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Written by Richard
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Sunday, 16 March 2008 11:02 |
 This species, the Golden Mantella (Mantella aurantiaca) is the first species I bred. Like all other mantellas it is endemic to Madagascar. I bought 3.2 adults from The Vivarium (Walthamstow) on 24th April 1998. By November they had spawned once for me, but none of the clutch was fertilised. By the end of the following season (´99) I had learnt enough to have four froglets! I was mightily pleased! In 2000 I was so successful that I gave 40 tadpoles away at one point (my collaborators in that venture managed to successfully raise 24 froglets from that lot). In 2001 I had over 800 tadpoles - that season I had also bought another 1.1 adults (from ukherps.com). The female of that pair laid one clutch with an excess of 120 eggs!!! Unfortunately, I was not able to give any tadpoles away that year, so had to try to raise them all myself, with disastrous consequences - none of them survived! I was devastated. Since then I have made sure that I have members in the studbook programme to whom I can distribute the tadpoles and froglets, and if you’re interested in joining please do contact me!
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Last Updated on Sunday, 23 March 2008 20:46 |
