Tarapoto came ootw black? - Page 2

kgb · #11 (**permalink**) 01-12-2012, 02:59 AM

Fuzzy, but you get the idea

james67 · #12 (**permalink**) 01-12-2012, 03:12 AM

its relatively common in tor line tarapota. this is a genetic trait and IME seems to occur most frequently in male frogs. these have no reason not turn out to be healthy adults

its not unreasonable to use this frog for breeding purposes, but ONLY in rotation with other frogs to eliminate a truly unbalanced ratio of this gene's presence in the hobby.

james

kgb · #13 (**permalink**) 01-12-2012, 05:01 AM

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Originally Posted by james67

its relatively common in tor line tarapota. this is a genetic trait and IME seems to occur most frequently in male frogs. these have no reason not turn out to be healthy adults

its not unreasonable to use this frog for breeding purposes, but ONLY in rotation with other frogs to eliminate a truly unbalanced ratio of this gene's presence in the hobby.

james

So its not that special

I was excited like it was some rarity but guess NBD

james67 · #14 (**permalink**) 01-12-2012, 05:06 AM

i didnt mean to be a buzzkill. i would guess that there are less than 100 in collections in the
US (purely a guess based on how many ive heard of from other members with them) so they are still pretty rare.

james

EricM · #15 (**permalink**) 01-12-2012, 04:17 PM

The founder stock of this line was pretty small as were most of the "imported" frogs that came into the hobby over the last few decades. Like James mentioned the melanistic trait is pretty common in this line, I see it in about 5% of the froglets that morph out, they seem to be weaker than the normal colored ones and I've had few to live past a year. If the founding stock was larger it would probably be a rare sight to see and more "special".

Good luck with them they are really nice frogs
Eric

kgb · #16 (**permalink**) 02-11-2012, 05:38 PM

Updated pic, seems to be healthy. Definitely smaller than his sibling

flapjax3000 · #17 (**permalink**) 02-11-2012, 05:43 PM

I have kept a few of these myself and all were strong, healthy frogs. I thought they were really cool to have, except trying to find them sometimes. The black color made it a bit harder to spot them.