New member - glad to join you

[Kurt]

Welcome aboard.

[charitynbran]

thanx

[Tom Highum]

Welcome, do you have any experience with keeping frogs?

[charitynbran]

not really ive been reaseaching for months my vivarium has been set up for a bot 2 months and reaching perferct temps and humidity levels.. now im curious as to what species to begin with

[Tom Highum]

Oh post pictures of it or describe it I bet somebody on here can give you some ideas of what to put in it. Do know how hard it is to keep the feeders for dart frogs going? I have heard it is challenging.

[charitynbran]

crappy camera but its the best i can do for now... lol

[Tom Highum]

Hmm yeah. Nice vivarium I would think darts or mantellas but make sure you are ready for them and have the feeders set up.

[charitynbran]

more pics

[JubJub326]

thats a great tank setup! what kind of darts do you wanna get?

[charitynbran]

like several species but im stuck between darts and retf..... we are debating which is the best choice

[Crystal6]

Jup. Do you know if they are greener if they hibernate?

I heard frogs also live longer if they hibernate. Not really sure how you go about hibernating them in captivity though. (Especially when you live where it gets 100 below F. Even with wood frogs that sounds dangerous...)

[bdavis31]

I love the selection from generalexotics.com They ship out of Dallas

[Kurt]

like several species but im stuck between darts and Red-Eyed Leaf Frog..... we are debating which is the best choice

Darts are more entertaining as they are diurnal. Red-eyes are strictly nocturnal and they need good ventalation. Darts are the opposite. If you go with darts stick with one species/morph.

Other frogs to consider are clown treefrogs, tiger-legged monkey frogs, reed frogs, or mantellas. With reeds or mantellas stick with one species only. Personally, I like painted or marbled reed frogs, argus reed frogs, Mitchel's reed frogs, powder blue reed frogs, climbing mantellas, golden mantellas, painted mantellas, blue-legged mantellas and Cowan's mantellas. All of these frogs are small, so you will have to raise fruit flies, bean weevils, or some other small insect.