Housing D. Tinc Alone

[Kiari43]

Originally Posted by Philsuma

Didn't your first post say you lost ONE frog and a second post say you lost TWO frogs?

If you did indeed loose two frogs @ 3 years of age....from the same viv.....I would really take a second hard look at what may have caused that before you make another aquisition. There may be a possible disease issue still present.

I lost 1 yesterday, I lost the other 6 months ago. And they were not 3 years old, they were at least 6 years old.

[housevibe7]

Originally Posted by Tony

Some also claim that blue sips, new rivers, and koetari are the same, but without definite collection data the responsible thing to do is keep them seperate. We can easily start breeding them together later on if they are confirmed to be a single population, but if we make a bunch of hybrids now and they are found to be seperate populations we will have potentially destroyed 5 morphs in the hobby.

And I believe what I was saying was that maybe she shouldn't just assume that the OP was putting two frogs together because their names were the same. No where in there did I say that we just should throw everything together.
Maybe someone can clarify for me. I have been always confused by the term hybrid when referring to tincs. I was under the impression that the term hybridizing was used for crossing separate species. Tincs all fall under the same species, but are just sub populations of the same species. They are all Dendrobates tinctorius 'Insert Population tag here." (Just for a disclaimer, I am by no means suggesting that everyone lump everything together because a tinc is a tinc is a tinc..... far from it, just trying to understand the term hybrid in this instance.)

[basshummper]

I looked up hybrid in my 40 year old dictionary. the first of three definitions is "the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially, the offspring produced by breeding plant or animals of different varieties, species, or races.

i think its safe to say that this deffinition is including subspecies and populations into hybridizing candidates.

[housevibe7]

Thanks for clearing that up Dylan... always been a bit confused by this.

[Tony]

Dylan nailed it, crossing morphs is considered hybridizing because they are geographically isolated and genetically distinct populations. This holds true for any species, not just tincs.