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Hey all,
I was looking for a translation of what my pumilio have been up to the past couple days, or at least would like to compare with what other people have observed. They had been fairly subdued since I bought them about a couple weeks ago; the male called frequently in the morning and at night, but the female seemed to pay absolutely no attention to him, and never left the top third of the tank. However, yesterday when I came into the room in the early afternoon the male was incessantly calling, and seemed to be leading the female around. She still didn't seem to pay too much attention, and was often diverted by nearby fruit flies, but sort of zig-zagginly followed him around his favorite bromeliad. Unfortunately, I had to move the tank home as it is spring break for me, but the frogs almost immediately resumed upon being placed in their new location. They kept this sort of thing up for the rest of the evening, even a while after their light went out. The only potentially fruitful thing that came out of this was that once the female all of a sudden plunked herself down into an axil of the bromeliad the male had been trying to get her interested in. Is this significant at all, or pure coincidence? Is this indicative of any accomplishment?
Anyway, this afternoon when I got up they were doing the exact same thing, which they continued for an hour or two until they abruptly stopped. The male spent the rest of the day back in a bromeliad tank (not the one that I think of as his territory) and the female went back up to her corner at the top of the tank. They spent the rest of the day in these locations, hardly moving. Is THIS indicative of anything? Did they breed while I wasn't watching, or are they just resting? Additionally, today was quite different weather-wise - any chance that a dramatic change in barometric pressure would send them to ground for a while?
Sorry for the long post
! I would love to hear what others have observed along these lines. It seems to me that the best way we can learn more about these guys is by comparing and pooling results and gathering as much data as we can on their behavior, to see what trends become apparent. Anyway, I look forward to any replies .
-Niels
I was looking for a translation of what my pumilio have been up to the past couple days, or at least would like to compare with what other people have observed. They had been fairly subdued since I bought them about a couple weeks ago; the male called frequently in the morning and at night, but the female seemed to pay absolutely no attention to him, and never left the top third of the tank. However, yesterday when I came into the room in the early afternoon the male was incessantly calling, and seemed to be leading the female around. She still didn't seem to pay too much attention, and was often diverted by nearby fruit flies, but sort of zig-zagginly followed him around his favorite bromeliad. Unfortunately, I had to move the tank home as it is spring break for me, but the frogs almost immediately resumed upon being placed in their new location. They kept this sort of thing up for the rest of the evening, even a while after their light went out. The only potentially fruitful thing that came out of this was that once the female all of a sudden plunked herself down into an axil of the bromeliad the male had been trying to get her interested in. Is this significant at all, or pure coincidence? Is this indicative of any accomplishment?
Anyway, this afternoon when I got up they were doing the exact same thing, which they continued for an hour or two until they abruptly stopped. The male spent the rest of the day back in a bromeliad tank (not the one that I think of as his territory) and the female went back up to her corner at the top of the tank. They spent the rest of the day in these locations, hardly moving. Is THIS indicative of anything? Did they breed while I wasn't watching, or are they just resting? Additionally, today was quite different weather-wise - any chance that a dramatic change in barometric pressure would send them to ground for a while?
Sorry for the long post
! I would love to hear what others have observed along these lines. It seems to me that the best way we can learn more about these guys is by comparing and pooling results and gathering as much data as we can on their behavior, to see what trends become apparent. Anyway, I look forward to any replies . -Niels
