Cruziohyla calcarifer

[flybyferns]

Day 7, this are definitely slower developers than Agalychnis annae and Agalychnis callidryas which always hatch around the 7-8 day. This species on the contrary are supposed to hatch in a period of 10 days.

Photo 4 is great !
I count 21 or 22 developing on that leaf?

[Leon1993]

Thanks for sharing pics Leon ! What do you plan to feed tadpoles?

You are welcome! I was feeding my A. annae and A. callidryas tadpoles "Tetramin Tropical Flakes" but i'm not sure if i will be feeding this ones the same.

Photo 4 is great !
I count 21 or 22 developing on that leaf?

Thank you! The first time i counted 24 fertile eggs but now that they are more developed if you look carefully you can count 23.

[flybyferns]

What are your plans?
Any organized conservation programs to help you release them, safely ?

[Leon1993]

What are your plans?
Any organized conservation programs to help you release them, safely ?

To be honest with you, i will have to wait and see in the next months, they are very few and right now i only have 2 adults to keep this breeding & conservation project ongoing. I'm planning to keep most of them at this moment, but you can be sure the next generations will be released in the wild. I have some good friends in the south caribean (Puerto Viejo) that were very interested in this project and they are also working on the conservation of this frogs in-situ, so there is the perfect place for them to be released, it is called "Jaguar Rescue Center" if you want to know more about this place you can go here: English - jaguarrescues Webseite!

[earthtiger]

IMHO, since there is a larger and a smaller variant of this species, allegedly with slightly different breeding strategies, therefore I think they only should be released in the area where the parents have been collected.

[Leon1993]

IMHO, since there is a larger and a smaller variant of this species, allegedly with slightly different breeding strategies, therefore I think they only should be released in the area where the parents have been collected.

Yes, you are right Martin i agree a 100% with you, that's the reason why i chose this place for them. The variety of frogs i keep are from the South Caribean (Puerto Viejo to be specific) apparently they are typically bigger than their counterparts. When i release a group of frogs in the wild i don't do it in a random zone without any precautions, i always follow a liberation protocol to avoid a medium-term environmental impact. The last time i released a group of Agalychnis callidryas in the wild we spent 3 nights in the place before releasing them, monitoring if the wild populations were healthy, the breeding places of the species, predators in the zone, feeding of the wild frogs and the amount of insects in the zone, but is always a sure thing less than a 50% will get to their adult & breeding stage.

[furcifer5]

Hi Leonel,

Great result!
I will be receiving some froglets of calcarifer soon, so I will be following your positngs on this species. Hopefully, I can share some information soon!

[flybyferns]

To be honest with you, i will have to wait and see in the next months, they are very few and right now i only have 2 adults to keep this breeding & conservation project ongoing. I'm planning to keep most of them at this moment, but you can be sure the next generations will be released in the wild. I have some good friends in the south caribean (Puerto Viejo) that were very interested in this project and they are also working on the conservation of this frogs in-situ, so there is the perfect place for them to be released, it is called "Jaguar Rescue Center" if you want to know more about this place you can go here: English - jaguarrescues Webseite!

Thank You
I look forward to looking at the website!
Lynn