Quote Originally Posted by LilyPad View Post
How do you make yourself slow down and enjoy the frogs you have before you forget who is who and don't even know their personalities anymore???
You know, I wish there was an easy answer for this but I know exactly what you mean. I try to be "strong" but it's hard not to want to get new things every now and then. I sort of have a deal with myself that if I want something new I have to get rid of something I already have. So let's say I want a new kind of dart frog, that means selling a kind I already have. I was pretty good at doing this for the past year but in the last couple of months I've gotten 4 new species (ack), though 2 are thumbnails so the space requirements aren't that huge. I did move 2 kinds of thumbnails, so overall I've gone up 2 species. I've told myself no more for the time being, unless I move something else.

I try to concentrate on what I have. For example, I spend a lot of time watching my adult Phyllobates terribilis - the ones on FrogTV channel 2. They call a lot, they interact a lot, they are constantly laying eggs, and there's always something new to see. I've observed definite social interactions that I haven't seen documented before. For example, one male is definitely ahead of the other two in the social order. He's the one the females want to mate with. I never see any aggression between the males, but one is definitely superior to the others. I've never heard of this being documented before. Also, I have now heard females calling in response to males many times. I had heard of this happening, but no one has a recording of it (I do now). It seems to happen when the female is particularly receptive to laying eggs. I would never have been able to observe these wonderful behaviors if I had twice as many kinds of frogs. Knowing that, it helps stop me from going crazy with the frog numbers!