05-20-2009, 03:53 PM
I’m unsure if I just missing a posting that already spoke of this but with just starting out I am curious.
How can you be sure when buying a mate for your frog that you don’t end up inbreeding them with how many frogs are bought and traded? Is there some way of tracking the bloodlines so that you can make sure this doesn’t happen on accident? How likely is it for this to happen when buying a pair of frogs that you get related frogs from different sources? How much would this matter? I understand that in the wild there is the chance inbreeding can happen in animals though in a terrarium there isn’t much of a choice unless it’s a large community terrarium.
How can you be sure when buying a mate for your frog that you don’t end up inbreeding them with how many frogs are bought and traded? Is there some way of tracking the bloodlines so that you can make sure this doesn’t happen on accident? How likely is it for this to happen when buying a pair of frogs that you get related frogs from different sources? How much would this matter? I understand that in the wild there is the chance inbreeding can happen in animals though in a terrarium there isn’t much of a choice unless it’s a large community terrarium.