pumilio froglet methods

" totally get everyones points and respect tgem to the fullest....but how does a wild pum froglet grow up on his own and reprduce?

If I were to say that I have a good amount of froglets that i pulled at a month and some reached adulthood and some are currently at 6+ months, would that just be luck ?"

I don't know if its luck or not, but the consensus from most of the successful pumilio breeders seems to point to some advantages and hightened success when keeping the froglets with the parents. I don't think anyone is going to tell you to never pull froglets early, its just whatever works for you.

In a natural setting I would imagine the froglets do stay in the general vicintity of the parents or are in the vicinity of other adults until reaching an age at when they begin to breed. It is difficult to say for sure, but my epxerience certainly seems to indicate that at least some skills are learned from the parents or other adults in the wild.

"keep all my obligates in 18-24s and up. I usually will even yse a combination of hardy and easy rotting leaf litter...of course one for frog security other for springtails to feed on and that I havent had issues with. All my pums are nice and filled up. Caucheros, esperanzas and my almirantes are the ones displaying this agression. I mean, on one instance, the female was aon a brom in the cup literally pinning the froglet under water...as I saw it when she hopped away.....then she drowned a second one in the higher brom.....They seem to display very alpha likebehavior and its move out of the way during feeding or you get runed over.
Ill snap a few pics of vivs..."

I have worked with Almirante and Cauchero and haven't seen anything like this. Perhaps you have some really dominant frogs. BTW, I'll take some Esperanzas...

I think it would be almost impossible to get a definitive answer without spending a lot of time in the field studying the interactions, which I think would be very difficult. Even if that study was done, would it be conclusive, and would it translate into frogs in captive situations? Probably not...so I think that your approach will depend on several factors; the behavior of your frogs, environment, diet, population density, and observations (to name a few).

Cairo, like I said, its what works for you. If you are successfully breeding obligates and are having success with pulling froglets early then others will try it too. But if what they are doing is already working they will be less inclined to take the risk. Obviously there are other motivations to pull froglets early, aside from the safety of the frogs, namely quicker sales for breeders. To some people this won't matter, but to some who do this as a source of income this quite possibly may motivate them to try.

If you want to try to get a better picture, start a poll and ask people when they pull froglets and what their success rate is. Obvioulsy, the results will be variable (I suspect highly variable), difficult to verify, and subject to observation. In other words, the only way someone knows there is a froglet in the tank is that they see it, so at that point they guess age. Also if a froglet morphs out and dies before the owner can see it that froglet wouldn't get included into their success rate...just some thoughts, but it seems it will be difficult to get a definitive answer but I would be interested to see the results...