Yes, it still has a pattern you can see faintly. Very cool!Pretty cool. There are actually a few of these melanistic tarapotos floating around. The line that Patrick Nabors works with produces them from time to time. Check out Patrick's site, he has a picture or two on there. What is cool about these guys, is that in a lot of lighting conditions they appear to be a black frog, but brighter light reveals a faint pattern. Kind of like black jaguars.
So its not that specialits 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
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Me Too!!!I like thing that are different so I like your froglet
Newt1