HELP! Bringing home darts....

[MichaelS]

Again, I hate to disagree,

It doesn't look like you hate to disagree. It looks like you like to disagree. Marcus does a good job with his Tinctorious guide but it is not all inclusive. The pictures of the suspected crossbreeds are not clear enough to tell anything.

[John]

I have to confess that I scrolled through the thread to see if there were pictures _before_ I read anything that was said about hybrids, and my first thought was "nice aur... wait a second, those look like hybrids". So I'm with the folks saying hybrid.

[daziladi]

I would be in heaven with a 90 gallon tank! Gratz on your new frogs, looks like your patience paid off. Hope you post bigger photos when you can.

[JimO]

It doesn't look like you hate to disagree. It looks like you like to disagree.

No, not really. Just trying to help out. If the OP gets a positive ID that proves me completely wrong, I'm fine with that.

[MichaelS]

I would like to see an in focus picture of the frogs. I've seen a lot of variety in tinctorious including F1s from wild. Without knowing lineage sometimes it's difficult to say what they are.

[JBear]

I have seen one of my local pet shops have(very young) tincs, auratus, azies, and leucs in the same tank. When I questioned them on it, they said they do it that way b/c they are not sexually mature yet. The problem lies in that someone comes in off the street and sees them all housed together and makes assumptions. In the end they potentially all get bought and thrown into a genetic mixer under improper care. I can easily see how people can create these hybrids through nothing more than lack of knowledge and ignorance. It is a shame...

I agree that the frogs shown in the culture cup look like tinc+auratus. They look too long and also, as JimO said, the leg patterning is just off to be auratus full.In my opinion, probably some non hybrids(from original buy), and then some offspring showing the hybridization. That would explain the variety in the morphology, as from my own experience, babies tend to carry certain group traits by clutch.

JBear