Current Availability and Projects

Winter‘08

In this space I try to offer a fairly updated discussion of the captive bred offsping that are available at this time, as well as any new information about dry goods, shipping, and projects which are coming to fruition! This text area is a general overview, followed by the more frequently updated table below that shows each species or form that we have in “production” right now, as well as their prices.

Please note that we have several other areas on the website for you to find information about the frogs, such as the species list, where you can find some pictures of the frogs, as well as general information about each frog, the “ Placing an Order” page, which covers terms and conditions, as well as information about how we ship our frogs and lizards. Of course we also have a large selection of caresheets which cover many topics related to dart frogs. Please try to find the answers to your questions in these locations before contacting me!

The dart frogs we offer are generally juveniles, as opposed to the froglets some vendors may be offering. This means the (for example) D. azureus that you order from us will be a three or four month old frog, about one inch long. Many beginners have trouble getting baby frogs to thrive for them, and larger well established frogs are much easier to deal with. For the most part, the frogs sold here are at or over one inch in size when sold. This one inch standard of course applies to frogs other than D. pumilio and thumbnail frogs, but the same theory applies to these frogs as well, they will be well started before we send them out to you. The larger and more well established your frogs are when you get them, the greater your chance of success with them is, and this is well worth checking when you are considering where to get your frogs, and well worth considering when comparing prices.

Shipping

This time of year shipping is difficult. We may only get a day or two each month during January and February with weather appropriate for shipping. If you are interested in getting a shipment of frogs, then its best to place the order and get on the shipping list. We will watch your weather and ours, and ship when conditions permit. Of course we will let you know prior to shipment. During the winter months shipments generally require heavier packaging, and this means larger boxes, running shipping costs up to $45 to $60 per shipment. See the “Placing an Order” page for more on our shipping policies.

Terrariums

We are busy at work on a new line of zoo quality dart frog terrariums, we have some photos of these posted on the “Terrariums” page. These terrariums are perhaps the only line of ready made, but customizable, high end dart frog tanks available in the US.

For more modest size tanks and budgets, we recently introduced a line of terrarium kits for medium size terrariums. The kits feature a cast background with the look of real rock. There are two background choices, one has a water fall and the other features a Mayan Ruin theme, and has trickling water across the background. Both come with everything you need to set up a tank, including mounting supplies, and all plumbing and pumps . The kit is made especially for Exo Terra and Zoo Med tanks, but can go in any tank large enough to hold it.

Dart Frogs

This time of year our dart frog selection is usually at its lowest point, and this year is no exception. The winter and spring breeding season usually results in a good selection of frogs during the summer and fall, but by this time of year we are generally pretty low on frogs. None the less, we do still have quite a few frogs on hand here.

D. auratus-

Right now we are very short on Costa Rican green and blacks, there are a few on hand here now but they are all too small to ship. There is a pretty good supply of Panamanian green and bronzes, and the Panamanian Green and Blacks. Blue and bronze auratus are getting up to shipping size, but its been slow, the first offspring out of our pairs have been somewhat small. I have a few people waiting on these, so if you are interested let me know and I can get you on the list for this frog. Blue auratus are also in short supply but the availability will be better this spring.

There are also a few Ancon Hills available right now, these are nice little frogs!

D. galactonotus

We have been shipping orders of orange and red galactonotus to customers who were on the waiting lists for these frogs. We have had a pretty good breeding season with the red galacs in particular, in fact they are still breeding, and we are slowly working through the long waiting list for this frog. The orange galactonotus list is pretty well cleared up, and we have a few of these on hand now, some ready to ship, and others that will be soon.

Phyllobates

Currently the only Phyllobates species breeding is the vittatus. Our bicolor did not breed this year, and after a nice breeding run, our best producing female mint terribilis died. We hope to get the terribilis especially going this year. Vittatus should begin to be available again in May or so.

D. leucomelas

We had a good breeding season with D. leucomelas, but most are gone now, only a few remain. If you are interested we can work towards getting you some, but most of what is on hand right now are too small to ship. These are one of the best all around terrarium frogs, colorful, bold, loud call….what more could you want?!

Tinctorius and Azureus

Right now we have quite a few D. tinctorius forms available. We have plenty of very nice Patricia, Surinam Cobalts, some Powder blues, Tafelberg or Alanis, and some very nice green Sipaliwinis.

About now we will begin to have some sexed pairs of tinctorius such as the Patricia and Surinam Cobalts, let me know if you are interested in any of these…..

Of course as always we have plenty of D. azureus juveniles, and we continue to offer sexed pairs of D. azureus, with a diverse array of bloodlines to offer. We have kept detailed records of the origin of almost all our breeder D. azureus, many of which are approaching ten years old, and include some F1 animals, and will share that information with you on request, when you receive your sexed pair. These sexed pairs we currently have available are young adults, 12 months old or so, and while it is reasonable to expect that they will take a few months to begin breeding, many of my customers have been happy to find it took only a couple of months, or even less in some cases. The pairs are $250.

Thumbnail frogs

We have a nice stream of imitators coming out of the water, but they are being sold as fast as they get up to shipping size, so if you want some, you should let me know as far in advance as possible. Our vent group frogs are breeding right now, and we have a fairly good number of red amazonicus and golden amazonicus in the water, and most months a few juveniles are ready to go of each, so drop me a note if you are interested in some.

Pumilio

We currently have several of the Bastimentos form pumilio ready to go, including white, yellow and red/oranges.

Other Frogs

We are working with a few non dart frog frogs, here is a summary of the offerings in that department.

First, the Vietnamese mossy frogs, Theloderma corticale…..we have tadpoles and froglets just coming out of the water, however we have had some problems with the froglets over the past few months, and have built up a nice wait list. We seem to have this worked out, and are shipping frogs to customers on our wait list, but the list is pretty long.

Second, the Solomon Isle Leaf frogs, Ceratobatrachus guentheri, yellow phase. I wrote an article on these frogs for the October issue of Reptiles Magazine, and this resulted in our selling out of all available frogs, as well as building up a small wait list. While they breed year round, this time of year is the slowest season for them, and we really wont have a lot to offer until this summer.

Wanted

This is a new feature, please look this over if you have surplus frogs available. We are looking for the following types of frogs. We will pay cash, or trade for other frogs or terrarium supplies.

In addition to the frogs listed below, we are interested in purchasing or trading for any frogs we do not have on our “Currently Available” listing.

Juvenile D. auratus Blue
Phyllobates aurotaenia
Phyllobates terribilis Mint females or pairs, or juveniles

D. tinctorius Citronella males or pairs
E. tricolor Santa Isabella pairs or proven groups
E. tricolor Highland form pairs or proven groups
D. leucomelas juveniles or adults

Dart Frog Availability at a glance, Januaryr 30th, 2008

The purpose of this table is to allow you to see what frogs are available now, and what might be available in the near future. Note that the froglets too small to ship and the tadpoles are listed for informational purposes, we do not sell tadpoles or baby frogs.

Frogs listed as ready to go are well established juveniles, in most cases one inch in length and three to five months old. The one inch standard applies to the tinctorius, auratus and other larger dart frogs in particular, obviously many of the other frogs are too small as adults for this to apply.

Please consider the size and age of the frogs in price shopping, the larger and older juveniles we offer will have a considerably higher success rate than froglets!