I woke this morning to an unfamiliar call in the tricolor tank, one of the recently purchased frogs has started belting out his song and has already been noticed by one of the females. The larger male we have seemed a little put off by this new competition and stepped up his game by calling longer and louder than he ever has... I guess a bit of healthy competition cant hurt. With two nice large females and another 3 froglets growing up in there from 2 different bloodlines hopefully I'll be overrun in no time.
one of the froglets compared to a penny.
These tiny frogs can lay around 30 eggs at a time without any problem and do this pretty much every fortnight. They prefer to lay in film canisters that I position at various heights throughout the viv. This however is not fool proof as last week they laid a batch on the exposed leaf of a bromeliad. Although tadpoles can be seen developing I don't think these will make it, the white yolk sac normally bursts killing the tad when they look like this.
The phantasmal dart frogs covers two species that originate from the El Oro, Azuay, and Loja provinces of south west Ecuador and the Piura, and Tumbes departments of north west Peru.
E. tricolor like these are found in central Ecuador, on the western slopes of the Andes (El Porvenir, Bolivar Province).
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