about to fall off the wagon
I wonder if anybody remembers me from the early days (mid 1980's to early 1990's) when almost nobody in the USA knew how to keep & breed dart frogs. ??? I was one of the few - what might be termed "pioneers" in the "science/art" of keeping Dart Frogs. My name is Dale Bertram. I was the first American "non-professional" to breed D. aureus, which I had acquired from a Dutch friend named Eric Wevers. At that time the five adult frogs I acquired from Holland were the only ones in the US outside of the National Aquarium in Baltimore and the Cincinnati Zoo. They laid eggs for me the first day he brought them over from Holland. I bred and raised up hundreds of them and distributed them all over the country. Now they can be found in pet shops - amazing !
My frog adventures ended a few years later after Eric Wevers and I went to Saul French Guiana to collect yellow-back tinctorius. (We had a legitimate CITES permit from France.) I was the first American to collect this morph and successfully breed it. Again I distributed hundreds of them all over the country. After that trip my wife said it was either her or the frogs (I had become a man possessed) and I was forced into recovery. I admitted that I was powerless over frogs and that my life had become unmanageable - that is step #1 right ? Anyway, I became a recovering Frogaholic. Since then I have absolutely avoided looking at or reading about it - all these years, until today. Maybe I'll get another chance in the next life.
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