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Originally Posted by Philsuma
Sounds like you have all you need or want with Mark.
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Mark has about the same as myself, suspicions. When he sees SLS in the offspring from a pair, he separates them to give the female a break. After some time, he puts them back together and the pair re-assumes putting out healthy offspring.
This would somewhat replicate their natural cycle where they would have a flurry of breeding activity followed by a period of no breeding activity in the dry season letting the female rebuild the vitamin and mineral deposits in her body that she spent on her eggs.
Supplementing the water they spend their days in could slow the rate at which the female loses her own deposits, lengthen the time she could put out healthy offspring and reduce the downtime it would take for her to replace those she lost through breeding.
I'd still like to see the source where you said that this has been established, because I have not see it said by anyone other then you. Would love to see the evidence. It could save me time and money!
This obviously touches on another subject not discussed much, replicating the seasons in the Viv and the direct impacts of that on the long term health and reproduction rates of the frogs in captivity. How much misting is being done by many people vs how much should be done, but I will save that for another time.