Who's working with A. quinquevittatus?

[tclipse]

Thought I'd try to bring some attention to another beautiful species that doesn't appear too often in the hobby.. I'm willing to bet that a fair amount of new members haven't even heard of them before.

I've seen a few in classifieds recently (Shawn H and Alex007), and saw them in person at Scott Menigoz's last year, amazing little frogs. Anyone else working with these?

I would love to see pics, I'm surprised we don't hear about these more than we do.

[JeremyHuff]

I am working with them. Not very prolific for me. They only lay 1-2 eggs at a time. Just passed my first progeny over to Richard (woodsman). They are gorgeous little frogs.

[ExoticPocket]

Are they hard to keep or is it that the frog wasn't imported in large volume? Love the look of their legs.

[tclipse]

Originally Posted by ExoticPocket

Are they hard to keep or is it that the frog wasn't imported in large volume? Love the look of their legs.

Difficult to breed, don't produce much, & SLS rates are pretty high (from what I've heard)

[ggazonas]

I have them but they seem to be all females...Its been 3 years that i've been keeping them.

[srrrio]

I believe I am in the same position George. Now that shipping weather is better for me I thought I would start searching for a male or 2. I recently moved mine to a new tank so I took the opportunity for a quick group shot. I rarely see more then 2 of them out at a time so it was nice to find that I still had my 3. Their old tank did not have a background, I thought perhaps one with sides and back might make them a bit bolder. I Can't say it made a difference.



This would be my one and only decent shot!



Sallt

[MELLOWROO421]

I am also working with them. They began breeding about 6-8 months ago for me pretty regularly. I ended up with 8 good tads then they took a break. They have just recently began laying again. By far one of my favorite frogs I'm working with. pretty skittish in my experience with them.

[JeremyHuff]

Originally Posted by srrrio

Sallt

I would say those are all female. My males are about 70-80% the size of my females. I seem to have a 3.3 group, although I am very tempted to break it up into 3 1.1 groups in case there is egg eating happening.

Does anyone know of a call recording available for this species?

J

[InnoEcto]

We have what looks to be 2.2. They do breed, but as has already been mentioned, they are very sporadic. They just started giving us eggs again, after a long break (roughly a whole year). They just don't seem to be a very prolific species. We got ours from Phil Tan. I believe he still works with them, and produces them regularly.

[ggazonas]

mine are all the same size and appear female. They seem to be very bold though and are one of the frogs I can usually count on seeing when I go into the frogroom.

If anyone has an extra male I'd be very interested.