Scaphiophryne Gottlebei

[Tony]

I am hopeful with time and increasing interest explosive breeders will begin to be bred more often too.

Convince people to pay a decent price for them. It takes a huge amount of time and money to raise the large clutches from explosive breeders, and the hobby at large is not willing to pay any more than they would for a half-dead import. I had wholesalers offering me $3 per froglet for my last batch of A. annae, a frog that was nearly extinct in the hobby two years ago, what do you think a little brown bufonid would bring in?

[SethD]

I had wholesalers offering me $3 per froglet for my last batch of A. annae, a frog that was nearly extinct in the hobby two years ago, what do you think a little brown bufonid would bring in?

Having a few 2nd generation CB little brown(which was disappointing as I was hoping for leucistic) bufonids that morphed out just a little while ago I assure you not much if I even bothered offering them for sale. That isn't why most of us do it though. It is a hobby not a business. Pipa pipa, rococo toads, or several other species would probably sell ok for a while if one was to put effort into breeding those. So would the suriname atelopus that have been recently been imported again as they will tap into the poison frog fanciers market. Part of my point was that the market is pretty small overall and quickly saturated except the market for frogs that can be considered "pets" sold to people who have no other frogs. Even that market would be saturated pretty quickly if it wasn't for the fact that there are so few breeders.