August 2004. This was a time, believe it or not, when species such as Ranitomeya uakarii or Ranitomeya flavovitatta were poorly known, enigmatic species represented by only a few accounts and a sparse selection of photos online. This was the time before Taron Grant dropped his taxonomical bombshell on Dendrobatid taxonomy. These were the dark ages before the works of Brown and Twomey began elucidating the mess of what was at the time known as the “Quinquevitattus” group of small Peruvian poison frogs. Still these were exciting times! I was unbelievably excited to return to Peru in August of that Read More…

We had intended this newsletter to go out in January, but somehow January got away from us! So this has new become the February edition. Inside the buildings the frogs have been breeding extremely well! One of the major changes we have been working on the past 12 to 18 months was the expansion of our tinctorius groups so that we could have a more robust and consistent availability of many of these morphs for both retail and wholesale customers across the world. We currently have many tinctorius tadpoles of many morphs in the water and coming on land. In Read More…