Quinquevittatus

[skylsdale]

I sold the last of mine last spring/early summer...but occasionally wish I still had some. They really are a great frog, and as was said, appeared to do fine in groups. Plenty of leaf litter is a good thing with them.

[flapjax3000]

Originally Posted by edwing206

Great info Lee. Have you had any problems with SLS in the froglets? I read that there are currently two lines available and one is more prone to SLS than the other.

The tank that I described is one that I had just finished building specifically for this species. In a previous enclosure there were no signs of breeding, and due to the small terrestrial space they became reasonably skinny due to stress. They have been in this new tank for about a month now and all are healthy and active. I never really dig around my tanks to check on offspring, but I will check the pods every now and then to check for eggs. There are a couple people on the west coast who have had good success with breeding so hopefully they will chime in.

I havent heard of any major SLS problems with these frogs except from the info on the Dendroboard caresheet. With newer supplements such as Repashy and Vitamin A mixed into the diet perhaps the SLS rates will decline. A growing availability of small feeders also seems key to success of these frogs. I also use a clay/organic substrate as well to help with possible calcium deficiencies. With new feeders, supplements and substrates it will be hard to pinpoint which of these three new methods actually help. Still learning quite a bit myself.

In a separate thread sometime soon I will post my build thread, so I don't hijack this thread.

Could we possibly move this to the Species info section?

[edwing206]

Awesome, great info Lee!
I'll have to take this into account when I build the tank that will hopefully house these guys.
-Luis

[jbherpin]

Sometimes a frog just stands out to individuals... This one does for me! I very much enjoyed the pics courtesy of skylsdale(Thanks!!!), and find this thread a great resource that should soon be disected and made into a care sheet of sorts. I love the contrasting colors/patterns of this species! I would love to see more pics from others, and see what diversity is seen in these gems!

JBear

[ggazonas]

Ron

From the information you provided about the original frogs, does that mean there is only one line?

[ggazonas]

Ron

From the information you provided about the founder population in the US, does that mean there is only one line?

[JeremyHuff]

Did I miss something, are these now Ranitomeya or just placed in the wrong thread?

[Chris Miller]

Wrong thread and about to be moved.

What year did these come in? I saw in CITES data that Phil imported 'quinquevittatus' (quotes mine) in 2006 but I remember getting some along with Todd, Mark P and others in 99 or 2000.

[markpulawski]

The Boa Barn (Ron G & Paul Miles) brought many in in the late 90's along with what was then yellow Fants, many succumbed to Chytrid however a few survived. I believe most of these originate from a few different sources in Europe, I seem to remember the name Bernd Pieper. I believe he was also the one that told me that there was a population with watermelon colored legs, which he had but I have never seen pictues of or heard confirmation of. I don't know of any that did not come through European importation, likely different genetics exist however verifying that would be near impossible. I would suggest that all Quinqs could be mixed, it is 1 species and perhaps the above is a different locality but that has yet to be verified or seen here in the US.

[skylsdale]

Originally Posted by markpulawski

I don't know of any that did not come through European importation, likely different genetics exist however verifying that would be near impossible. I would suggest that all Quinqs could be mixed, it is 1 species and perhaps the above is a different locality but that has yet to be verified or seen here in the US.

This would be my opinion as well.

Based on that, George, I don't see why there would be any reason to split the captive population into various lines given what we currently have represented in the U.S. hobby.