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Young darts, including tincs, change froglet/juvi colors and patterns sometimes as they age.
No castration needed here.
Darts with parasites are analogous to mixed tanks, there are no known benefits to the frogs with either.
If tone is more important to you than content, you are at the wrong place.
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Hold it back
Call it a 'pastel'
Seek out other similar looking 'oddballs' and line breed them all
I KID, I KID....don't do anything close to all that.
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Philsuma Wrote:Hold it back
Call it a 'pastel'
Seek out other similar looking 'oddballs' and line breed them all
I KID, I KID....don't do anything close to all that.
Good thing you added that "I KID", becasue that's essentially exactly what a big name did. And still what other seek out.
Darts with parasites are analogous to mixed tanks, there are no known benefits to the frogs with either.
If tone is more important to you than content, you are at the wrong place.
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Nice pics there.
Up until now my froglets have all been similar to what your showing there.
But when I first saw these I had to do a double take and thought someone had changed my tads.
Phil it has been suggested to me from several people to hold on to these froglets and see what transpires.
Being that whatever they look like they are definitely Azureus what are the chances of them giving me "normal" looking youngsters or do you think they`ll give me more of the same ?
I`m not interested in line breeding in case you wondered, but if they keep anything remotely close to those colours they would make for an attractive adult frog and it would be hard to resist wanting to breed with them, even with a normal looking adult.
I imagine this would then strengthen the chances of these colours reappearing, aka line breeding.
With having posted these photo`s here and elsewhere and having showed them off to people at a frog show everyone knows they are Azureus, so I can`t be accused of breeding hybrids.
But there are the questions going around in my head about what happens if I bred these frogs and started getting none standard looking Azureus.
Or lets change the above sentence a bit.
I sell these frogs on and someone else breeds with them and suddenly appear at a show/meet trying to sell strange looking Azureus.
If these frogs were in the wild they would breed with each other, so what about in the viv ?
Mike
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Be sure to get back to us in about 4 months.
Darts with parasites are analogous to mixed tanks, there are no known benefits to the frogs with either.
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Hi Rich
Now I`m signed up I`ll no doubt be around for a bit lol.
I`ll certainly keep you posted.
Truth be told I`m half expecting them to change to something a bit closer to what you`d expect an Azureus to look like.
Time will definitely answer some of the questions and even if I`m selling them on I`ll probably have them for the next 5 months anyway.
Mike