Potential Frog Excess

WannabeVivMaster · #1 11-12-2010, 08:53 PM

This is probably a really stupid question but I'll ask any way.
I've got 5 Auratus tads about 2 months from morphing
6 eggs about to hatch
11 eggs just laid today.

What does everybody do with all the extra frogs?

The school in the little town I live in is willing to take a couple for a Biology class ( NO DISECTION!).
I don't really want to sell them to a pet store because pet stores suck.

I got them from Saurian.net. The parents are probably brother and sister.

I'm sure other keepers occasionally get over run with tads then frogs. I'm not really into it for the money. What does everybody else do with them?

Grimm · #2 11-12-2010, 09:45 PM

Most people will leave the tads inside the viv. This reduces the dart's urge to breed apparently....I think the best solution however, is to send them to me

wallymobobber · #3 11-12-2010, 10:01 PM

I agree with Grimm send them to us!!!!!

JoeG · #4 11-12-2010, 10:26 PM

There is only ONE answer here. Use this as an excuse to build more tanks, trade for a few different species and build a dart frog empire the like of which have not been seen since EVER!

Or...send them to Grimm and wallymobobber.

WannabeVivMaster · #5 11-13-2010, 01:06 AM

I have researched to the extreme!!! I bought frogs from Saurian.net. They are breeding like crazy! Of course, I would like to get the $$$$ I put into them but it is definitely not a money maker for me; not yet?!?!?. I truly believe there is no better "pet" than the dart frog. I don't have any frogs yet, just tadpoles and eggs (be sides the original sub adult juvenile frogs I bought). I'm sure there are many people with tads and eggs to sell (once they morph to frogs).
I think my goal is to bring about knowledge of these wonderful jewels of the natural world and bring their accomplishments to be better understood by people in the general population. Many people keep aquarium fish, terrestrial lizards and snakes, and many other reptiles and amphibians. The dart frog is a true gift of the natural world; excellent pet, possible medicinal value and valuable biological educational tool ( total life cycle from egg, tadpole, easy food supply (fruit fly cultivation), growth and breeding. The slice of the rain forest in a near complete ecosystem nearly closed system in a "fish tank".
I'm rambling but I have kept a few different exotic pets... none to which have captivated myself and my entire family as much as the dart frog.
If only we could all live with the realization of the simplicity of satisfaction from raising a tropical amphibian!