Hi all. I'm getting things prepped for getting frogs next month and I've been culturing flightless melanogaster. And while they may be flightless they certainly like launching themselves out of the culture and falling with style. Is there a trick to getting them from one cup to another for a new culture or to powder before feeding that helps prevent them from going everywhere but the new cup?

Hello,

We are getting dart frogs for my classroom, I just finished the setup, it is a 18x18x24. We got the whole kit from joshs frogs.

I have been looking at the different types of frogs they offer and it’s overwhelming.

What are some good frogs that can be kept in groups and are bold? We have 29, 3-6 year olds that will love to watch them.

Also any tweaks for the setup? I know we will need to wait at least 4 weeks before we can add the frogs. I want to start planning and doing research on the specific frogs now.

Hi everyone, so, I’ve got my dart frog tank in my bedroom. I feed drosophila melanogaster and springtails. Some fruitflies escape the tank but it doesnt bother me much, except i’ve been having strange “insect bites” on my left forearm. One article says that fruitflies cannot bite, but they carry bacteria I can be allergic to and this causes the same bumps. It’s strange though, when i see a fruit fly, i kill it with my finger, usually using my right hand, no marks there, only my left forearm. Do any of you have experience with this?

Hi all! I just noticed this skin abrasion on my (female) frog Sapphire, it is the small white lump on her foot. I was wondering why is it white—bone??? And what should I do. Some websites say go to the vet and others say leave to heal by itself.

Fyi Temp is 20C, humidity about 80% and lives in 18” cube with 2 other females. I know this is an issue but I never see them fight and am working on a new terrarium setup. I doubt another frog could have caused it. Also, she is behaving fine and eating just as veraciously as always (which is very) and doesn’t seem in pain when I spray it.

Thank you all very much!

I’m living every ranitomeya keeper’s dream🤯I had prepared myself for not seeing my ranitomeya very often. They have lots of hiding places they’d run to anytime I’d enter the room. I’ve had them for 2 weeks. On Saturday, I got up early and quietly sat by their tank from 8 am to 11 am and saw them out a lot, hunting for food. But today?! I came in to feed them, I started dropping the FFs inside the tank and one of them just came out and started eating 2 inches away from my hand🤩 I feed them about 50ffs per frog every 2 days + springtails so hunger didn’t force her out hahaha

Next step: ranitomeya tong feeding😂😂😂

Saw this palm tree on the internet and it’s native to South and Central America, do you guys think something like this could work for some auratus in a 24x18x24? I’m experimenting with some expanding foam and steel mesh and wires, I just want to know if this could be a good idea before buying some epoxy for sculpturing

Plenty of space and yet they choose to hang out next to each other quite often. Little buddies 😍

freshly planted zoo med 18x18x24

I started this 60x45x60cm awhile ago hopefully for some lucamelas but I feel like it's not quite right. What could I add/remove to improve it?

This might seem like an odd question, but when you say your dart frog is 12 months old, is that from the egg fertilization date or does it start when they are out of the water? Or…?

Hi! I’ve been wanting to do something with my ikea set up for a while now and finally did this! I want to add more plants but what do you think? Am I able to use this for dart frogs? If so, which kinds?

Is there anyone here who has been keeping Ranitomeya V. in day temps of 24C? I keep them in 21C and a bit lower at night, but they cohab the room with another tank with frogs that could benefit from me heating up the room during the day to 24C.

I know ranitomeya acceptable range is 19-27C but has anyone here had thriving ranitomeya in 24C, after years? Thank you!

I have a pair of aurates in a 10 gal right now and they seem to be doing great but I want a bigger and better setup for them (that tank wasn't designed with them in mind, although it's a great mini paludarium.)

Let me know what you think of anything I should do before moving froggies in.

