellas as my next species, but have heard they need cooler temperatures. My summertime viv Temps can reach 79. Is that too warm do you think? Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Judy

Hey Judy,

Well thank you very much for the kind words and for looking Very kind! Mantella are a very underestimated genus I personally thingk and that they should be kept more widely lol Hmmmm I would say that a majority of the genus wouldn't be able to handle temperatures as high as that unless you can get an AC unit? The only species that would tolerate Temperatures that high and higher would be the Mantella expectata that can live in temperatures as high as 28-30'c but don't forget that this can be for only short periods of time, the wild doesn't have a thermostat!

I do have a list of temperatures for each of the 16 members of the genus somewhere so I shall write it out for you

Josh

[MantellaGuy]

Thought I would give this a little bump, shall be uploading new photos soon!

[MantellaGuy]

Hi all,

Thought I would upload some photographs of my Green Mantella (Mantella viridis) adults and some of the offspring that I have currently (I won't be too optimistic as I have had crashes before which I have been devastated by).









I have 15 Tadpoles in total which I consider a good batch, I hope you enjoy the photos!!

Merry Christmas,

Josh

[flybyferns]

Exciting !
Keep us posted !

Merry Christmas to you as well, Josh

Best , Lynn

[MantellaGuy]

Exciting !
Keep us posted !

Merry Christmas to you as well, Josh

Best , Lynn

Haha shall do, I must admit I am buzzing because these are offspring from a unrelated bloodline which always makes me happy!

I have some more to upload, but it would be too nice of me to post them all up in one go lol

I hope you have a lovely Holiday!

Kind regards,

Josh

[MantellaGuy]

Hi all,

Time for yet again, another update If you have been following my Racking System build then you would of seen this here (Click the Hyperlink) and the past week I have playing around with a few of my 400x400x400mm False Bottom Terrariums.

I have in total 7 Mantella species (9 when I finally my M.cowanni and M.milotympanum and with each of the species I have many groups of unrelated bloodlines which I keep separate, so when you see my exhibits below these will be for a single bloodline.

So now, without further ado here they are, not happy with one of them but shall replant it when I get my new Plants delivered;


^ ^ - 2 out 9 species have been made brand new enclosures! Left exhibit will house 1 of my 4 bloodlines of Mantella viridis and Right exhibit will house 1 of my 2 bloodlines of Mantella betsileo.


^ ^ - 1.1.0 Mantella betsileo exhibit, I have made it more crowded with many places to hide as they are, due to be less Aposematic, less bold than some of the genus.


^ ^ - Close up of the 1.1.0 Mantella betsileo exhibit.


^ ^ - 1.2.0 Mantella viridis exhibit, I am not that happy with this and kind of had to make do with some of the spare plants I had from previous builds. More open than the M.betsileo exhibit as I found the species to be very bold, nearly as bold as Mantella aurantiaca. Will be refurnishing this with more Fittonia species and like all my Terrariums, I will be painting on Moss Spores when I receive them.


^ ^ - Close up of the 1.2.0 Mantella viridis exhibit. The Peperomia clusiifolia I doubt will be able to stay in there but as a temporary thing I am sure it will be fine, it will go into my Scaphiophyrne gottlebei exhibit though as I know it prefers drier substrates.

Anyway, hope you like the Terrariums but they will need a lot of work, I will be putting the individuals in the Terrariums on Christmas eve/day though, the Aquarium Grade Sealant would have stopped smelling by then (I know that it is Solvent free but no harm leaving it the last couple of days! lol).

Merry Christmas,

Josh

[flybyferns]

Hi Josh,

Very nice !

How are you attaching the coco coir panels?
I like that as well -- nice and thin.
I have seen so many different suggestions.

Have you ever seen it available in large rolls without the possibility of any chemicals or additives?
I have purchased small rolls made by 'All living Things'
I saw a enclosure once (? forget where ) that had 2 thin layers on the back wall.
Pockets were made in the top layer for roots and cuttings! It was beautiful.