Ranitomeya ventrimaculata "Blackwater"

[John]

No photos I'm afraid - not yet. I got 2 of the Blackwater (Understory Enterprises line) Ranitomeya ventrimaculata from Josh's Frogs about 10 days ago, and just today I got 2 unrelated individuals from Brian of Brian's Tropicals. All are juveniles. These things can fly like rockets - an imitator has nothing on them. Does anyone else have vents? Have you bred them?

[Paul Rust]

Congrats John!!!
I have a promising pair of R.amazonica that some categorize as Iquitos, Red/Orange Vents. Mine are a bright metallic red with dark blue ventral surface and legs. Josh doesn't have a pic up on his site, are yours red anterior fading to yellow before the rear legs? Blackwaters are very beautiful, good luck with them.

[John]

I haven't looked that closely at them to be honest. Josh doesn't have a pic of these because they never breed for them, so they're never offered for sale - I saw they were having 2 of them at the Taylor, Michigan show, the weekend before last and I grabbed them.

[John]

Photos taken a few hours ago. I have 4 frogs, 2 from 2 different bloodlines of the "Blackwater" race. Here's 1 frog from Bloodline 1:



Here are 2 frogs from bloodline 2:

[Kurt]

Stunning!

[Ebony]

Wow!! beautiful

[RikoAustria]

Wow, John. They look fantastic! Don't you just wish you can fast forward to breeding age already?

[mikebannon]

WOOOOOW very pretty