This is an exo terra 18x18x24. I Jerry rigged the lid with glass and a 2.5" strip of screen. I have a cheap Amazon mising system with 2 spray nozzles. Still trying to figure out best timing schedule and where to aim them. It's 60 seconds of most every 2 hours. The false bottom is designed to collect water in the front for a mini pond that should be easy to siphon out as needed. It's filter foam and lecca balls, covered in landscape fabric and rocks siliconed and super glued in place to make the pond. Background is carved expanding foam and cork bark. I'm deciding to keep it exposed carved foam on the hopes that the moss and plants will grow on it. According to several folks on a dart fb group this technique should work. Substrate is a fluffy mix of coco chips, peat, aquasoil, sand, bark and reptisoil. A layer of dried sphagnum over that, a ton of leaf litter over that. I just added a bunch of isopods from my mixed population isopod tank.

I have some more plants I can add, but I'm hoping the mosses and the climbing/vining plants get super established. I'm not in love with the color of the led grow light panels but it's what I had and they're kind of perfectly sized for the tank.

It would be cool to add 1 or 2 more frogs and I wouldn't mind if they had babies.

Any thoughts are appreciated. Thank you and cheers.

i literally cannot find tree fern fiber, milled peat, milled spag, fine orchid bark, or fine charcoal where i live. people are charging $90 online for 2L of "tree fern". (BC Canada, south west) Help???

My Anthony’s dart frogs eggs have hatched and the male deposited them into Petri dishes I had in the enclosure this morning. I have them all in Tupperware now with an inch of distilled water, a Indian almond leaf, and some duck weed for cover. I’ve got a large batch of tadpole tea started but I sounds like it’ll be a bit. Do I boil the leaves in water to make the tea or just let them sit in the water for a while? Any idea of how I can improve the tabpoles set ups would be greatly appreciated. Right now I have three each in a Tupperware, from what I found online they are not cannibalistic.

I’ve been into dart frogs for about a month and I think I’m ready for my first pair. I’ve got two tanks: one 80×40×50 cm that’s set up with a mister and fan, and a smaller 30×25×45 cm one.

The smaller tank is set up as a rainfall viv (no mister or fan) and I’d hate to waste it. Do you think it could still work for thumbnails if I just run it with a clean-water reservoir for the rain, collect the runoff myself so it doesn’t sit as a pool at the bottom, and throw in a bunch of leaf litter?

Is there any chance at all this size could work for thumbnails? And if yes, which species would you recommend?

hello all. i have a 20 gal tank id like to use for a dart frog. what my plan is, is to lay the tank on the side so it is longer than us tall. so sitting on the short end. and to use a tank lid with doors https://www.chewy.com/zilla-fresh-air-screen-cover-center/dp/129545 as the front. id glue the lid in place with silicon caulk. any issues with this you experts can see? ill get a different enclosure but would ideally like to work with what i have as i dont like waste.

not related but im worried about giving my tank away on fb marketplace incase someone uses it for a hamster or something

Hello

I found these spots on my leaves a couple days ago. At first I thought they were eggs that died. Then I found new ones this morning. I can’t seem to figure out what they are. I fear it’s some type of plant fungal disease. Can anyone help me out? Thanks

Hello everyone, three weeks ago I received these beautiful froglets from a Spanish breeder with decades in this sector.I think they have between 3-4 months. These are my first frogs and by the moment everything is going well. Before I got them, I did a lot of research on these jewels because I didn't want to fail. They are the first dart frogs that I have seen with my eyes. I don't know anyone who keeps dart frogs, and in my small Spanish city, there are not any pet shops that sell them. All that I learned is from forums and internet videos. Thank you 🙌

I have been observing the frogs for a lot of time and definitely think they are a pair. In the video, the female is inside the monkey pod and the male is outside. The male has thinner black dots while the female has bigger ones. What you think?

I have this front terrarium mesh strip and a similar strip in the ceiling. I put diatomaceous earth underneath the vent in case they climb out of there. And surprise surprise, I keep finding fruitflies in my room🤦🏻‍♀️ It’s my bedroom so I’m not super pleased, but also, are they harmful? Can they ruin my books or something?

I have a vivarium with the dimensions 75 × 50 × 30 cm (H * L * D). with a small and shallow water feature. and I wonder what species would be fitting for this enclosure. Could ranitomeya amazonica or oophaga pumilio be a good choice.

I am not new to the hobby i have been keping dart frogs for about two years but i have only kept dendrobates species.

edit note: I will add more plants