Quote Originally Posted by wesleybrouwer View Post
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No offence, but i think the viv of 20 gal is quit small for these frogs.
Especially since they are easily around 3-3,5 inch each.
If i am right, a 20 gallon tank high is 24" x 12" x 16".
I used to quarantaine them in a 52 gallon viv i believe, altough i am not used to measure in gallons.
It is actually a 20 gallon long set up as a vertical and I would not argue that it is on the small side. Size would be 30" x 12" x 12" in inches. I used it because it was what I had available when I first got them. I had planned to increase the size later after they were established but they seemed to do quite well as is and space is tight so I never bothered. If I was going recommend a tank to set up from scratch for a pair a 40 gal breeder tank set up as a vertical with lots of branches would be just about right in my opinion.


In my experience they do need the cycle to get gravid, i use a dry/hot period followed by a colder/wet period in wich i heavily feed, that seems to be working best for me.
I don't see and hear much from them when it is dry and warm (30-32 degrees C)
but as soon as it is getting wetter the males will start chasing the girls.
Can it be that the little ventilation is a trigger in you're case? Cooling down at night, getting the humidity up ?
Could be, never bred them myself and was just going by what I had heard. As far as what triggers my male sometimes, I don't think that is it as sometimes he goes after the female during the day and sometimes at night and the humidity is always pretty high(false bottom tank) though not so high as to fog up the glass.. Like you say though males are not usually that hard to get interested with most toad species and the issue is usually getting the females to lay eggs.