Curious about a species of climbing toad...

[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.