Dendrobates truncatus lines/imports

[EricM]

Chuck,

the english couple were Bob and Valerie Davies, they wrote a spiral paperback on breeding frogs with "drawings" of vivariums and three color photos. It was published in 1991.

The blue truncs came in through Samples and all went to Todd.

Eric

[El Saptio Joyas]

Originally Posted by valledelcauca

Maybe interesting for those of you who keep truncatus: They love basking and live in pretty much any habitat you can imagine.
Got some pictures of truncatus in my blog...
Blogotá

This is great info - Thanks

when you observed them in the wild, did they tend to pair off or did you notice them in groups?

What part of Colombia did you take your photos of the truncs? Did you see any blue/green on that trip or any prior?

Thx
Scott

[valledelcauca]

Anyone here who has the location of the blue truncatus? PM me please ;-) Just for taking some pictures...

[El Saptio Joyas]

Originally Posted by valledelcauca

Anyone here who has the location of the blue truncatus? PM me please ;-) Just for taking some pictures...

An older thread on this board had a poster saying the blue truncs were from the Choco region (not exactly site specific). Another fellow had a website (stated earlier in this post) of someone exporting Orchids and frogs legally ( a few people emailed the guy - me also- but he never responded. Seems that website host was older) - this guy (maybe Dutch) was from Cauca and had pics of truncs with much broader blue strips. So its possible you could find Truncs that far west. In a different state, I saw a pic that someone had taken in Tayrona Ntl Park (Santa Marta) of a green Trunc - they asked if anyone knew what kind of frog it was. There was not a response post, but I am 98% it was a Trunc.

Next time I visit my mother in law, the wife was going to take me to Santa Marta and another park @ Magdalena river where she used to swim as a kid. I was hoping to get some pics of the frogs and habitat.

[valledelcauca]

Hey Scott,

sorry, did not see there was another question :-)
Pics were taken in the western part of Cundinamarca, a few hours by bus from Bogotá. I would tell you the exact location but I forgot the name of the Village. Probably was something in spanish :P
No blue frogs there, all of them were yellow. The first frog we found was basking alone by himself. The others we found (about five, including tadpole transporting males) were in a shady humid hut with all kinds of waste and garbage...and rats. Thats where the deposition sites were. At least the ones we found.
You could say there was a kind of density in the population there, but that`s because of the depositon sites and the readily available food. The hut was close to the pigsty....

Greetings
Andreas

[tclipse]

It's great to finally see some info on these guys... I'm really surprised nobody ever mentions them to new froggers as viable options for first frogs.

Originally Posted by valledelcauca

Hey Scott,

sorry, did not see there was another question :-)
Pics were taken in the western part of Cundinamarca, a few hours by bus from Bogotá. I would tell you the exact location but I forgot the name of the Village. Probably was something in spanish :P
No blue frogs there, all of them were yellow. The first frog we found was basking alone by himself. The others we found (about five, including tadpole transporting males) were in a shady humid hut with all kinds of waste and garbage...and rats. Thats where the deposition sites were. At least the ones we found.
You could say there was a kind of density in the population there, but that`s because of the depositon sites and the readily available food. The hut was close to the pigsty....

Greetings
Andreas

Those photos really made me miss Bogota. All I found on my trip were tadpoles, hopefully I'll have better luck this August.

Be sure to stop by the Universidad de Los Andes and have a look at Dr. Amezquita's collection if you can, it's fantastic.

[El Saptio Joyas]

Originally Posted by valledelcauca

Hey Scott,

sorry, did not see there was another question :-)
Pics were taken in the western part of Cundinamarca, a few hours by bus from Bogotá. I would tell you the exact location but I forgot the name of the Village. Probably was something in spanish :P
No blue frogs there, all of them were yellow. The first frog we found was basking alone by himself. The others we found (about five, including tadpole transporting males) were in a shady humid hut with all kinds of waste and garbage...and rats. Thats where the deposition sites were. At least the ones we found.
You could say there was a kind of density in the population there, but that`s because of the depositon sites and the readily available food. The hut was close to the pigsty....

Greetings
Andreas

Hi Andreas
Thx for sharing the info. Look forward to more pics if you get any.

Trash heaps and rats oohh my.... I guess its good for the frogs to be so adaptable with human invasion.

I bet you were in Tobia (or a place near) - were there tourist? Its where people go to escape the cold polluted air of Bogota. I have not been able to visit yet, but if that is where you found frogs I will make a point next time

I sure appreciate your observations about basking. I have a 2.2 Yellow Trunc group and I have plans to add some starfire glass to the lid for UVB transmission. I will prob only run the bulb a few hours a day.

Regards
Scott