Colorful Mantella's

[Jeff Kennedy]

Looking for some nice examples for a new Mantella set-up. Please PM me if you have any or know of where to get some. Thanks!

[Kurt]

Personally, I like Mantella laevigata, M. aurantiaca, M. baroni, and M. expectata. Of course not all in the same enclosure. Have you ever kept mantellas?

[Mordecai]

We currently have one right now, (Mantella aurantiaca). He is a very active little guy, or he was up until we moved him to a larger terrarium last week. Now he hides in one spot under some moss almost all day. Would adding more Mantellas possibly provoke him to come out more often, or make him feel safer?

[Kurt]

Give him a chance to settle in. You can add some more Mantella aurantiaca, but quarantine them for 30 days before adding them to the terrarium. Do not add any other mantella species to the mix, stick with aurantiaca.

[Jeff Kennedy]

Hey Kurt, do you know if the Golden Mantella's vary in color from shades of yellow to orange? The one we have right now is a beautiful, vivid orange but we'd love to find a yellow one so that we could tell them apart.

[Kurt]

As far as I know they don't. There were red ones, but I believe the have been reclassified as their own seperate species. That being said, I have never seen the red ones for sale. I think once you get to know your frogs well, you should be able to tell them apart from each otherwithout a problem.