Bumblebee Toad

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

Dana
 
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..
 
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
 
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