r/DartFrog

just got this guy the other day i’m wondering what’s the gender?

New pets!!

Dose this look like a good setup for frogs

30 days plumping up this guy I asked you all for help with. For context I was given a tank and told that the three frogs were about 7 months old. Two were very healthy a third frog was a third of the size of the others and super malnutrition (first image). For the last month it’s been in a small ten gallon grow out style set up with spring tails and fully loaded with fruit flies. I add some banana every few days so that the fruit fly larva is available as well. After 30 days definitely seeing noticeable improvement.
Please note that the tank is a temporary one. There is leaf litter and hides galore. Just a temporary grow out. Once he’s nice and plump he will have an 18x 18 mansion probably all to himself.

Still got a ways to go but today was the first time the difference was noticeable.

Today’s maintenance will include:
- adding half a gallon of leaf litter
- adding some more spring tails
- cleaning out the banana holders and adding new banana
- adding a new background paper to the backs and sides.

Fingers crossed he(or she) keeps it up.
I do wonder if they will be permanently stunted from it all.

These two plus a female have been together for 5+ years.

They sometimes even pin each other to the ground for a couple seconds just to show who’s the dominant one. The more yellow one

Someone mentioned a few weeks back that Galacs love to soak their butts in water. That’s very true.

These guys line up for a soak in a half coconut shelf that always have some water during their “wet season”.

Never seen them doing the pinning in the water and they’re my only only darts that I intentionally supply water source to

My Santa Isabels are doing well.

This has been such a learning experience. Started off wanting a large water area with a shrimp population but decided that as I wanted to keep dart frogs that the pond idea wasn’t going to work. Filled in the pond and made it into a very shallow stream. Dart frogs are now in a quarantine tank waiting to be moved in within the next week or 2. Know I need to add more leaf litter (already have it just waiting a little longer to add it in just before the frogs go in. Currently has a springtail and isopod population that’s doing very well and have a small colony of orange springtails that will be going in, in the next day or two. Is there anything else I’m missing?

I have recently bought and built a habistat 60cm x 45cm x 60cm tank and have got the following items a heat matt, thermostat, 24W uvb 6% kit, substrate, clay pebbles for the drainage layer and some cork bark branches. I am going to get some Dendrobates auratus and some mourning geckos. Would I be able to use the attached photo as a layer between the substrate and drainage layer? What plants would you recommend for the bioactive enclosure? What kind of expanding foam and aquarium safe silicone would you recommend? How should I go about building the enclosure? Could I please have some useful tips. I don’t want to rush into this and create an inadequate vivarium for either creature. I have watched some videos on creating an enclosure but would like some different perspectives. Any advice is much appreciated thanks in advance.