Curious about a species of climbing toad...

[EZweasel]

This could go in the toad section as well as this section since toads are still considered frogs and the one that I am asking about is actually a climbing toad. I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the Yellow Spotted Climbing toad. I can't find anywhere to purchase one of these except in post from more than 5 years ago in various forums on the internet. They seem really expensive but cool none the less. Any information at all would be appreciated greatly.

[Tony]

They are sporadically available as imports from Malaysia, as far as I know they have not been bred in captivity. jkooiman or SethD could probably provide some good care info.

[wesleybrouwer]

Lovely species, one of my favourites.
Who happen to have been bred in captivity
In my photo album, 1 juvenile female from around 6 months can be seen.



I will look my harddrive for some more pictures, i know they have to be there somewhere.

[wesleybrouwer]

I just noticed there where more pictures in my album on them,

This is one from about 2 weeks of age:




They already started hassling the females around 6 months.



Already witnessed the first amplexed couples around the time the males started to practice calling.




This reminds me to grab the camera more often, i didn't make pictures for a while


Here one of my adult females, i won a photo contest with it, so i couldn't help showing her off

[Tony]

Nice work Wesley, I'm glad to be wrong on this one.

[EZweasel]

Lovely species, one of my favourites.
Who happen to have been bred in captivity
In my photo album, 1 juvenile female from around 6 months can be seen.



I will look my harddrive for some more pictures, i know they have to be there somewhere.

This is really an awsome species. Thank you for posting these. Maybe I can get some one day.

[wesleybrouwer]

They seem to be sporadicly exported,
main problem is (was) that they just catch females, since the males look like an uninteresting species to them.

With these species, it is difficult to get males, just the other way around then normal frog imports.

I found the freshly imported frogs rather fragile, most of them are heavily parasitised,
treating is a disaster as well, since they seem to be water proof, except for a small portion of the underside.
They take up water with this, dosing is rather difficult this way.

What i noticed was that the male have an even higher mortality rate then the females.
More then once i ordered some additional males, just to find them dead in the boxes.
Females seem to be a little stronger, altough i lost a couple of them as well.

I know got a healthy group, established for over a year or 1,5-2,
containing 2 males and 5 females.
They costed me a fortune, but i think it's worth every penny to me.
I bought most of the males at €125 ($175) each and the females at €185($260) each,
imagine how it hurt to see them die on you

Hopefully we will see more of this species in the hobby soon
Altough around here, most people are only focussing on the poison darts.
I don't think i will sell lots of the offspring around here unfortunately.


The tads and juveniles are hard to raise as well.
I praise myself lucky to have 9 remaining that has past the seemingly critical stage of 6-9 months.
From the sporadical breeding efforts, all of them experienced the same problem raising them to adulthood.
The few tads that became toadlets didn't make it past the 6 months.
Mine are now over a year, but still not fully grown i think, they are still a lot smaller then the WC parents.
Hopefully everything goes well, so i'll be able to breed the first F2 generation i know off.

Fingers crossed


By the way, this is what is a big problem with this species,
tapeworms, and lots of them.
This is from one stool of a female i got in.
Never seen a species with that much tapeworms in it.

[EZweasel]

They seem to be sporadicly exported,
main problem is (was) that they just catch females, since the males look like an uninteresting species to them.

With these species, it is difficult to get males, just the other way around then normal frog imports.

I found the freshly imported frogs rather fragile, most of them are heavily parasitised,
treating is a disaster as well, since they seem to be water proof, except for a small portion of the underside.
They take up water with this, dosing is rather difficult this way.

What i noticed was that the male have an even higher mortality rate then the females.
More then once i ordered some additional males, just to find them dead in the boxes.
Females seem to be a little stronger, altough i lost a couple of them as well.

I know got a healthy group, established for over a year or 1,5-2,
containing 2 males and 5 females.
They costed me a fortune, but i think it's worth every penny to me.
I bought most of the males at €125 ($175) each and the females at €185($260) each,
imagine how it hurt to see them die on you

Hopefully we will see more of this species in the hobby soon
Altough around here, most people are only focussing on the poison darts.
I don't think i will sell lots of the offspring around here unfortunately.


The tads and juveniles are hard to raise as well.
I praise myself lucky to have 9 remaining that has past the seemingly critical stage of 6-9 months.
From the sporadical breeding efforts, all of them experienced the same problem raising them to adulthood.
The few tads that became toadlets didn't make it past the 6 months.
Mine are now over a year, but still not fully grown i think, they are still a lot smaller then the WC parents.
Hopefully everything goes well, so i'll be able to breed the first F2 generation i know off.

Fingers crossed


By the way, this is what is a big problem with this species,
tapeworms, and lots of them.
This is from one stool of a female i got in.
Never seen a species with that much tapeworms in it.

Do you have any that you would be willing to sell? I would deffinately be interested. If not that's ok.