Black feet & arms at 4 months?

[Jenste]

He might be maturing early but that does not usually mean your females are also. Breeding young can negatively impact the females health and overbreeding, especially when young, can even kill a female. Best wait until she is over 18 months of age before you attempt breeding the lady's and no more than one breeding per 3 months and no more than 3-4 breedings a year.

For the girls health, you may want to look into having 2 tanks - a bachelor pad and a bachelorette pad. Considering they are siblings, no breedings should be done.

[mpmistr]

Is it really bad to mix females/males though? I only have three ACF and I'm setting up a 40gallon breeder for them and I wouldn't want to separate them.

[Jenste]

I wouldn't say it is "bad" but caution should be used to limit breeding for the well being of the female. It takes great energy to produce that many eggs and it can be extremely straining to her body.

If matings keep occurring then separation, even by making a divider in the tank, should be done to allow the females to rest.

Staple, warm temperatures also help. Drops in temperature to cooler temps stimulate breeding. Stable tank temp kept 75+ *F keep mating to a minimum. Even a few degrees drop can between night and day can be enough for an amorous male.

[emberlisa]

He might be maturing early but that does not usually mean your females are also. Breeding young can negatively impact the females health and overbreeding, especially when young, can even kill a female. Best wait until she is over 18 months of age before you attempt breeding the lady's and no more than one breeding per 3 months and no more than 3-4 breedings a year.

For the girls health, you may want to look into having 2 tanks - a bachelor pad and a bachelorette pad. Considering they are siblings, no breedings should be done.

Hi. I suspected that I may have to separate the mature male from the others. I’m really uncertain about anyone’s sex except for his. I’d been thinking all along that I had 1 male and 2 females because I thought 2 were developing a tail, and their bodies were more plum shaped and they were larger than the 1 I thought/now know is male. Now I think at least 1 other has light grayish black on one palm so who knows. My green anole just died last week. He lived in a 10 galloon so I can move the male frog in there and I’ll put other males in with him when they catch up. Thanks for answering my question and spreading the knowledge!!

I definitely agree that siblings should not be bred, although some people on this site have said it wouldn’t affect their genetics too much. I think it would. Why spend time and money raising tadpoles to sell if there’s a chance they won’t make it through metamorphosis or they will be deformed? I actually think these siblings may have been inbred already. 3 frogs are normal looking, and the 4 others seem healthy except they’re small and have what appear to be deformed back claws. I keep the water levels low because they spend all their time on the bottom.