Yay! Look what I got this weekend!

[tindalos]

I am now the proud owner of a group of four Pipa carvalhoi. They are sub-adults at 4-5cm, and I think that I got at least two males (heard them singing just hours after I released them into their temporary tank (I'm cycling the larger tank intended for them)). And probably at least one female, she's got a thick dark patch of skin covering the lower half of her back, it looks almost as if she is carrying eggs.

I have been given the opportunity to obtain yet another, larger female from another source and I will add her to the group within the coming weeks.

Here's some photos... (sorry for the dust on the glass, and the overall crappy quality)

Cheers

 

[jclee]

They're cuties! Congrats!

 

[Eugenia]

Congratulations!!

I got 4 P.carvalhoi from Sweden last December to Russia - and they are doing quite fine. The only one female lays eggs about once a month but still I never saw any tadpoles.
I hope for the best.

 

[tindalos]

Thanks for the answers.

Eugenia - Thankyou, amusing to hear that Sweden is exporting frogs to Russia. Their origin is probably from the same stock as mine.

What happens to the eggs then, does she just shed them? Have you tried removing all the other frogs from the tank and leaving the female by herself?

I saw a drawing somewhere (maybe it was here on Caudata) of someone using an old-school breeding cage for livebearing fish (a "V"-shaped construction with a thin slit at the bottom where the tadpoles fall through and swim out to safety).

They are most definitely cannibals as seen in this video of P.parva:

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Cheers

 

[RainFrog]

Those frogs are very cool. Do they engage in egg care like parva do?