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    FrogTV Channel: Golden Poison Frogs, Phyllobates terribilis.
    These are the Blackfoot Orange race. They are captive bred
    F2 and exported from Colombia by Tesoros de Colombia.
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    Image in Black and White? That's the night vision view.
    Any glare in night vision mode is from the night vision lighting reflecting in the terrarium glass.
    This species is only visible at or near daylight hours.
    For more info and to leave comments, scroll down.

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    Published on August 4th, 2011 04:28 AM      Number of Views: 239858  
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    Watch frogs live on the internet with FrogTV.

    Currently (December 2013), there is one channel running. What you are seeing is a live snap shot of what's going on in the terrarium. The image updates every 13 seconds.

    If the image is in black and white, the lights are off for that terrarium at the current time, so you are viewing in infrared. Any glare during "night" vision is from the infrared lights reflecting in the terrarium glass. The frogs become active before the lights come on in the morning, so they are sometimes visible even when the lights are out. This is often the case for up to an hour before the lights come on in the morning.

    Channel 1's lights run from about 7:50 am US Eastern time to 7:50 pm US Eastern time. (+/- 1 depending on Daylight Savings).

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    1. John's Avatar
      John - August 4th, 2011
      Channel 1 is just a taste. Channel 2 is the main event!
    1. MikeM670's Avatar
      MikeM670 - August 4th, 2011
      Alright its Frog TV! Late Night Viewing for all of us poor souls who have to work. Now where is my popcorn!!
    1. daziladi's Avatar
      daziladi - August 4th, 2011
      What an awesome idea!!! Great job John & your fabulous brain at work. *applause*
    1. John's Avatar
      John - August 4th, 2011
      Quote Originally Posted by daziladi View Post
      What an awesome idea!!! Great job John & your fabulous brain at work. *applause*
      Thank you!
    1. Griffin's Avatar
      Griffin - August 5th, 2011
      this is neat
    1. John's Avatar
      John - August 6th, 2011
      It's pretty awesome to watch the terribilis calling live over the net just now.
    1. daziladi's Avatar
      daziladi - August 10th, 2011
      Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
      It's pretty awesome to watch the terribilis calling live over the net just now.
      This TV has sound too? I want to do something like this for Chester when we take him on the RV with us. The worlds first RV-traveling-tree-frog lol
    1. John's Avatar
      John - August 10th, 2011
      No, no sound, but you could see the male inflating and deflating his vocal sac.
    1. ViperJr's Avatar
      ViperJr - August 13th, 2011
      Oooh, I see frogs. Shiny Mr. Clare!
    1. BG's Avatar
      BG - August 17th, 2011
      Its a double feature lol got to go get more snacks
    1. Poly's Avatar
      Poly - August 19th, 2011
      Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
      They've been hiding a lot lately, not sure why.
      Oh, I see...

      Your poison dart frogs on channel 2 are amazing, and there very active!
    1. whiffer01's Avatar
      whiffer01 - August 28th, 2011
      i saw the "Epipedobates anthonyi "Rio Saladillo" race, juveniles in new terrarium." on channel one and i saw them moving. this is great.
    1. Poly's Avatar
      Poly - September 7th, 2011
      I see two frogs on channel 1...! Well not exactly sure if there frogs or leaves, but they look like frogs!
    1. John's Avatar
      John - September 13th, 2011
      2 updates to share. Firstly, channel 1 now shows an Oophaga pumilio terrarium with a breeding pair of the Bastimentos race. Secondly, there's a small set of terribilis eggs in the center bottom view of the terribilis terrarium (channel 2). Don't ask me why they laid there of all places.
    1. BG's Avatar
      BG - September 13th, 2011
      John you make it sound so easy Damn you good. Love the tv.
    1. Jimbok3's Avatar
      Jimbok3 - September 18th, 2011
      John I recommend using ustream.com so you can have a actual video feed from the tanks.
    1. ViperJr's Avatar
      ViperJr - September 21st, 2011
      Like John said earlier, he uses survilliance cameras and not actual video cameras. I don't think the streaming host is the problem, he just preferrs pictures. This way, he don't need to have the stream on his computer, since they upload it directly. That's what he said, IF I remember correctly.

      On a side note, justin.tv is often prefferred over ustream.
    1. John's Avatar
      John - September 21st, 2011
      Yeah, live snap shots are far more bandwidth efficient than live streaming, since this is all coming through my home internet connection. Obviously I would love to stream it live but then I would need to buy a separate internet connection just for FrogTV!
    1. ViperJr's Avatar
      ViperJr - September 21st, 2011
      Just an idea, but you could try move to a country with a decent 200/100 Internet connection instead of that crappy US one you are using
    1. John's Avatar
      John - September 21st, 2011
      Haha, no comment. Don't want to offend our American friends.
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