01-22-2010, 05:35 PM
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I've been reading a few pumilio threads and it seems there are a few misunderstandings about them. I'll share a bit of info here.
It is not usually hard to get pumilio to breed. If you have a male and a female, they will most likely , eventually breed.
It is at times difficult to get froglets to adult age. This due to the fact the froglets are tiny and need small food stuffs, lots of it. There are also other factors including male on male fighting when reaching sub-adult range and the need to establish territories.
Males do not transport tads, females do.
Males are not needed to let females know where the females laid their own eggs...
Males are not needed at all to call the female over to feed the tads. Males are actually not needed in the tank after the eggs have been fertilized. At all.
Females in a group environment (i.e. 1:2, 1:3, 1:4 ,ect.) will feed each other's tads.
Females of one morph will feed tads from another morph. Also known as surrogate parenting.
Pumilio will eat and love springtails, and continue to due so when at adult age. Pumilio love springtails, period.
Most male pumilio do not 'like' their mates, and vise versa. Once breeding is done the male goes one way, the female/s another.
Females will lay without the presence of males.
Females will lay in tiny, tiny containers. This does not mean tiny vivs are the way to go. Quite the opposite.
Pumilio, more than most darts , continue to grow far after reaching physical maturity and breeding age.
If you are tank raising pumilio (leaving them in-viv instead of pulling them) it is wise to remove them once they are about half grown . If you have a male sub-adult (smaller than the adult breeding male in-viv) and the alpha males knows it is a male, there is a chance of the alpha beating the younger/smaller male to death.
It is absolutely impossible to tell the morph of a pumilio from pictures alone. Impossible. The possible, possible exception may be escudos, but those are not a real pum either...
That's it for now. I'm sure I'll think of other stuff later.
Rich
I've been reading a few pumilio threads and it seems there are a few misunderstandings about them. I'll share a bit of info here.
It is not usually hard to get pumilio to breed. If you have a male and a female, they will most likely , eventually breed.
It is at times difficult to get froglets to adult age. This due to the fact the froglets are tiny and need small food stuffs, lots of it. There are also other factors including male on male fighting when reaching sub-adult range and the need to establish territories.
Males do not transport tads, females do.
Males are not needed to let females know where the females laid their own eggs...
Males are not needed at all to call the female over to feed the tads. Males are actually not needed in the tank after the eggs have been fertilized. At all.
Females in a group environment (i.e. 1:2, 1:3, 1:4 ,ect.) will feed each other's tads.
Females of one morph will feed tads from another morph. Also known as surrogate parenting.
Pumilio will eat and love springtails, and continue to due so when at adult age. Pumilio love springtails, period.
Most male pumilio do not 'like' their mates, and vise versa. Once breeding is done the male goes one way, the female/s another.
Females will lay without the presence of males.
Females will lay in tiny, tiny containers. This does not mean tiny vivs are the way to go. Quite the opposite.
Pumilio, more than most darts , continue to grow far after reaching physical maturity and breeding age.
If you are tank raising pumilio (leaving them in-viv instead of pulling them) it is wise to remove them once they are about half grown . If you have a male sub-adult (smaller than the adult breeding male in-viv) and the alpha males knows it is a male, there is a chance of the alpha beating the younger/smaller male to death.
It is absolutely impossible to tell the morph of a pumilio from pictures alone. Impossible. The possible, possible exception may be escudos, but those are not a real pum either...
That's it for now. I'm sure I'll think of other stuff later.
Rich