Bronze or Brown Mantellas?

[Geo]

Congrats on your growing mantella nation lol. I plan to get a much larger terrarium in the near future after I get a feel for it via this smaller unit. The fungus is on some wood so I will leave it alone to see what happens unless it gets out of hand. I have included a link to a new video I just finished. I intend to do a better one as soon as the frogs have settled in a bit with better image, audio and info.

[deranged chipmunk]

Congrats on your growing mantella nation lol. I plan to get a much larger terrarium in the near future after I get a feel for it via this smaller unit. The fungus is on some wood so I will leave it alone to see what happens unless it gets out of hand. I have included a link to a new video I just finished. I intend to do a better one as soon as the frogs have settled in a bit with better image, audio and info.

I left you a commenr on YT, but i'll leave it here as well. You did a heck of a job here. I love the depth. The tank looks much bigger than it's true size. Great job!!

[Geo]

Thanks. I decided to try to find safe tropical plants that I can train to mature but remain small. From what I read online the shefflera have been used in bonsai so I thought I would give it a try. I also introduced small clump of various mosses from my other habitat. I am trying to keep things in there that are comparable in size to the frogs themselves. I noticed this morning that there appears to be grass starting to grow and a few tiny buds of something or other. I also have a few small black bugs making an appearance although from where I have no idea as it wasn't on the plants. I will add a photo if I can as I would like to try and identify what they are.

[Geo]

[Geo]

http://www.frogforum.net/groups/mantella-madness.html

[Geo]

Was rather excited this morning. Woke up, turned on the habitat light, misted, came back and dropped off a few tiny bugs, walked by a few minutes later and saw both frogs up front and eating for the first time. I guess you are a frogger when you find this kind of thing exciting. They remained active and then headed to the back where it is heavily planted. They did pose for me for a bit which allowed me to capture a few really good photos.

[Geo]

Well, I discovered that the bug that I was feeding to the matellas, and which they love, is called the larder beetle. Specifically they are very interested in the LB grub. They are very easy to grow as a food if you are familiar with raising meal worms and such. I put some dried dog food in a screened aquarium with some wood and soil from outside, sphagnum moss, rice, cereal and forest bark. Mist it periodically and before you know it you got grubs.

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