ISO: White's Tree Frog (Litoria Caerulea) Fertile Eggs

[irThumper]

Probably not this year, but I'm looking well in advance so I'll be ready when some are found. I'm wanting to try the process of hatching out and raising tads before I give breeding my own frogs a try, so if you're a small breeder and don't want to raise up hundreds at one time (and can give me a reasonable price on fertilized eggs) keep me in mind. Thanks!

[CaliKiid]

I don't have any eggs but I do have a male juvenile white tree frog and would sell for a reasonable price?

[irThumper]

Thanks, but just looking for eggs at the moment. I just want to try hatching and raising tads to froglets before I risk my frog kids by putting them through the stress of a breeding cycle. Saving up funds for an adult honey or yellow phased blue eyed morph to be used as a future breeder with my blue-eyed pale phase female.

[packer43064]

Thanks, but just looking for eggs at the moment. I just want to try hatching and raising tads to froglets before I risk my frog kids by putting them through the stress of a breeding cycle. Saving up funds for an adult honey or yellow phased blue eyed morph to be used as a future breeder with my blue-eyed pale phase female.

I'm just wondering here, but why do you think breeding is stressful?

Frogs, reptiles, tomato plants, what have you breed or reproduce because it is instinct nature for them to do so. I'm not saying that some frogs might not get a kick out of breeding (having sex) like humans do, but they mostly breed because it is in their nature.

Not that breeding might be stressful at all, but it happens all the time in the wild. I know that African Clawed Frogs breed or can breed up to 4x a year (every 3 months). As long as your frog or toad is healthy I don't see any problem with breeding.

I even wonder if not breeding as much as in the wild can harm them too? I mean if a ACF can breed with a male and lay eggs in matter of hours she obviously has eggs ready to go. Normally she lays those eggs every 3 months or so. In captivity she might not even breed at all, could that affect her? Idk.

Not trying to cause a ruckus, it just passed my mind. I don't think breeding is some super stressful period of their lives.

[deranged chipmunk]

In nature it is not as stressful as it is in captivity. In nature, seasonal changes trigger the breeding season gradually. When we breed tree frogs in captivity, we "cycle" them in a brief period of time (compared to nature), which includes allowing their tank to dry out, and with holding food until they get fed like pigs right before going into the rain chamber. It can be very stressful on them.

Remember, even in this day and age, even human childbirth is a life threatening condition. Believe it or not.


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[irThumper]

^^ What Bill said!