Re: just to add to the list
I'm not sure I agree with the idea that the females being able to see one another is going to be a significant enough stressor in frogs set up in seperate tanks where they can't access one another. While it is true stress can kill frogs, I think too many things have been passed on anecdotally with no direct supportive evidence other than there was aggression the frogs died it was due to stress from the aggression... as typically no necropsies were performed to identify any underlying causes, this is pure speculation...
Also I have signficant doubts that female thumbnails and female tinctorius are going to attempt to interact through the glass. One of the things to consider is that in those species that female to female aggression, the females are not defending a territory but a resource such as a egg deposition site and a calling male.
As a purely anecdotal observation, if this was true then a number of larger breeders that have tanks next to one another without any visual barriers between the tanks should have seen huge amounts of "death due to stress from aggression" between the enclosures.....
There is already a lot of voodoo in this hobby without creating even more.....
Ed
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