🧵 reactivating a dart frog
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 19:15:51 UTC No. 16497424
so a dartfrog gains it posison from the diet it eats, this means that in captivity they lose their poison or they are born whitout it as they are usually fed fruit flies. So in theory one could "activate" the frog by feeding it its natural diet? do you guys know if this has been done before? also its probably really retarded to do this as i recon it would go like this.
>open vivarium to clena/feed
>touch something that the terribilis dart frog has touched
>fucking die
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 19:23:29 UTC No. 16497432
>>16497424
what does dartfrog eat for being poison? what store do you visit to purchased said poison making dartfrog plant?
eat plant.
what happen?
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 21:53:57 UTC No. 16497597
>>16497424
>touch something that the terribilis dart frog has touched
>fucking die
not how it works. you'd need to be pretty retarded to kill yourself with an active frog. like rubbing their secretion into an open wound, licking the frog, licking your hands after handling the frog or poking yourself with your own poison frog darts.
afaik, no one knows what they eat to become active (ants is a guess) and no one has succeeded doing it in captivity.
>>16497432
you think frogs eat plants? lmao
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 22:01:45 UTC No. 16497600
>>16497424
This really activates my dartfrogs.
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 23:23:22 UTC No. 16497677
>>16497597
Not plantarians, huh? Is it snail or clam?
Toxic algae in clam blood, yes?
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 23:24:35 UTC No. 16497679
>>16497597
>you think frogs eat plants? lmao
The frogs get their poison from bugs that get their poison from plants
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 23:43:37 UTC No. 16497692
>>16497597
>no one knows what they eat to become active
its the nasty little bugs they eat and they sweat out toxins like a tweeker on perpetual comedown.
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:36:18 UTC No. 16497739
>>16497597
>he doesn't lick his frogs
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Nov 2024 01:15:45 UTC No. 16497759
>>16497424
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/center-s
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Nov 2024 11:31:10 UTC No. 16498152
>>16497597
But what if i hypoteticly where to pay someone that lives in their natural range to collect the bugs they usually eat and sens them to me? Also could you just check the local areas insect and plant life and from there see wich ones would be able to produce Batrachotoxin(C31H42N2O6). Like reverse engineering the food pyramid?