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    Is it possible to keep a diurnal dart frog like D. Leucomelas with red eyes? I've got a 25 gallon tall terrarium with lots of plants and a small shallow pond area and a waterfall. The red eyes have been doing great together, and take turns eating out of the cricket bowl late at night. They are all asleep by 10:00am (except for salsa, who wakes up for a mid-day snack every now and then). My thought was since a dart frog is active in the day, and the red eyes are active at night, that they might be able to coexist in the same terrarium without causing each other any trouble. If it is ok to keep darts and tree frogs together, what species of darts would do well in this arrangement?

    Here's a few pictures of my red eyes in their surroundings. All three pictures are of Salsa. Is she adorable or what?

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    Default Re: Dart frogs and Red Eyes Together?

    I'm just going to quote myself from another thread with this question (although it was about auratus instead of leucomelas):

    Sorry to be that guy, but housing a auratus with a callidryas sounds like a perfectly good recipe for disaster. Not only do they have different care requirements, there's always the danger of slowly poisioning when housing different kind of amphibians together, since they all excrete different serets from their skins which could slowly decreased the other frogs health. Lastly, a large red eye could very well try to eat a small dart frog.

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    Thanks for the info! I never would have thought about the different secretions from their skins harming one another. The way you put it, it sounds kinda like what would happen if you put two different leather corals too close together; you end up with chemical warfare that pollutes the whole tank. And I suppose I could see miss Salsa gobbling up a leucomelas. She is quite voracious when it comes to eating. Sometimes I can't get my hand out of the way fast enough! I've got a spare 29 gallon with a blacked out back panel and 20 lbs of fluorite gravel I could set up as a dart viv. (that's if my seahorses decide to quit having babies).

    Something else just came to mind...if different secretions from other frogs can be harmful, then are they susceptible to human born viruses and bacteria as well? the reason I ask is, I just cleaned their viv yesterday and I had to move them to a holding container to change the substrate, and scrub everything down. I just came down with a nasty case of bronchitis (which is usually viral). Is it possible I may have given it to them?

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