Bumblebee Toad

[vistajpdf]

Hi there,

I'm frequently on the Newt board, but not here. My sons and I have a wide variety of inhabitants in our home and my oldest son has a pair of bumblebee toads that he's interested in breeding, assuming his identifying one as a female and one as a male is correct....Anyway, from what we've read, it's quite a process! Chilling the female, simulating the rainy season, then possibly breeding? Has anyone done this successfully?

Thanks,
Dana

 

[Niels D]

I've still got juvies (Melanophryniscus klappenbachi), but you really should check dendorboard.com or frogforum.net. There are a couple of people who did the job over there. I know one guy who bred them here in the Netherlands and I believe he chilled the males as well.

 

[vistajpdf]

Thanks, I found those boards after posting here and saw that one case about the successful breeding. It just seems so complicated!

Dana

 

[Niels D]

Complicated indeed, but imagine how glad you'll be if you would succeed!

 

[Tappers]

As a tortoise keeper, I have a fridge that houses a few species over the winter - I read the same breeding report (I keep dartfrogs as well) and thought that it sounded like a fairly familliar case of popping them in the fridge for a couple of weeks then into a rain chamber.

Easier than driving a car or using a washing machine I reckon - hopefully the toads themselves will do the tricky bit! Keep us posted..

 

[vistajpdf]

Thanks, I will. I didn't realize how popular the rain chambers were. I think the successful breeder of BBTs used his own shower with the drain plugged up and the whole dechlorinating process of that set-up concerned me.

Dana