Tiny Jewel/Ranitomeya amazonica

[Lars K]

This is my female Ranitomeya amazonica (former Dendrobates amazonicus).
They are distributed in Peru and have an adult size of under 2 cm.
She's captive-bred and 3,5 years old.
This species is very shy and I was very lucky to take some shots of her.
They live in and near bromeliads and hide themselves in the "funnels" of the bromeliads.

 

[Chrisreptile]

wow, thats a very colourful frog there lars.
youve got a great collection

 

[lector]

WOW shes a stunner
Would love to see pics of her set up as well if u have them
cheers for the pics

 

[Kaotic]

ooooh how beautiful!

 

[Lars K]

Thanks for the nice comments!!!

WOW shes a stunner
Would love to see pics of her set up as well if u have them
cheers for the pics

Sorry, I don't have a pic of the setup at the moment.

 

[Whisper2]

my gosh!
look at those colours, great choice imo. not that she really choose them....
love your collection larsk!

 

[caustichumor]

Great looking animal, I have a soft spot for frogs, such an amazing life-cycle, great photo's by the way....

 

[firedragon]

She's absolutely beautiful

 

[Lars K]

Thank you all for the nice comments!!!

 

[thesilverbeast]

my reactio nin my head was "oh dear god!"


thats an AWESOME looking frog!



do they have venom/poison?

 

[nickamon]

That's a beautiful little frog! I love the last pic, it looks like the frog is thinking, "yeah, what do you want?"

 

[Hetty]

Beautiful colours. She looks like she's posing

 

[Vala]

wow, she's amazingly beautiful! Lucky you!

 

[bump73]

Amazing Lars.

Do you breed them??

Ben

 

[mummydolittle]

Wow.

What an amazing frog, with the most beautiful colours.

 

[Lars K]

Thank you all very much for the nice comments!!!

do they have venom/poison?

Yes silverbeast, they are poisonous in the wilderness, but the captive-bred ones don't have a poison!

Do you breed them??

No Ben, unfortunately my male died for about a year ago.

 

[bump73]

Sorry to hear that Lars...

What are the chances of finding another male in germany???

Ben

 

[Joshua VW]

I've said this once and I'll say it again, you Germans are so lucky.
That is one AWESOME Frog!

Do you have any more Frogs besides that Monkey Frog? Can you please post pictures of any others you have?
You have such an amazing collection.

 

[Sidonia]

You are SO lucky.

 

[Lars K]

Sorry to hear that Lars...

What are the chances of finding another male in germany???

Ben

Thanks Ben, well it's not so easy to find a single male and you mostly get unsexed juveniles.

Though they are so tiny they are very territorial and you can only keep one male with one
or sometimes two females. (especially the males are fighting and suppress the opponent)

Therefore I don't wanna buy several unsexed juveniles.